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Teacher Responses to the Communication Attempts of Children With Autism
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posted on 2023-05-16, 17:10 authored by Keen, D, Sigafoos, J, Woodyatt, GWe assessed teacher responses to the communicative attempts of children with autism. Teachers were first interviewed using the Inventory of Potential Communicative Acts (IPCA) to identify behaviors in each child's repertoire that the teachers considered to be communicative. Interview results suggested that the teachers interpreted many of the children's prelinguistic gestures, body movements, and facial expressions, as forms of communication. Naturalistic observations were then conducted in the child's classroom to determine how teachers responded to the children's identified forms of prelinguistic behaviors. The results of these naturalistic observations suggested that the teachers often did not respond to the child's prelinguistic behaviors in ways that acknowledged their communicative intent. Implications of the results on the child's communication development and for intervention efforts are discussed. © 2005 Springer Science + Business Media, Inc.
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Publication title
Journal of Developmental and Physical DisabilitiesVolume
17Pagination
19-33ISSN
1056-263XDepartment/School
Faculty of EducationPublisher
Plenum USPlace of publication
United StatesRepository Status
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