Chapter 1. Autism Spectrum Disorder: An introduction; Karim -- Chapter 2. Social constructionism, Autism Spectrum Disorder and the discursive approaches; O'Reilly and Lester -- Chapter 3. Naturally occurring data versus researcher generated data; Lester, Muskett, & O'Reilly -- Chapter 4. Using conversation analysis to assess the language and communication of people on the autism spectrum: A case-based tutorial; Muskett -- Chapter 5. Understanding the autistic individual: A practical guide to discourse analysis; Charlotte Brownlow, Lindsay O'Dell & Tanya Machin -- Chapter 7. How to use research supervision in the development of a discursive psychology or conversation analysis project to study Autism; Smart and Denman -- PART II -- Chapter 8. The interaction is the work: rehabilitating risk in a forensic patient with Autism Spectrum Disorder and Learning Disability; Dobbinson -- Chapter 9. Children's use of I don't know during clinical evaluations for autism spectrum disorder: responses to emotion questions; Stickle, Duck, and Maynard -- Chapter 10. Discursive methods and the cross-linguistic study of ASD: A conversation analysis case study of repetitive language in a Malay-speaking child; Mohamed Zain, Muskett and Gardner -- Chapter 11. Conversation Analysis: A tool for analysing interactional difficulties faced by children with Asperger's syndrome; Rendle-Short -- Chapter 12. Animating characters and experiencing selves: a look at adolescents with autism spectrum disorder constructing fictional storyboards with typically developing peers; Bottema-Beutel, Sterponi, & Louick.

This book introduces a novel approach for examining language and communication in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) - discourse and conversation analysis. The authors offer a set of very different perspectives on these complex issues than are typically presented in psychological and clinical work. Emerging from a range of social scientific fields, discourse and conversation analysis involve fine-grained qualitative analysis of naturally-occurring, rather than laboratory-based, interaction, enabling broad applications. Presented in two parts, this innovative volume first provides a set of pedagogical chapters to develop the reader's knowledge and skills in using these approaches, before moving to showcase the use of discursive methods through a range of original contributions from world-leading scholars, drawn from a range of disciplines including sociology, academic and clinical psychology, speech and language therapy, critical disability studies and social theory, and medicine and psychiatry.