A Practical Guide to Social Interaction Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders

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This book introduces a novel approach for examining language and communication in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) - discourse and conversation analysis. The authors offer a set of very different perspectives on these complex issues than are typically presented in psychological and clinical work. Emerging from a range of social scientific fields, discourse and conversation analysis involve fine-grained qualitative analysis of naturally-occurring, rather than laboratory-based, interaction, enabling broad applications. Presented in two parts, this innovative volume first provides a set of pedagogical chapters to develop the reader's knowledge and skills in using these approaches, before moving to showcase the use of discursive methods through a range of original contributions from world-leading scholars, drawn from a range of disciplines including sociology, academic and clinical psychology, speech and language therapy, critical disability studies and social theory, and medicine and psychiatry. Front Matter ....Pages i-xxi Introduction: Mental Health, Mental Illness, and a Critical Position on Autism Spectrum Disorder (Michelle O’Reilly, Jessica Nina Lester, Tom Muskett)....Pages 1-30 Front Matter ....Pages 31-31 Autism Spectrum Disorder: An Introduction (Khalid Karim)....Pages 33-60 Social Constructionism, Autism Spectrum Disorder, and the Discursive Approaches (Michelle O’Reilly, Jessica Nina Lester)....Pages 61-86 Naturally Occurring Data Versus Researcher-Generated Data (Jessica Nina Lester, Tom Muskett, Michelle O’Reilly)....Pages 87-116 Using Conversation Analysis to Assess the Language and Communication of People on the Autism Spectrum: A Case-Based Tutorial (Tom Muskett)....Pages 117-140 Understanding the Autistic Individual: A Practical Guide to Critical Discourse Analysis (Charlotte Brownlow, Lindsay O’Dell, Tanya Machin)....Pages 141-165 Conversation Analysis with Children with an Autism Spectrum Disorder and Limited Verbal Ability (Paul Dickerson, Ben Robins)....Pages 167-191 Student and Supervisor Experiences of Learning and Teaching Conversation Analysis and Discursive Psychology for Autism Spectrum Disorder Focused Research: A Reflective Approach (Cordet Smart, Katie Denman)....Pages 193-217 Front Matter ....Pages 219-219 The Interaction Is the Work: Rehabilitating Risk in a Forensic Patient with Autism Spectrum Disorder and Learning Disability (Sushie Dobbinson)....Pages 221-246 Children’s Use of “I Don’t Know” During Clinical Evaluations for Autism Spectrum Disorder: Responses to Emotion Questions (Trini Stickle, Waverly Duck, Douglas W. Maynard)....Pages 247-273 Discursive Methods and the Cross-linguistic Study of ASD: A Conversation Analysis Case Study of Repetitive Language in a Malay-Speaking Child (Nor Azrita Mohamed Zain, Tom Muskett, Hilary Gardner)....Pages 275-296 Conversation Analysis: A Tool for Analysing Interactional Difficulties Faced by Children with Asperger’s Syndrome (Johanna Rendle-Short)....Pages 297-323 Animating Characters and Experiencing Selves: A Look at Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder Constructing Fictional Storyboards with Typically Developing Peers (Kristen Bottema-Beutel, Laura Sterponi, Rebecca Louick)....Pages 325-349 Back Matter ....Pages 351-362