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DESCRIPTION:The CRLMB Language Lunch is an informal\, academic-community\ns
 eminar on speech and language research. Please join us at noon on\nNovembe
 r 10th as Aparna Nadig\, (Ph.D) School of Communication\nSciences and Diso
 rders\, º£½ÇÉçÇø\, presents\n'Interpersonal communication in high
 -functioning autism:\nLooking beyond group differences.'\nAbstract:\nIn th
 is talk I describe a set of studies on communication in\nschool-age childr
 en with high-functioning autism that focus on\nindividual differences with
 in this group and the factors that\nunderlie them. The first study examine
 d how participants describe\nobjects to a conversational partner in three 
 situations with\nincreasingly complex audience design demands. Rather than
  a general\nattenuation in adapted descriptions\, HFA participants demonst
 rated\ndistinct adaptation profiles where more complex aspects of audience
 \ndesign were demonstrated sequentially. Higher structural language\nabili
 ty\, rather than symptom severity or social skills\,\ndifferentiated HFA p
 articipants with typical adaptation profiles\nfrom those who displayed dec
 reased audience design.\nThe second set of studies examined face-to-face c
 onversation in\nthe same sample. A quantitative analysis was carried out o
 n both\nverbal exchange and gaze data. In addition a novel question was\ne
 xamined: How does speaking about a circumscribed interest affect\nreciproc
 ity of verbal exchange and eye gaze\, relative to a generic\ntopic? Speaki
 ng about a topic of interest may improve reciprocity\nby increasing partic
 ipants' motivation. Alternatively\, it could\nengender more one-sided inte
 raction\, given the engrossing nature of\ncircumscribed interests. In thei
 r verbal exchanges HFA participants\ndemonstrated decreased reciprocity du
 ring the interest topic.\nMoreover\, stereotyped behaviour and restricted 
 interest symptoms\nwere inversely related to reciprocal verbal exchange. H
 owever\, both\nthe HFA and comparison groups looked significantly more to 
 their\npartner's face during the interest than generic topic. The results
 \nacross modalities suggest that circumscribed interests led HFA\nparticip
 ants to be less adaptive to their partner verbally\, but\nspeaking about t
 hese highly practiced topics also allowed for\nincreased gaze to the partn
 er.\n \n \n \n
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LOCATION:Rabinovitch House\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3G 2A8\, 3640 rue de la 
 Montagne
SUMMARY:Language Lunch: Dr. Aparna Nadig
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