Children's Play, Pretense, and Story: Studies in Culture, Context, and Autism Spectrum Disorder - Paperback
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This collection explores how storytelling and pretence interconnect, diverge, and influence each other in the course of development-both in neurotypical children and in children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
Susan Douglas is a developmental linguist specializing in language acquisition in children with autism spectrum disorder. Her research interests include syntactic and semantic acquisition, narrative development, and the discourse structure of pretend play.
Lesley Stirling is a linguist and cognitive scientist working on descriptive and typological linguistics, semantics, and discourse analysis, especially of narrative. She has been researching communication in autism for over a decade, focusing on the discourse analysis of children's stories and play interactions.
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