autism and narrative

[Ann Dowker]

There is quite a lot of potentially relevant material on normally
developing children.  I'm not quite sure whether you are interested only
in recall of narrative, or also in production of novel narratives; but
books/ papers that may interest you include:

Arthur Applebee: The Child's Concept of Story; University of Chicago
Press, 1978

Janet Astington: Narrative and the child's theory of mind; in: B. Britton
and A. Pellegrini (eds): Narrative Thought and Narrative Language;
Erlbaum, 1990

Tony Charman and Yael Schmueli-Goetz: The relationship between theory of
mind, language and narrative discourse; Cahiers de Psychologie Cognitive/
Current Psychology of Cognition, 1998, 17(2), 245-271

Carol Fox: At the Very Edge of the Forest: The Influence of Literature on
Storytelling by Children; Cassell, 1993

A. McCabe and C. Peterson: Developing Narrative Structure; Erlbaum, 1991

Katherine Nelson: Narratives from the Crib: Harvard University Press, 1989

Daniela Plesa: Children's intertextual strategies in elicited narratives;
Cahiers de Psychologie Cognitive/ Current Psychology of Cognition, 1998,
17(2), 185-210

Alina Spinillo and Giuliana Pinto: Children's narratives under different
conditions: a comparative study; British Journal of Developmental
Psychology, 1994, 12, 177-193

Brian Sutton_Smith: The Folkstories of Children; University of
Pennsylvania Press, 1982



On narratives in autism:

S. Baron-Cohen, A. Leslie and U. Frith: Mechanical, behavioural and
intentional understanding of picture stories in autistic children; British
Journal of Developmental Psychology, 1986, 4, 113-125

F. Happe: The autobiographical writings of three Asperger syndrome adults:
problems of interpretation and implications for theory; in: U. Frith (ed.)
Autism and Asperger Syndrome; Cambridge University Press, 1991

K.A. Loveland, R. McEvoy, B. Tunali and M. Kelly: Narrative story telling
in autism and Downs Syndrome; British Journal of Developmental Psychology,
1990, 8, 9-23

K.A. Loveland and B. Tunali: Narrative language in autism and the theory
of mind hypothesis; in: S. Baron-Cohen (ed).: Understanding Other Minds:
Perspectives from Autism; Oxford University Press, 1993

Helen Tager-Flusberg: Once upon a ribbit: stories narrated by autistic
children; British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 1995, 13, 45-59

Helen Tager-Flusberg and K. Sullivan: Attributing mental states to story
characters: a comparison of the narratives produced by autistic and
mentally retarded individuals; Applied Psycholinguistics, 1995, 16,
241-256


Best wishes,

Ann

 On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, Sylvia L Ashwell wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I am starting to do research on autism and narrative development, and I
> was wondering if anyone knew of research concerning narrative retelling by
> autistic and/or normal children.  Thanks for any help you can give me on
> this matter.
>
> Sylvia Ashwell
> Psychology Department
> University of Florida
> PO Box 112250
> Gainesville, FL  32611-2250
> (352) 392-0601 x401
> Email: sylvia5 at grove.ufl.edu
>
>
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