SCOPE 22: The Science of Oral Storytelling: Dr. Trina Spencer, PhD, BCBA-D

Описание: SPABA Community of Practice Event (SCOPE) 22:
The Science of Oral Storytelling
Guest Speaker: Trina Spencer, PhD, BCBA-D
Abstract
A narrative is defined as a spoken or written (including Augmentative and Alternative Communication modalities) monological telling or retelling of past events, either real or imaginary. Importantly, narratives contain causally related events told/retold in a temporal sequence acceptable to the verbal community in which it is used. Narratives are powerful tools. We live our lives and think in story format. This ability has evolved alongside human development and has facilitated the emergence and transfer of complex verbal behavior. The narrative is useful, versatile, and pervasive because the human brain is skilled at detecting patterns, whether humans are aware of them or not. Interventionists who capitalize on this fact will discover that the autoclitic frames within narratives, and language generally, allow for rapid transfer across contexts, modalities, and languages. Dr. Spencer will unpack the discourse-, sentence-, and word-level patterns that are inextricably integrated within a narrative and explicate how they are related to manipulative autoclitic frames. These include the macrostructural patterns made up of story grammar elements, the order and emphasis of which are culturally and linguistically derived. At the sentence level, syntactical patterns are also powerful due to their autoclitic influence.