Conversation Analysis Research in Autism (CARA)

Welcome to the CARA research group.

News Bulletin:

We would like to draw your attention to a special issue that is now published in the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders that focuses on DA and CA. The special issue can be found at http://link.springer.com/journal/10803/46/2/page/1
We are pleased that many of our CARA members submitted a paper and had this accepted in the issue. List of papers

Coming soon – Book for students

O’Reilly, M., Lester, J.N., and Muskett, T. (Eds). A practical guide to doing social interaction research in Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD): Communication, discourse and conversation analysis. Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan
(Part of the book series: The Language of Mental Health)

Contributions made from our CARA members and their colleagues.

We welcome new members; so if you would like to join our group please email us. We are also happy to advertise research projects, conferences, books or other activities if they relate to CA/DA and autism. If you have something for the newsfeed, please drop us an email. If you have a new related publication, then we would like to add it to your membership profile.

Dr Michelle O’Reilly Director CARA Brief bio Email Publications related to autism Home Page		Dr Jessica Lester Associate Director CARA Brief bio Email Publications related to autism Home Page

Expert Clinical Panel

Dr. Khalid Karim Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist (Senior Teaching Fellow, University of Leicester) Brief bio Email Publications related to autism Home page		Dr. Tom Muskett Speech & Language Therapist (Leeds Beckett University) Brief bio Email Publications related to autism Home page
Dr. Nikki Kiyimba Senior Clinical Psychologist (Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation) Brief bio Publications related to child mental health		Dr. Sushie Dobbinson Lead Forensic Speech & Language Therapist Brief bio Email Publications related to autism
Dr. Katie Denman Clinical Psychologist Brief Bio Publications related to Autism Email

Frequently Asked Questions

• What is autism?
• What is CA?
• What is DA?
• What are the similarities/differences between CA and DA?
• Why is CA and/or DA useful for researching autism?
• What is the Jefferson transcription system?

Members List

Gail Fox Adams Brief Bio Email	Henry Angulo Brief Bio Email
Kristen Bottema-Beutel Brief Bio Email Publications related to autism	Louise Bradley Brief Bio Email
Dr. Charlotte Brownlow Brief bio Email Publications related to autism Home Page	Rachel Chen Brief Bio Email
Paul Dickerson Brief Bio Email Home page	Hannah Dostal Brief bio Email Publications related to autism
Alison Drewett Brief bio Email	Konstantinos Georgiou Brief Bio Email Publications related to autism
Stella Huang Brief Bio Email	Eliza Maciejewska Brief bio Email
Prof. Douglas Maynard Brief bio Email Publications related to autism Home page	T A Marie McDonald Brief bio
Miss Rosanna Murray Brief bio Email	Dr. Lindsay O'Dell Brief bio Email Publications related to autism Home page
Professor Alison Pilnick Brief Bio Publications related to autism Home Page	Dr. John Rae Brief bio Email Publications related to autism Home page
Dr. Johanna Rendle-Short Brief bio Email Publications related to autism Home page	Dr. Francisco Rodríguez-Muñoz Brief bio Email Publications related to autism
Victoria Stafford Brief Bio Email Home page	Dr. Laura Sterponi Brief bio Email Publications related to autism Home page
Trini Stickle Brief Bio Email	Betty Yu Brief Bio Email Publications related to autism
Nor Azrita Mohamed Zain Brief Bio Email Home Page

Useful Resources

• National Autistic Society
• "Introduction to Conversation Analysis" by Charles Antaki -Professor of Language and Social Psychology (Loughborough University)
• Language and Interaction Research Assembly (LIRA) - University of Leicester
• Discourse and Rhetoric Group (DARG) - Loughborough University
• Paul ten Have - Paul ten Have is Associate Professor at the Department of Anthropology & Sociology, Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, University of Amsterdam.
• Useful books

Recent conference papers

Many of our CARA members were involved in the recent 4th International Conference of Conversation Analysis (ICCA) in Los Angeles (June 2014)
- list of papers

Many of our CARA members were involved in the recent conference ‘Critical Autism Studies: Travelling through Autistic Worlds in Policy, Practice and Identities (June 2017)
- book of abstracts

YouTube - tutorial

Tom Muskett tutorial on CA and autism (coming soon).