The Modified- Classroom ObservationScheduletoMeasureIntenticnaCommunication( M-COSMIC): EvaluationofReliabilityandValidity

Request for object/
action/ help

^π Use this code for any communicative act where an object, toy, help with a toy
etc., is requested, whether this is spontaneously initiated by the child or
prompted by an adult

^π In cases where a request has been made, and the communication partner asks
for a repeat or rehearsal of the request, do not assign this code for subsequent
requests_______________________________________________________________________________

Refusal/Protest

^π This code may be used to classify a range of behaviours from appropriate
refusal to inappropriate screaming as a protest/ non-compliance. Acts used to
refuse an undesired object or request, or a command for another to stop an
undesired action should receive this code.

^a E.g., crying, shouting, throwing, pulling away, pushing away._____________

Compliance

Acts of cooperation with communicator.

Code when the child is following instructions/ firm suggestions (also within play) to
carry out an action (e.g., pass me the pizza; child passes; sit down; child sits down)

Social interaction (dyadic)

Request for social
routine

^π This code is used when the child makes a request for a game or activity that is
clearly social or interpersonal in nature - such as tickling, hugging or other
informal social routines

^π Also use this code when the child is attempting to have the interaction
continue (e.g., requests to be tickled a second and third time)

^π This code may be used when the request is for a formal game or activity, for a
game of chess, for example, but not where the child is simply requesting that the
adult facilitates an activity that will not involve them, such as switching the
computer on, or reaching a toy that is on a high shelf_______________________________

Showing off/
Directing attention to
___________self__________

^π Acts used to attract another's attention to oneself

^π Seeking attention or calling someone for play, love attention (Dore, 1977) e.g.,
‘Hey’; ‘watch’ to direct adult’s attention; ‘can I ?’_________________________________

Acknowledgement

^π Acts/verbal acts used to indicate notice of another person's previous statement
or action; involves the child's focusing attention on or shifting attention to the
interactant

^π   Yes/ Y ep/ No/OK/mmmhhmm/ thanks responses to questions or utterances

(e.g., ‘Is this yours; Do you want to?’)

^π ‘Done it’; ‘Excuse me’; (if trying to get attention drawn to self and not object);

sing song for attention to self_________________________________________________________

Joint attention (triadic)_____________________________________________________________________________________________

Comment

^π Comment is coded when a child verbally or nonverbally refers to an event,
object or action in order to share attention with a partner.

^π This may include pointing out, or a verbal description of, a picture, object or
event in order to direct another’s attention to that object, event or topic._______________

Request information

^π Acts used to seek information, explanations or clarifications about an entity,
event or previous utterance; includes wh-questions and other utterances with a
rising intonation contour

^π It may also include requesting information or clarification. However, if a child
is clearly making a request for the object in question, albeit indirectly, code as a
request for object_____________________________________________________________________

Role________________________________________________________________________________________

Initiation

^α Code initiation when the child spontaneously initiates an interaction. Initiation