Sterponi Laura, de Kirby Kenton
Institute of Human Development, University of California, Berkeley, 5643 Tolman Hall, Berkeley, CA, 94720-1670, USA.
Graduate School of Education, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA.
J Autism Dev Disord. 2016 Feb;46(2):394-405. doi: 10.1007/s10803-015-2679-z.
In this article, we leverage theoretical insights and methodological guidelines of discourse analytic scholarship to re-examine language phenomena typically associated with autism. Through empirical analysis of the verbal behavior of three children with autism, we engage the question of how prototypical features of autistic language-notably pronoun atypicality, pragmatic deficit, and echolalia-might conceal competencies and interactional processes that are largely invisible in mainstream research. Our findings offer a complex picture of children with autism in their use of language to communicate, interact and experience others. Such a picture also deepens our understanding of the interactional underpinnings of autistic children's speech. Finally, we describe how our findings offer fruitful suggestions for clinical intervention.
在本文中,我们运用话语分析学术研究的理论见解和方法指南,重新审视通常与自闭症相关的语言现象。通过对三名自闭症儿童言语行为的实证分析,我们探讨了自闭症语言的典型特征——尤其是代词使用异常、语用缺陷和模仿言语——如何可能掩盖了主流研究中基本看不见的能力和互动过程。我们的研究结果呈现了自闭症儿童在使用语言进行交流、互动和体验他人方面的复杂图景。这样的图景也加深了我们对自闭症儿童言语互动基础的理解。最后,我们描述了我们的研究结果如何为临床干预提供了富有成效的建议。