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  • Verifying Teacher Perceptions of the Potential Communicative Acts of Children with Autism

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    Keen, D
    Woodyatt, G
    Sigafoos, J
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    Keen, Deb A.
    Year published
    2002
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    The authors sought to verify teacher perceptions of prelinguistic behavior in eight children with autism. Teachers were first interviewed using the structured protocol of the Inventory of Potential Communicative Acts. The results indicated that the teachers interpreted many of the children's gestures, body movements, and facial expressions as if these were forms of communication. Naturalistic and structured observations were then undertaken to verify whether these teacher-identified behaviors did in fact seem to serve a communicative function. Observational data provided some evidence that teachers responded to such acts as ...
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    The authors sought to verify teacher perceptions of prelinguistic behavior in eight children with autism. Teachers were first interviewed using the structured protocol of the Inventory of Potential Communicative Acts. The results indicated that the teachers interpreted many of the children's gestures, body movements, and facial expressions as if these were forms of communication. Naturalistic and structured observations were then undertaken to verify whether these teacher-identified behaviors did in fact seem to serve a communicative function. Observational data provided some evidence that teachers responded to such acts as forms of communication. This suggests that an interview protocol may be one way to document the form and communication function of existing prelinguistic behaviors in children with autism who are at the early stages of communication development.
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    Journal Title
    Communication Disorders Quarterly
    Volume
    23
    Issue
    3
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1177/15257401020230030201
    Subject
    Clinical Sciences
    Specialist Studies in Education
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/45037
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