Assistant Professor San Francisco State University
This session will discuss neurodiversity-affirming approaches to supporting peer interactions for autistic children. The presenters will introduce the conversation analysis (CA) method of assessing social communicative competence and use case illustrations to demonstrate its potential. The session will include a tutorial of CA with case illustration and embedded activities to practice the basic procedures of CA.
Learning Outcomes:
After completing this session, you will be able to:
describe the principles of neurodiversity-affirming approaches to supporting peer interactions
describe why a neurodiversity-affirming approach requires a situated and interactionally focused understanding of social communicative competence
describe how CA can be a theoretically grounded and systematic method for understanding a child’s social communicative competence
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