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Context-Situated Communicative Competence in a Child with Autism Spectrum Disorder
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Tuononen, Katja J. S.; Laitila, Aarno; Kärnä, Eija – International Journal of Special Education, 2014
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is often linked with difficulties in triadic interaction or joint attention. This paper investigated the communicative competencies that children with ASD might have in these skills. We report findings from a pilot case study that focused on a school-aged child with ASD who interacted with his adult co-participants…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Communication Skills, Children
Iconicity Influences How Effectively Minimally Verbal Children with Autism and Ability-Matched Typically Developing Children Use Pictures as Symbols in a Search Task
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Hartley, Calum; Allen, Melissa L. – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2015
Previous word learning studies suggest that children with autism spectrum disorder may have difficulty understanding pictorial symbols. Here we investigate the ability of children with autism spectrum disorder and language-matched typically developing children to contextualize symbolic information communicated by pictures in a search task that did…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Children, Comparative Analysis
Context Influences the Motivation for Stereotypic and Repetitive Behaviour in Children Diagnosed with Intellectual Disability with and without Autism
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Joosten, Annette V.; Bundy, Anita C.; Einfeld, Stewart L. – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2012
Background: Children are motivated to engage in stereotypic and repetitive behaviours for a number of reasons. Their motivation seems to change according to context, but little empirical evidence supports that observation. Interventions designed to reduce the behaviours may be improved by an increased understanding of the interaction between…
Descriptors: Context Effect, Children, Mental Retardation, Autism
Thriving in Youth with Autism Spectrum Disorder and Intellectual Disability
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Weiss, Jonathan A.; Burnham Riosa, Priscilla – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2015
Most research on mental health in individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and intellectual disability (ID) has focused on deficits. We examined individual (i.e., sociocommunicative skills, adaptive behavior, functional cognitive skills) and contextual (i.e., home, school, and community participation) correlates of thriving in 330 youth…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Mental Retardation
Inflexibility as an Interactional Phenomenon: Using Conversation Analysis to Re-Examine a Symptom of Autism
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Muskett, Tom; Perkins, Mick; Clegg, Judy; Body, Richard – Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2010
Many accounts of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) imply that the condition's behavioural "symptoms" are direct reflexes of underlying deficits. In doing so, however, they invariably overlook the social contexts in which symptomatic behaviours occur and are identified as pathological. This study addresses this issue, using conversation…
Descriptors: Play, Autism, Symptoms (Individual Disorders), Social Development
Birthday and Non-Birthday Videotapes: The Importance of Context for the Behavior of Young Children with Autism
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Thorsen, Kara L.; Goldberg, Wendy A.; Osann, Kathryn; Spence, M. Anne – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2008
The present study examines whether children display different frequencies of behaviors at birthday party as compared to non-birthday party settings, and elucidates in which setting behavior is more predictive of later child functioning. Behavior in birthday and non-birthday contexts was examined at 12 and 24 months of age for 56 children with…
Descriptors: Autism, Young Children, Videotape Recordings, Child Behavior