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Sensory Conversation: An Interactive Environment to Augment Social Communication in Autistic Children

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For autistic people, sensory interactions throughout daily life are augmented by profound and impactful experiences, not consciously considered by many in the mainstream, or neurotypical population.

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    I acknowledge the common usage of person-first language in most academic writing relating to autistic persons. However, the identity-first language used in this chapter is done so out of respect for autism self-advocates, who wish to recognise autism as an important part of their being in the world.

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    As discussed in Steve Silberman’s book, Neurotribes: The Legacy of Autism and How to Think Smarter About People Who Think Differently (2015), Leo Kanner’s work is now considered controversial in the way that it addresses autistic people. However, the acknowledgement of autism as a specific condition was almost non-existent before Kanner’s research in the 1940s.

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Brown, S.A., Gemeinboeck, P. (2018). Sensory Conversation: An Interactive Environment to Augment Social Communication in Autistic Children. In: Huber, J., Shilkrot, R., Maes, P., Nanayakkara, S. (eds) Assistive Augmentation. Cognitive Science and Technology. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6404-3_8

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