Journal article
The communicative function of question production in autistic children
Journal of autism and developmental disorders, Vol.12(1), pp.57-69
03/1982
DOI: 10.1007/BF01531674
PMID: 7096261
Abstract
Six children diagnosed as autistic and who also were reported to be using questions inappropriately in their conversations with adults were each placed in a conversational context in which the adult responses to their questions were systematically varied. The dependent variable was the occurrence and amount of appropriate conversational continuation associated with each type of adult response. Differential listener response did affect the occurrence of conversational continuation and to a lesser degree the amount of continuation. These data were interpreted to support the hypothesis that repetitive questioning in this population serves the communicative function of conversation initiation. Furthermore, it appears that the autistic conversants lack the conversational management skills to maintain the conversation following the listener's answer to the question.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- The communicative function of question production in autistic children
- Creators
- R HurtigS EnsrudJ B Tomblin
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of autism and developmental disorders, Vol.12(1), pp.57-69
- Publisher
- United States
- DOI
- 10.1007/BF01531674
- PMID
- 7096261
- ISSN
- 0162-3257
- eISSN
- 1573-3432
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 03/1982
- Academic Unit
- Communication Sciences and Disorders; Iowa Neuroscience Institute
- Record Identifier
- 9984070776502771
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