. 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 5.

Mother’s perceived roles

	Percentage of mothers endorsing each role^a
Role	Nonverbal	Emerging Verbal	Verbal
Caregiver	76	85	54
Teacher	34	62	15
Advocate	38	23	15
Therapist	28	8	31
Case manager/information seeker	14	31	23

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