Co-Participation in Multimodal Interactions Involving Persons with Autism Spectrum Disorders
| Number: | P77 |
| Organizer: | Rae, John |
| Co-Organizer: | Penny Stribling-Hyams |
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| The aim of this panel is to explore a range of multimodal interactions involving people with autism spectrum disorders. Such people often display qualitative impairments in language (both verbal and non-verbal) and social interaction skills; together with a propensity for restricted and repetitive behaviour. Previous research into multimodal interaction in autism has typically been quantitative in design, and has focused upon the activities of the disordered person in relative isolation. The scope of such research scope has been relatively limited, for example focusing on deictic pointing through drawing in paradigms used in research on infants. This narrow focus partially reflects the general dearth of research on gestural and referential activity in middle childhood. The panel seeks to contribute to a growing corpus of CA work, which has considered how persons with autism co-participate in both domestic and institutional interactions with familiar carers (Dickerson, Stribling, and Rae, 2007; Maynard, 2005; Ochs, Kremer-Sadlik, Gainer Sirota, and Solomon, 2004; Wootton, 1999). Multimodal aspects of interaction are an increasingly important focus of the analysis, especially in activities involving more learning-disabled participants with autism. Papers in this panel will use videotaped data to explore the sequential organization and use of multimodal resources involving people with ASD in a number of settings such as interactions with parents, tutors, teaching assistants and with therapy dogs. Across these settings, a common analytical concern is the relationship between vocal and embodied behaviour, especially eye-gaze. |
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