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Huws, Jaci C.; Jones, Robert S. P. – British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2011
Past research indicates that newspaper representations of developmental disability reinforce negative stereotypes. The aim of this study was to examine depictions of autism in British newspapers. A qualitative content and discourse analysis of newspaper accounts of autism was conducted over four 1-month time points, every 3 years, between May 1999…
Descriptors: Stereotypes, Autism, Developmental Disabilities, Discourse Analysis
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Toomey, Janice; Adams, Lawrence A. – New Directions for Child Development, 1995
Briefly reviews current knowledge about the nature of limits of intersubjectivity (ability to acquire and manage representations of self and other through social experience) in autistic children. Describes an observational study of verbal autistic children indicating the presence of intersubjectivity, but with little of the verbal social…
Descriptors: Autism, Child Language, Conflict, Discourse Analysis