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What is taken for granted in autism research?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 July 2019

Michele Ilana Friedner
Michele Ilana Friedner*
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Department of Comparative Human Development, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637. michelefriedner@uchicago.edu
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Abstract

This commentary focuses on three points: the need to consider semiotic ideologies of both researchers and autistic people, questions of commensurability, and problems with “the social” as an analytical concept. It ends with a call for new research methodologies that are not deficit-based and that consider a broad range of linguistic and non-linguistic communicative practices.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 42 , 2019 , e90
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