title: A protocol for the assessment of prelinguistic intentional communication.
abstract: This article presents a protocol for the assessment of prelinguistic intentional communication with young and/or severely language-impaired children. A set of tasks and scoring procedures are presented for the elicitation of proto-declarative and proto-imperative behaviors. Data are presented that attest to the reliable utilization of this protocol.
mesh_terms: D002663:Child Language; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003142:Communication; D005868:Gestures; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007805:Language Development Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis*; D014705:Verbal Behavior; D014825:Vocabulary