Naturalistic Observations of Nonverbal Children with Autism: A Study of Intentional Communicative Acts in the Classroom

Table 2

Frequency counts for both communication function and the teacher response for each participant.

	Part. 1	Part. 2	Part. 3	Part. 4	Part. 5	Part. 6
Communication function
Evoked	27	7	17	17	8	16
Request	3	0	4	1	2	1
Reject	3	0	5	2	3	4
Other	21	6	8	14	3	11
Spontaneous	15	14	11	3	5	15
Request	8	9	8	3	4	9
Reject	0	0	1	0	0	4
Other	7	5	2	0	1	2
Teacher response
Evoked	27	7	17	17	8	16
Deny	0	0	1	0	0	2
Acknowledge	11	5	4	9	1	6
No response	8	2	9	6	3	6
Delivered	6	0	1	0	2	1
Spontaneous	15	14	11	3	5	15
Deny	3	3	2	1	0	1
Acknowledge	2	2	1	0	2	1
No response	1	5	7	0	2	4
Delivered	7	2	1	1	1	7

Notes. Part.: participant.