In this innovative book on autism and gaze from a multimodal
interaction perspective, Terhi Korkiakangas examines the role of
gaze in everyday situations, asking why eye contact matters, and
considering the implications of this crucial question for autism.
Since persons on the autism spectrum tend to use it differently and
might not engage in eye contact in social situations, gaze is a
crucial topic for understanding autism, yet we know surprisingly
little about this topic in a real-world context, beyond
psychological experiments and the research lab. Drawing on her
research on authentic video-recorded social interactions,
Korkiakangas shows how a multimodal interaction perspective can
shed new light on gaze: what an instance of gaze does, and when,
why, and for whom gaze 'matters', from both children on the autism
spectrum and their social partners' perspective, including teachers
and parents. Grounded in the interactional tradition of
conversation analysis, the multimodal interaction perspective
offers a major contribution to our understanding of autism by
examining communication beyond talk and linguistic resources.
Communication, Gaze and Autism considers both mutual gaze and gaze
aversion during talk or silence, alongside facial expressions,
gestures, and other body movements, to understand what gaze is used
for, and to rethink 'eye contact'. The book includes a
methodological introduction, practical tools for doing multimodal
interaction research, and empirical findings. It also considers the
voices of those people on the autism spectrum from the blogosphere,
who suggest that eye contact has less significance for them and
represents a communication difference, rather than a deficit. This
book is designed for anyone with an academic, professional or
personal interest in autism. It will particularly appeal to senior
undergraduate and graduate students, researchers and practitioners
in the fields of communication, social interaction and autism.
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