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Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders

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Typical and Atypical Pragmatic Functioning of ASD Children and Their Partners: A Study of Oppositional Episodes in Everyday Interactions

Auteurs: Marie-Hélène Plumet, Edy Veneziano

Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders | Uitgave 1/2015

Abstract

Pragmatic functioning of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) children is rarely examined in socially-meaningful contexts. This study investigates the way oppositional episodes are handled in such contexts by 25 families, 10 with ASD and 15 with typically-developing children. Oppositions occur whenever someone protests, refuses or denies someone else’s action, request or statement. The analysis focuses on justifications accounting for the opposition and on their immediate persuasive effect. Analyses of 1,065 oppositional episodes show no differences in justifications among partners and children, except for ASD children with a verbal age 3–4 years, who justify less than their matched controls. The persuasive effect of justifications on children and on partners differs according to their group and verbal age. Implications of the study and future perspectives are discussed.

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For Mann–Whitney and Wilcoxon signed-rank tests, we report Z values when the two samples contain 25 subjects, and respectively U or T values when the two samples contain either 5 or 10 subjects.

For all the following analyses, one-tailed tests were used since directional hypotheses were tested (mean insistence rate after justified FOMs < mean insistence rate after unjustified FOMs).

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Titel: Typical and Atypical Pragmatic Functioning of ASD Children and Their Partners: A Study of Oppositional Episodes in Everyday Interactions
Auteurs: Marie-Hélène Plumet
Edy Veneziano
Publicatiedatum: 01-01-2015
Uitgeverij: Springer US
Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders / Uitgave 1/2015
Print ISSN: 0162-3257
Elektronisch ISSN: 1573-3432
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-014-2164-0

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