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21-02-2018 | Letter to the Editor
Response to ‘No Evidence Against Sketch Reinstatement of Context, Verbal Labels or Registered Intermediaries’
Auteurs:
Lucy A. Henry, Laura Crane, Gilly Nash, Zoe Hobson, Mimi Kirke-Smith, Rachel Wilcock
Gepubliceerd in:
Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
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Uitgave 7/2018
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Excerpt
Dando and colleagues’ letter regarding our recently published paper (Henry et al.
2017) calls for caution before rejecting investigative interviewing techniques for children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). In this response we highlight that this important message was, in fact, emphasised in the original paper. We also provide additional information about our methodology and results to further substantiate our conclusions. Importantly, we highlight that these null results do not mean that these techniques should be rejected for children with ASD. We acknowledge that beneficial effects of these investigative interview adaptations may not be in relation to the parameters measured in our study—volume and accuracy of recall (also see Maras and Bowler
2010; Maras et al.
2014, for data suggesting that alternative interview techniques may not improve recall in autistic adults). We further acknowledge that some of the interview adaptations investigated may actually be the critical factor in determining whether a child with ASD can give any evidence at all. …