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Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders

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01-12-2012 | Original Paper

Dialogic Linkage and Resonance in Autism

Auteurs: R. Peter Hobson, Jessica A. Hobson, Rosa García-Pérez, John Du Bois

Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders | Uitgave 12/2012

Abstract

We evaluated how children with autism make linguistic adjustments when talking with someone else. We devised two novel measures to assess (a) overall conversational linkage and (b) utterance-by-utterance resonance within dialogue between an adult and matched participants with and without autism (n = 12 per group). Participants with autism were less able to establish ‘cognitive linkage’ with an interlocutor. As predicted, only among children with autism was there a positive correlation between the ability to link in with speaker’s meanings and ratings of emotional connectedness with the conversational partner. Participants with autism were not less likely to show a basic form of dialogic resonance across successive utterances (the ‘frame grab’), but more often elaborated their responses in an atypical manner.

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Titel: Dialogic Linkage and Resonance in Autism
Auteurs: R. Peter Hobson
Jessica A. Hobson
Rosa García-Pérez
John Du Bois
Publicatiedatum: 01-12-2012
Uitgeverij: Springer US
Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders / Uitgave 12/2012
Print ISSN: 0162-3257
Elektronisch ISSN: 1573-3432
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-012-1528-6

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