Metacommunication, social pretend play and children with autism

Australian Journal of Early Childhood

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 34-43

  Douglas, Susan ^a   Stirling, Lesley ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878414715     PISSN: 03125033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/183693911203700406     Document Type: Article

References (33)

1. American Psychiatric Association (APA) (2000). Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, DSM-IV-TR Fourth Edition (Text Revision). Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Publishing.
2. Asperger, H.; translated and annotated by Frith, U. (1991) [1944]. 'Autistic psychopathy' in childhood. In U. Frith, Autism and Asperger syndrome (pp. 37-92). Cambridge: C.U.P.
3. Auwarter, M. (1986). Development of communicative skills: The construction of fictional reality in children's play. In J. Cook-Gumperz, W. A. Corsaro & J. Streeck (Eds), Children's worlds and children's language (pp. 205-230). NY: Mouton de Gruyter.
4. Bateson, G. (1951). Information and codification: A philosophical approach. In G. Bateson & J. Reusch (Eds), Communication: The social matrix of psychiatry (pp. 168-211). NY: Norton.
5. Douglas, S. (2012). Understanding Actions, States, and Events: Verb learning in children with autism. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
6. Douglas, S., & Stirling, L. (2012). Social pretend play in autism: negotiated shared pretence and collective intentionality. Unpublished manuscript.
7. Giffin, H. (1984). The Coordination of Meaning in the Creation of a Shared Make-believe Reality. In I. Bretherton (Ed), Symbolic play: the development of social understanding (pp. 73-100). Orlando, FL: Academic Press.
8. Göncü, A. (1993). Development of intersubjectivity in the dyadic play of preschoolers. Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 8, 99-116.
9. Hobson, R. P. (2005). What puts the jointness into joint attention?. In N. Eilan, C. Hoerl, T. McCormack & J. Roessler (Eds), Joint Attention: Communication and Other Minds. Issues in Philosophy and Psychology (pp. 185-204). New York: Oxford University Press.
10. Howes, C. (1985). Sharing fantasy: Social pretend play in toddlers. Child Development 56.5, 1253-1258.
11. Howes, C, Unger, O., & Beizer Seidner, L. (1989). Social pretend play in toddlers: Parallels with social play and with solitary pretend. Child Development 60.1, 77-84.
12. Jarrold, C. (2003). A review of research into pretend play in autism. Autism, 7, 379-390.
13. Jarrold, C., Boucher, J., & Smith, P. (1996). Generativity Deficits in Pretend Play in Autism. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 14, 275-300.
14. Jarrold, C., Carruthers, P., Smith, P. K., & Boucher, J. (1994). Pretend play: Is it metarepresentational? Mind and Language, 9.4, 445-468.
15. Lewis, V., & Boucher, J. (1988). Spontaneous, instructed and elicited play in relatively able autistic children. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 6.4, 325-339.
16. Jordan, R. (2003). Social play and autistic spectrum disorders: A perspective on theory, implications and educational approaches. Autism 7, 347-360.
17. Kanner, L. (1943). Autistic disturbances of affective contact. Nervous Child, 2, 217-250.
18. Kavanaugh, R. D., & Harris, P. L. (1994). Imagining the outcome of pretend transformations: Assessing the competence of normal and autistic children. Developmental Psychology, 30, 847-854.
19. MacWhinney, B. (2000). The CHILDES Project: Tools for analyzing talk. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
20. Mifsud, J., Kelly, R., Dissanayake, C., & Leekam, S. (2009). Symbolic play in high-functioning autism: How 'playful' is their play? Poster presented at the International Meeting for Autism Research, Chicago, 7-9 May, 2009.
21. Nielsen, M., & Dissanayake, C. (2000). An investigation of pretend play, mental state terms, and false belief understanding: In search of a metarepresentational link. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 18, 609-624.
22. Piaget, J. (1962). Play, dreams and imitation in childhood. NY: Mouton.
23. Rakoczy, H. (2008). Pretence as individual and collective intentionality. Mind and Language, 23.5, 499-517.
24. Sawyer, K. (1993) The pragmatics of play: Interactional strategies during children's pretend play. Pragmatics 3.3, 259-282.
25. Scarborough, H. S. (1990). Index of Productive Syntax. Applied Psycholinguistics 11, 1-22.
26. Schopler, E., Reichler, R., & Renner, B. (1988). The Childhood Autism Rating Scale (CARS). Los Angeles: Western Psychological Services.
27. Schuler, A., & Fletcher, C. (2002). Making communication meaningful: Cracking the language interaction code. In R. Gabriels & D. Hill (Eds), Autism: From research to individualized practice (pp. 41-52). London: Jessica Kingsley.
28. Sigman, M., & Ruskin, E. (1999). Continuity and change in the social competence of children with autism, Down syndrome, and developmental delays. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 64, 1-114.
29. Walenski, M., Tager-Flusberg, H., & Ullman, M.T. (2006). Language in autism. In S. O. Moldin & J. L. R. Rubenstein (Eds), Understanding autism: From basic neuroscience to treatment (pp. 175-203). Boca Raton, FL: Taylor and Francis Books.
30. Wing, L., & Gould, J. (1979). Severe Impairments of Social Interaction and Associated Abnormalities in Children: Epidemiology and Classification. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 9, 11-29.
31. Wolfberg, P. (2009). Play & Imagination in Children with Autism, 2nd Edition. New York: Teachers College.
32. World Health Organization. (1992). The ICD-10 classification of mental and behavioral disorders. Clinical descriptions and diagnostic guidelines. Geneva: WHO.
33. World Health Organization. (1993). The ICD-10 classification of mental and behavioral disorders. Diagnostic criteria for research. Geneva: WHO.