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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Autistic Intelligence: Interaction, Individuality, and the Challenges of Diagnosis proposes and characterizes a way of understanding autistic strengths, based on research conducted in two decades: the mid-1980s and the mid-2010s . . . Autistic Intelligence is rich with stories and very readable . . . [It] richly unpacks these stories and provides tools for perhaps remaking them."
* Social Service Review *
“A creative and original ethnographic study of a clinic at which developmental disabilities are diagnosed. Maynard and Turowetz introduce new analytical tools to understand the nature and varieties of autistic intelligence.” -- Mitchell Duneier, Princeton University
"An authoritative challenge to conventional public and expert orientations toward autism, this is an ethnography about meaning-making that is brilliant in its own way.” -- Harvey Molotch, New York University
"In
Autistic Intelligence: Interaction, Individuality, and the Challenges of Diagnosis, Maynard and Turowetz offer a detailed and caring investigation of the autism diagnostic process. Drawing on a wealth of data and personal experience with autism spectrum disorders, the authors argue for expanding everyday interactional repertoires to enable intersubjectivity (co-meaning making) with autistic people, increasing the flexibility of the commonsense repertoires we all use to navigate the world." -- Alexandra H. Vinson * Symbolic Interaction *
Table of ContentsChapter 1: Common Sense and the Interaction Order of the Clinic
Chapter 2: A Brief History and Biology of Autism Diagnosis: Why We Need an Interactional Approach
Chapter 3: An Interactional Entrance to Autism Diagnosis
Chapter 4: Autistic Intelligence as Uncommon Sense
Chapter 5: Varieties of Autistic Intelligence
Chapter 6: Doing Diagnosis: Narrative Structure
Chapter 7: Is Autism Real?
Chapter 8: Interaction and the Particular Autistic Person
Acknowledgments
Notes
References
Index
