Overview
- Highlights the economic consequences of a disabling culture
- Aims to layer and complicate the discussions that surround autism in schools, health clinics and society
- Illustrates social construction of autism in educational and historical discourses
Part of the book series: The Language of Mental Health (TLMH)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Practical Steps for Doing DA and CA Research in ASD
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Examples of Empirical ASD Research
Keywords
- 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
About this book
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.
Reviews
“With its rich and innovative content, this book is a comprehensive reference to the range of language-focused approaches currently being used in research on neurological disorders. Newcomers from related fields also will find much of value in this collection, which hopefully will spark an increase in the number and quality of related projects.” (Yanhua Cheng, Discourse Studies, Vol. 20 (05), October, 2018)
“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)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Jessica Nina Lester is an Assistant Professor of Inquiry Methodology in the School of Education at Indiana University, USA. She teaches research methods courses, including discourse analysis, with much research focused on the study and development of qualitative methodologies and methods.
Tom Muskett is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology at Leeds Beckett University, UK. He has worked in clinical and educational roles with children with diagnoses of autism and their families, and previously led a clinical training programme at the University of Sheffield, UK.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: A Practical Guide to Social Interaction Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders
Editors: Michelle O'Reilly, Jessica Nina Lester, Tom Muskett
Series Title: The Language of Mental Health
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59236-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-59235-4Published: 27 November 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-95508-4Published: 30 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-59236-1Published: 16 November 2017
Series ISSN: 2946-4374
Series E-ISSN: 2946-4382
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 362
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 6 illustrations in colour
Topics: Clinical Psychology, Personality and Social Psychology, Discourse Analysis, Disability Studies