Table 4.
Mean frequency, standard deviation, and total number of communicative functions produced by each group.
| Communicative function | ANAR |
SMI-LCI |
SMI-LCT |
||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M | SD | Total | M | SD | Total | M | SD | Total | |
| Comment | 0. 13 | 0.52 | 2.00 | 16.93 | 11.68 | 254.00 | 22.80 | 14.91 | 228.00 |
| Imitation | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.27 | 2.12 | 77.00 | 0.30 | 0.48 | 21.00 |
| Initiation | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 5.53 | 3.94 | 25.00 | 2.10 | 2.51 | 3.00 |
| Protest | 0.67 | 1.84 | 10.00 | 0.67 | 0.90 | 10.00 | 0.10 | 0.32 | 1.00 |
| Repair | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.80 | 1.32 | 12.00 | 0.80 | 1.03 | 73.00 |
| Request | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 8.60 | 10.09 | 129.00 | 7.90 | 2.88 | 39.00 |
| Response | 3.60 | 6.65 | 54.00 | 15.87 | 6.66 | 238.00 | 14.60 | 10.56 | 146.00 |
| Unknown | 9.53 | 10.82 | 143.00 | 22.33 | 19.33 | 337.00 | 12.30 | 7.85 | 126.00 |
Note. ANAR = children who have anarthria and are unable to speak; SMI-LCI = children with speech motor impairment and language comprehension impairment; SMI-LCT = children with speech motor impairment and typical language comprehension.