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 |
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Dr Jessica Lester |
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Expert Clinical Panel
Dr. Khalid Karim Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist (Senior Teaching Fellow, University of Leicester) |
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Dr. Tom Muskett |
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Dr. Nikki Kiyimba |
Dr. Sushie Dobbinson Lead Forensic Speech & Language Therapist |
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Dr. Katie Denman Clinical Psychologist |
Frequently Asked Questions
Members List
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Publications related to autism
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Paul Dickerson |
Hannah Dostal |
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Konstantinos |
Stella Huang |
Eliza Maciejewska |
Prof. Douglas Maynard |
T A Marie McDonald |
Miss Rosanna Murray |
Dr. Lindsay O'Dell |
Professor Alison Pilnick |
Dr. John Rae |
Dr. Johanna Rendle-Short |
Victoria Stafford |
Dr. Laura Sterponi |
Trini Stickle |
Betty Yu |
Nor Azrita Mohamed Zain |
Useful Resources
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"Introduction to Conversation Analysis" by Charles Antaki -Professor of Language and Social Psychology (Loughborough University)
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Language and Interaction Research Assembly (LIRA) - University of Leicester
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Discourse and Rhetoric Group (DARG) - Loughborough University
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Paul ten Have - Paul ten Have is Associate Professor at the Department of Anthropology & Sociology, Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, University of Amsterdam.
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).