Opportunities for communication in classrooms serving children with developmental disabilities
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Documented the number and types of opportunities for communication provided by teachers in seven classrooms for children with developmental disabilities and by teachers of nonhandicapped preschoolers in a day care center. In the special education settings, less than 14% of the more than 6,000 observation intervals contained an opportunity for communication. Most opportunities involved naming an object or event followed in frequency by opportunities to request, answer, and imitate. Similar results were obtained in the day care center. In the special education classrooms, a strong positive correlation was found between a child's existing communication skills and the number of opportunities received. Results suggest that these teachers did incorporate opportunities for communication into classroom activities.
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