Tensions between autistic sociality, communication, and social skills research: A response to Bambara (2022) and Camarata (2022)

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Journal article of the type Commentary ( ; english)

Nathan Keates , Krysia Waldock * , Eleanor Dewar *
Tensions between autistic sociality, communication, and social skills research: A response to Bambara (2022) and Camarata (2022) published in the journal "Journal of speech, language, and hearing research" n°65, vol.11, 4 pages , doi: 10.1044/2022_JSLHR-22-00331

*Two co-authors had publicly identified as autistic. [Learn more about this mention]

Summary/Presentation

Purpose: The purpose of this letter to the editor is to further elucidate the arguments Keates (2022) and Beechey (2022) stated in their letters to the editor. Both Bambara (2022) and Camarata (2022) pose comments that require clarifying the original arguments, particularly regarding power and autistic sociality, which we feel will provide further clarity to this highly significant and growing topic within autism research.
Conclusion: We recommend teaching not autistic people but rather non-autistic individuals about autistic sociality, in order to lower the burden on autistic interlocutors in cross-neurotype interactions and socialization (as per previous literature, Bottema-Beutel et al., 2018). We provide recommendations to address difficulties in cross-neurotype interactions-for example, bridging the neurotype gap through practice or psychosocial interventions for acceptance of autistic people and their system of interpretation, as per Jones et al. (2021).

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