Social stories to enhance communicative strategies among autism spectrum disorder (ASD) children

The use of strategies by children with developmental disabilities in repairing their communicative breakdowns has received little attention in the research literature to date. These children may also have fewer strategies available to them. By using Tarone’s Taxonomy (1980) of communicative strategi...

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Main Authors: Suraya Amirrudin, Normaliza Abd Rahim, Hazlina Abdul Halim, Ilyana Jalaludin
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Language:English
Published: Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2019
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author Suraya Amirrudin,
Normaliza Abd Rahim,
Hazlina Abdul Halim,
Ilyana Jalaludin,
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Normaliza Abd Rahim,
Hazlina Abdul Halim,
Ilyana Jalaludin,
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description The use of strategies by children with developmental disabilities in repairing their communicative breakdowns has received little attention in the research literature to date. These children may also have fewer strategies available to them. By using Tarone’s Taxonomy (1980) of communicative strategies, this current study was trying to further unravel and discuss how children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) could enhance their spoken communicative intent in conversing about moral values. Audiotaped, semi-structured conversational data was collected from four children (two low functioning autism and two Asperger Syndrome) with autism ASD. They were seven to nine years old from Sekolah Kebangsaan Desaminium, Seri Kembangan, Selangor. Two social stories were told to the subjects; Visiting atuk and nenek in Kampung and Being Kind to Animals with two moral values underpinned in each social story. Findings revealed that all four ASD children were using almost all the nine communicative strategies except for word coinage. The study concluded that Tarone’s Taxonomy (1980) of communicative strategies was really helpful in unravelling the communicative intent of a group of ASD children in talking about moral values based on the social stories told to them. Having said so, future research still needs to consider how these strategies or perhaps other communicative strategies could be used as attempts to repair communicative breakdowns among ASD children. It is hoped that the impairment in understanding others’ mind hinders the development of an intent-based moral judgment in ASD children.
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spelling oai:generic.eprints.org:131932019-07-25T21:25:56Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/13193/ Social stories to enhance communicative strategies among autism spectrum disorder (ASD) children Suraya Amirrudin, Normaliza Abd Rahim, Hazlina Abdul Halim, Ilyana Jalaludin, The use of strategies by children with developmental disabilities in repairing their communicative breakdowns has received little attention in the research literature to date. These children may also have fewer strategies available to them. By using Tarone’s Taxonomy (1980) of communicative strategies, this current study was trying to further unravel and discuss how children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) could enhance their spoken communicative intent in conversing about moral values. Audiotaped, semi-structured conversational data was collected from four children (two low functioning autism and two Asperger Syndrome) with autism ASD. They were seven to nine years old from Sekolah Kebangsaan Desaminium, Seri Kembangan, Selangor. Two social stories were told to the subjects; Visiting atuk and nenek in Kampung and Being Kind to Animals with two moral values underpinned in each social story. Findings revealed that all four ASD children were using almost all the nine communicative strategies except for word coinage. The study concluded that Tarone’s Taxonomy (1980) of communicative strategies was really helpful in unravelling the communicative intent of a group of ASD children in talking about moral values based on the social stories told to them. Having said so, future research still needs to consider how these strategies or perhaps other communicative strategies could be used as attempts to repair communicative breakdowns among ASD children. It is hoped that the impairment in understanding others’ mind hinders the development of an intent-based moral judgment in ASD children. Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2019 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/13193/1/29169-104715-1-PB.pdf Suraya Amirrudin, and Normaliza Abd Rahim, and Hazlina Abdul Halim, and Ilyana Jalaludin, (2019) Social stories to enhance communicative strategies among autism spectrum disorder (ASD) children. Jurnal Komunikasi ; Malaysian Journal of Communication, 35 (2). pp. 87-102. ISSN 0128-1496 http://ejournal.ukm.my/mjc/issue/view/1200
spellingShingle Suraya Amirrudin,
Normaliza Abd Rahim,
Hazlina Abdul Halim,
Ilyana Jalaludin,
Social stories to enhance communicative strategies among autism spectrum disorder (ASD) children
title Social stories to enhance communicative strategies among autism spectrum disorder (ASD) children
title_full Social stories to enhance communicative strategies among autism spectrum disorder (ASD) children
title_fullStr Social stories to enhance communicative strategies among autism spectrum disorder (ASD) children
title_full_unstemmed Social stories to enhance communicative strategies among autism spectrum disorder (ASD) children
title_short Social stories to enhance communicative strategies among autism spectrum disorder (ASD) children
title_sort social stories to enhance communicative strategies among autism spectrum disorder (asd) children
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