Korkiakangas2014

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Korkiakangas2014
BibType ARTICLE
Key Korkiakangas2014
Author(s) Terhi Korkiakangas, John Rae
Title The interactional use of eye-gaze in children with autism spectrum disorders
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Tag(s) Medical EMCA, EMCA, Autism, Gaze, eye-gaze, conversation analysis, social interaction, interactional competence
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Year 2014
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Journal Interaction Studies
Volume 15
Number 2
Pages 233–259
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DOI 10.1075/is.15.2.12kor
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Abstract

The well-known impairments in the social use of eye-gaze by children with autism have been chiefly explored through experimental methods. The present study aims to contribute to the naturalistic analysis of social eye-gaze by applying Conversation Analysis to video recordings of three Finnish children with a diagnosis of autism, each interacting with familiar others in ordinary settings (total 6 hours). The analysis identifies two interactional environments where some children with autism show eye-gaze related competence with respect to gazing at their co-participants: these are when the child carries out an initiating action or a responsive action. We discuss how this qualitative analysis of interactional structure could be extended using quantitative methods and eye-tracking technology in order to develop a better understanding of the disorder.

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