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.
Chapter 1. Autism Spectrum Disorder: An introduction; Karim.- Chapter 2. Social constructionism, Autism Spectrum Disorder and the discursive approaches; OReilly and Lester.- Chapter 3. Naturally occurring data versus researcher generated data; Lester, Muskett, & OReilly.- Chapter 4. Using conversation analysis to assess the language and communication of people on the autism spectrum: A case-based tutorial; Muskett.- Chapter 5. Understanding the autistic individual: A practical guide to discourse analysis; Charlotte Brownlow, Lindsay ODell & Tanya Machin.- Chapter 7. How to use research supervision in the development of a discursive psychology or conversation analysis project to study Autism; Smart and Denman.- PART II.- Chapter 8. The interaction is the work: rehabilitating risk in a forensic patient with Autism Spectrum Disorder and Learning DisablC-
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