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Making Sense of Listening: The IMAP Test Battery

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Published on: October 11, 2010

Communicative depth: soundings from developmental psychopathology.

R Peter Hobson¹

¹Developmental Psychopathology Research Unit, Tavistock Clinic, London, United Kingdom. r.hobson@ucl.ac.uk <r.hobson@ucl.ac.uk>

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This study explores communication in typically developing infants versus children with autism, focusing on shared experiences and intersubjective relatedness. Understanding autism

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Making Sense of Listening: The IMAP Test Battery

Making Sense of Listening: The IMAP Test Battery

Published on: October 11, 2010

Area of Science:

Developmental psychopathology
Developmental psychology
Communication sciences

Background:

Effective communication relies on shared experiences and intersubjective relatedness.
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) presents challenges in achieving communicative depth.
Existing research often frames autism's cognitive, affective, and motivational aspects narrowly.

Purpose of the Study:

To define and explore interpersonal engagement and communication.
To compare communication structures in typically developing infants and children/adolescents with autism.
To analyze the conditions enabling shared experiences and intersubjective relatedness.

Main Methods:

Comparative analysis of communication patterns.
Adoption of a developmental psychopathology framework.
Examination of intersubjectivity and shared experience.

Main Results:

Typically developing infants exhibit a propensity for sharing experiences.
Children and adolescents with autism demonstrate difficulties in achieving communicative depth.
The capacity for intersubjective engagement is crucial for communication.

Conclusions:

Understanding difficulties in communicative depth is key to understanding autism.
Insights into typically developing infants' intersubjective capacities can inform autism research.
A focus on shared experience is vital for comprehending communication development.