Korkiakangas2014
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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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