
Clinician guide
How to Assess Topic Initiation, Continuation, and Change
Assess conversation topics using initiations, related contributions, explicit and implicit shifts, reintroduction, closure, choice, partner follow, and context.
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Clinician guide
Assess conversation topics using initiations, related contributions, explicit and implicit shifts, reintroduction, closure, choice, partner follow, and context.

Clinician guide
Measure conversation timing with partner-turn offset, response onset, device composition, pauses, overlap, interruption, repair, and context-specific clocks.

Clinician guide
Define person-authored conversation turns across speech, AAC, text, sign, gesture, media, shared action, pause, pass, overlap, repair, and partner response.

Clinician guide
Define a conversation-assessment question using the participation decision, partners, activity, communication modes, turns, topics, repair, timing, and context.

Clinician guide
Document joint-attention evidence with shared-event, bid, response, access, opportunity, partner, engagement, alternative-purpose, timing, and design-limit details.

Clinician guide
Reassess joint attention after partner, context, or access changes by preserving phases, repairing conditions, and collecting focused follow-up evidence.

Clinician guide
Assess whether partners create accessible opportunities, notice and follow client bids, wait, acknowledge, repair breakdowns, follow topics, and avoid overprompting.

Clinician guide
Assess joint engagement using accessible activity, choice, contribution, communication, clear timing, disengagement, partner behavior, and valued outcomes.

Clinician guide
Measure joint-attention opportunities, accessible bids, client responses, partner acknowledgment, repair, continuation, invalidity, prompting, and agreement.

Clinician guide
Separate sharing, requesting, and information seeking by preserving messages, referents, desired outcomes, information gaps, partner responses, and mixed purposes.

Clinician guide
Assess person-authored joint-attention bids using eligible events, accessible communication, partner response, prompt status, topic choice, and engagement.

Clinician guide
Assess joint-attention responses through speech, AAC, gesture, movement, action, and acknowledgment while separating referent access from face gaze.