ABSTRACT
This chapter considers the ground for studying gaze and communication with autistic children in a new way. It describes the place of the interactional tradition within social research more broadly and also considers popular qualitative methods, namely interviews and direct observation, the strengths and limitations of these other methods, while setting up a problem. The chapter focuses on the interactional tradition as a possible solution that could develop understanding of the resourcefulness of autistic children as social partners. The discussion of turn-taking and sequence organisation is critical to understanding early conversation analysis (CA) and has also relevance for understanding multimodal interactions beyond speech. The basic sequential structure around which most social interactions are organised is called the adjacency pair. The chapter outlines the key aspects involved in terms of working with video recordings. It explores a selection of transcription styles: multimodal transcription, tabular transcription, graphic transcription, and sequential transcription.
