Discourse is a social boundary that defines what statements can be said about a topic and discourse among special needs children is different. Additionally, social stories have been described as practical in educational practice and intervention. Therefore, the current research is trying to perceive the functional deficits of the ASD children by acknowledging the possibility of their autistic strengths. Likewise, the leap of research in the field of autism is enormous, and it is said to have increased dramatically in recent years.The current study uses qualitative data to provide details to the research objective; to compare the communicative intent of the spoken discourses produced by the low, medium and high functioning ASD children.There are four female and nine male ASD children selected as the sample for the study. The age is ranged from 9 to 11 years old. As for the instruments, the study utilises two main instruments; social stories and semi-structured interview questions. Nevertheless, to explain more about this phenomenon, the current research uses the Discourse Analysis Theory (Normaliza Abd Rahim, 2019). In the end, the current study is also succeeded in comparing the discourses of the ASD children according to their categories; LFA, MFA and HFA and coming up with the repertoire (list of utterances and gestures). For the communicative intent, two similarities are found; firstly, all the three groups; LFA, MFA and HFA demonstrate the seven communicative intent signals and secondly, their utterances match with the elements in the Discourse Analysis Theory (2019).
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