A Practical Guide to Social Interaction Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders

1. Introduction: Mental Health, Mental Illness, and a Critical Position on Autism Spectrum Disorder
Michelle O’Reilly, Jessica Nina Lester, Tom Muskett

Part I. Practical Steps for Doing DA and CA Research in ASD

2. Autism Spectrum Disorder: An Introduction
Khalid Karim

3. Social Constructionism, Autism Spectrum Disorder, and the Discursive Approaches
Michelle O’Reilly, Jessica Nina Lester

4. Naturally Occurring Data Versus Researcher-Generated Data
Jessica Nina Lester, Tom Muskett, Michelle O’Reilly

5. Using Conversation Analysis to Assess the Language and Communication of People on the Autism Spectrum: A Case-Based Tutorial
Tom Muskett

6. Understanding the Autistic Individual: A Practical Guide to Critical Discourse Analysis
Charlotte Brownlow, Lindsay O’Dell, Tanya Machin

7. Conversation Analysis with Children with an Autism Spectrum Disorder and Limited Verbal Ability
Paul Dickerson, Ben Robins

8. Student and Supervisor Experiences of Learning and Teaching Conversation Analysis and Discursive Psychology for Autism Spectrum Disorder Focused Research: A Reflective Approach
Cordet Smart, Katie Denman

Part II. Examples of Empirical ASD Research

9. The Interaction Is the Work: Rehabilitating Risk in a Forensic Patient with Autism Spectrum Disorder and Learning Disability
Sushie Dobbinson

10. Children’s Use of “I Don’t Know” During Clinical Evaluations for Autism Spectrum Disorder: Responses to Emotion Questions
Trini Stickle, Waverly Duck, Douglas W. Maynard

11. Discursive Methods and the Cross-linguistic Study of ASD: A Conversation Analysis Case Study of Repetitive Language in a Malay-Speaking Child
Nor Azrita Mohamed Zain, Tom Muskett, Hilary Gardner

12. Conversation Analysis: A Tool for Analysing Interactional Difficulties Faced by Children with Asperger’s Syndrome
Johanna Rendle-Short

13. Animating Characters and Experiencing Selves: A Look at Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder Constructing Fictional Storyboards with Typically Developing Peers
Kristen Bottema-Beutel, Laura Sterponi, Rebecca Louick

Nyckelord: Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Personality and Social Psychology, Discourse Analysis, Disability Studies