Dickerson-Robins2015
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| BibType | INCOLLECTION |
| Key | Dickerson-Robins2015 |
| Author(s) | Paul Dickerson, Ben Robins |
| Title | Looking or spotting: a conversation analytic perspective on interaction between a humanoid robot, a co-present adult, and a child with |
| Editor(s) | Michelle O'Reilly, Jessica Nina Lester |
| Tag(s) | EMCA, Robots, Human-computer interaction, Autism, AI reference list |
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Year | 2015 |
| Language | English |
| City | London |
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| Pages | 59–78 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.1057/9781137428318_4 |
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| Book title | The Palgrave Handbook of Child Mental Health |
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Abstract
There is a danger that when we look at the behaviour of children with an Autistic Spectrum Condition (ASC) we can wind up behaving like the character searching for his key in a well-known Mulla Nasruddin Sufi tale. In The Lamp and Key the protagonist is described as searching in his garden for a key that he had lost inside his house. When a neighbour asked why he searched in the garden, when the key had been lost indoors, he replied, ‘Because there is much more light here than in my house’. This chapter draws on conversation analytic ideas to suggest that checklists and coding schedules can be a bit like Mulla Nasruddin’s lamp — perhaps highlighting some interesting behaviours at the expense of important others that lie elsewhere, outside of that which the list illuminates. In examining these issues, the chapter will consider some of the potential limitations of using checklists to either make diagnoses of ASCs or to measure the manifestation of observable behaviours that are associated with ASCs. This is particularly important in light of contemporary debates regarding the classification of autism in terms of the language of mental health and disability (see O’Reilly, Karim, & Lester, Chapter 14, this volume).
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