Supporting children with HFASD: From conversational analysis to single subject research design

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26590256
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Special needs education
• Research Institution: Kanazawa University
• Principal Investigator: Oi Manabu 金沢大学, 学校教育系, 教授 (70116911)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 自閉症 / 会話分析 / 単一事例実験デザイン

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Five boys with high-functioning autism spectrum disorder was interviened to their communicative failure by conducting conversational analysis.　In the case where the boy began irrelevant behavior while the adult talked, conversation was improved when the adult used flowery gestures. In the case where the boy talked without preamble, the conversation was sustained by the adult's straight questions to the boy. In the case where the boy did not respond to the adult's comment with sentence end particle like "no", the boy responded to the adult's comment with end-form sentence. In the case where the boy and the adult failed to negotiate on ending the session, the negotiation was possible when the adult talked with longer sentence which described the message in detail.

Free Research Field

特別支援教育