A Comparison of Maternal and Clinician Perception of Communication in Autistic Toddlers.

Misalignment in mothers' and clinical researchers' identification of communication may be in part due to mothers' endorsement of behavioral forms that are not traditionally classified as part of a child's communication repertoire. Findings emphasize the need to work toward designing communication interventions that consider the ways in which clinicians and parents of autistic children each bring their own interpretive frameworks to the early intervention experience.