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How adults with a profound intellectual disability engage others in interaction
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posted on 2023-08-30, 14:24 authored by Charles Antaki, Rebecca J. Crompton, Chris Walton, W. M. L. FinlayUsing video records of everyday life in a residential home, we report on what interactional practices are used by people with severe and profound intellectual disabilities to initiate encounters. There were very few initiations,
and all presented difficulties to the interlocutor; one (which we call "blank recipiency") gave the interlocutor virtually no information at all on which to base a response. Only when the initiation was of a new phase in an interaction already under way (for example, the initiation of an alternative trajectory of a proposed physical move) was it likely to be successfully sustained. We show how interlocutors (support staff; the recording researcher) responded to initiations verbally, as if to neurotypical speakers - but inappropriately for people unable to comprehend, or to produce well-fitted next turns. This misreliance on ordinary speakers' conversational practices was one factor that contributed to residents abandoning the interaction in almost all cases. We discuss the dilemma confronting care workers.
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39Issue number
4Page range
581-598Publication title
Sociology of Health and IllnessISSN
1467-9566External DOI
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WileyFile version
- Accepted version
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- eng
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ARCHIVED Faculty of Science & Technology (until September 2018)Note
This is the peer reviewed version which has been published in final form at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.12500. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley's terms and conditions for self-archiving.Usage metrics
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