Autism online: a comparison of word usage in bloggers with and without autism spectrum disorders Export

@inproceedings{citeulike:4446393, abstract = {The Internet has become a place of refuge for individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). In particular, weblogs are a popular option for personal expression via the Internet. Perhaps this means of communication is well suited to bypassing deficits in social interaction and communication that characterize ASD. Using the Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC) dictionaries [10], we compared blogs of individuals with ASD to the writing of neurotypical (NT) bloggers. We found that rates of word usage were nearly identical in the two groups with one exception - there was more variation in the use of social words in ASD compared to NT blogs. This similarity in language between ASD and NT authors suggests that communication deficits routinely found in people with ASD may be due to the social context in which their communication skills are tested, and that the affordances of asynchronous computer-mediated communication may offer alternative means of testing and expression.}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {Newton, Taylor A. and Kramer, Adam D. I. and Mcintosh, Daniel N.}, booktitle = {CHI '09: Proceedings of the 27th international conference on Human factors in computing systems}, citeulike-article-id = {4446393}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1518701.1518775}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1518701.1518775}, doi = {10.1145/1518701.1518775}, isbn = {978-1-60558-246-7}, keywords = {autism, blogging}, location = {Boston, MA, USA}, pages = {463--466}, posted-at = {2009-04-30 21:44:13}, priority = {4}, publisher = {ACM}, title = {Autism online: a comparison of word usage in bloggers with and without autism spectrum disorders}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1518701.1518775}, year = {2009} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:4446393 L3 - citeulike-article-id:4446393 N2 - The Internet has become a place of refuge for individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). In particular, weblogs are a popular option for personal expression via the Internet. Perhaps this means of communication is well suited to bypassing deficits in social interaction and communication that characterize ASD. Using the Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC) dictionaries [10], we compared blogs of individuals with ASD to the writing of neurotypical (NT) bloggers. We found that rates of word usage were nearly identical in the two groups with one exception - there was more variation in the use of social words in ASD compared to NT blogs. This similarity in language between ASD and NT authors suggests that communication deficits routinely found in people with ASD may be due to the social context in which their communication skills are tested, and that the affordances of asynchronous computer-mediated communication may offer alternative means of testing and expression. CY - Boston, MA, USA SN - 978-1-60558-246-7 AD - New York, NY, USA EP - 466 TI - Autism online: a comparison of word usage in bloggers with and without autism spectrum disorders PB - ACM T2 - CHI '09: Proceedings of the 27th international conference on Human factors in computing systems SP - 463 KW - autism KW - blogging AU - Newton, Taylor AU - Kramer, Adam AU - Mcintosh, Daniel PY - 2009/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1518701.1518775 ER -