ArticlePsychopathology2020
Making Meaning Together: Embodied Narratives in a Case of Severe Autism.
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- Social motor synchrony in autism spectrum conditions: A systematic review.Autism : the international journal of research and practice · 2024Pooled it
- The Effectiveness of Sensory-Motor Integration Exercises on Social Skills and Motor Performance in Children with Autism.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2025Trial
- AllPlay Dance autism: protocol for a randomised controlled trial of a community-based dance programme for children with autism.BMJ open · 2026Article
- A multidimensional approach to the self in non-human animals through the Pattern Theory of Self.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Evidence of mutual non-verbal synchrony in learners with severe learning disability and autism, and their support workers: a motion energy analysis study.Frontiers in integrative neuroscience · 2024Article
- A scoping review of interaction dynamics in minimally verbal autistic individuals.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Rhythmic Relating: Bidirectional Support for Social Timing in Autism Therapies.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- The Potential Benefits of Dance Movement Therapy in Improving Couple Relations of Individuals Diagnosed With Autism Spectrum Disorder-A Review.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Review
- Enactivism in Autism Healthcare Practices: A Scoping Review.Inquiry : a journal of medical care organization, provision and financingArticle
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5 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
Shared understanding is generated between individuals before speech through a language of body movement and non-verbal vocalisation, expression of feeling and interest made in gestures of movement and voice. Human understanding is co-created in these embodied projects, displayed in serially organised expressions with shared timing of reciprocal actions between partners. These develop in narrative events that build over cycles of reciprocal expressive action in a four-part structure shared by all the time-based arts: "introduction," "development," "climax," and "conclusion." Pre-linguistic narrative establishes the foundation of later, linguistic intelligence. Yet, participating in social interactions that give rise to narrative development is a central problem of autism spectrum disorder. In this paper, we examine the rapid growth of narrative meaning-making between a non-verbal young woman with severe autism and her new therapist. Episodes of embodied, shared understanding were enabled through a basic therapeutic mode of reciprocal, creative mirroring of expressive gesture. These developed through reciprocal cycles and as the relationship progressed, complete co-created narratives were formed resulting in shared joy and the mutual interest and trust of companionship. These small, embodied stories enabled moments of co-regulated arousal that the young woman had previous difficulty with. These data provide evidence for an intact capacity for non-verbal narrative meaning-making in autism.
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