Practical analysis of communication trouble cases in clinical and educational situations: Toward mutual dissolution of attribution bias

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26590122
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Social welfare and social work studies
• Research Institution: Ritsumeikan University
• Principal Investigator: OKAMOTO Masashi 立命館大学, 文学部, 教授 (30424310)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 山川 百合子 茨城県立医療大学, 保健医療学部, 教授 (40381420) ; 松嶋 健 広島大学, 社会科学研究科, 准教授 (40580882)
• Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha): MATSUSHIMA Takeshi 広島大学, 社会科学研究科, 准教授 (40580882)
• Research Collaborator: KOTANI Izumi ; MATSUOKA Keiko
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 発達障害 / 自閉スペクトラム症 / ディスコミュニケーション

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research aimed to propose a new communicative health care method by rethinking some types of communication trouble, which are called in Japanese-made English, ‘discommunication,’ faced by people with mental illnesses or developmental disorders, as a matter of the relationship between them and their surrounding people. As a result of the research, it has become clear that such discommunication situations are deeply involved in the cognitive and sensory differences between people with communication disabilities and their surrounding people. Moreover, it is strongly suggested that insufficient comprehension of such ‘impairments’ produces their ‘disablities,’ coupling with institutional rigidity of the medical and educational system and the physical environment, which reinforces and fixes those situations as social handicap.

Free Research Field

コミュニケーション研究、認知語用論