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.
Michelle O'Reilly
Social constructionism Naturally occurring data communication by people on the autism spectrum cross-linguistic study of ASD Critical Discursive Psychology ‘I don’t know’ utterances in Autism discourse and conversation analysis how to talk to children with ASD social interactions with ASD discourse analysis disability studies
“A Practical Guide to Social Interaction Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders is a simple, accessible introduction to the study of Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) with discourse-oriented approaches. … This book is an invaluable resource for both new students of discourse and more experienced discursive researchers who are thinking about applying discursive methods to studying ASD. … Overall the book is a nice introduction to the discursive turn in critical mental health and autism research.” (Gates Henderson, Qualitative Methods in Psychology/QMiP Bulletin, Issue 27, 2019)
“The contributors to this welcome book make a strong case, backed up by vivid examples, for the usefulness of very close analysis of the language and behaviour of people with autism spectrum disorder, and the people around them. As a lively record of the state of the art, it will be an invaluable guide to students and researchers.” (Charles Antaki, Loughborough University, UK)