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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Jul 17.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Speech Lang Pathol. 2006 Nov;15(4):353–364. doi: 10.1044/1058-0360(2006/033)

Table 3.

Mother’s expectations for their child’s communication

Percentage of mothers endorsing an
expectation a
Expectation Nonverbal Emerging
Verbal		 Verbal
To communicate/speak 55 38 15
To have speech progress/learn more words 21 38 54
a

Only responses that were identified by at least 25 % of the mothers in at least one of the communication groups are included.