Inflexibility as an Interactional Phenomenon: Using Conversation Analysis to Re-Examine a Symptom of Autism

Autor/inn/en	Muskett, Tom; Perkins, Mick; Clegg, Judy; Body, Richard
Titel	Inflexibility as an Interactional Phenomenon: Using Conversation Analysis to Re-Examine a Symptom of Autism
Quelle	In: Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 24 (2010) 1, S.1-16 (16 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0269-9206
DOI	10.3109/02699200903281739
Schlagwörter	Play; Autism; Symptoms (Individual Disorders); Social Development; Behavior Problems; Interpersonal Communication; Pervasive Developmental Disorders; Children; Child Behavior; Interaction; Social Environment; Context Effect; Foreign Countries; United Kingdom + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Spiel; Autismus; Psychiatrische Symptomatik; Soziale Entwicklung; Interpersonale Kommunikation; Child; Kind; Kinder; Interaktion; Soziales Umfeld; Ausland; Großbritannien
Abstract	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 analysis (CA) to examine the emergence of inflexibility, a behavioural trait symptomatic of ASD, during play involving an adult and diagnosed child. We argue that "inflexibility" is the product of the child's strategic attempts to retain control over the unfolding interaction, within a context where such attempts breach normative expectations about adult-child play. Furthermore, it demonstrates that the adult does not resist these attempts, on occasion even explicitly providing opportunity for subsequent inflexibility. This challenges the assumption that ASD's behavioural profile solely represents the endpoint of underlying deficit, and demonstrates how "non-impaired" speakers can be implicated in the manifestation of symptomatic behaviours. (Contains 9 extracts.) (As Provided).
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