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Journal on Developmental Disabilities
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| Volume 9, No. 2 | other issues |
| Special Issue: Perspectives on the Autistic Spectrum Disorders | |
Behaviour is Communication: Nonverbal Communicative Behaviour in Students with Autism and Instructors' ResponsivityNancy L. Freeman, Adrienne Perry, James M. Bebko |
Articles / Abstracts Advances in Understanding Autism Relationship Between Autism and Fragile X Accessing and Assessing Intelligence Challenges in Identifying Mental Health Issues Best Practices and Practical Strategies Teaching Prerequisite Matching and Object Skills Children & Adolescents: The Role of a Crisis Service Community Participation in an Admission Process Intensive Early Intervention Program for Children |
AbstractPeople with autism have severe communication deficits, with many functioning at a prelinguistic level. Consequently, it is important for adults to recognize and respond to nonverbal behaviours as communicative. In the present study, students with autism were videotaped during a social interaction with a familiar instructor. Communicative behaviours and their perceived functions were later identified by the instructor. Trained coders also identified potentially communicative behaviours and the instructors' responsivity to these behaviours. Overall, students displayed a wide range of nonverbal communicative behaviours, serving a wide range of perceived communicative functions at a high frequency and instructors responded to these behaviours at a high rate.
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