A Practical Guide to Social Interaction Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349955086
• ISBN13: 9781349955084
• Release Date: August 2018
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 362 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.3"