Cognitively Irrelevant Responses CI

Besides, there is a situation in which Temple feels calm down and then, she is able to give cognitively relevant responses CR. It is shown in the following data. In the yard of Hampshire boarding school, Temple and Dr Carlock are walking in the garden Dr Carlock : Now, heres a question. If I wind this up and then let go, why doesnt the propeller stay still and the body of the plane spin around? Temple : Thats simple. The resistance of the wings. Dr Carlock : Thats absolutely right. Temple : And watch this. Pulling off the wings With no wings and just one plane of resistance, you have a helicopter Dr Carlock : Youre absolutely right. Temple. Datum 36RCR The dialogue occurs in Hampshire boarding school when Temple is talking to her teacher, Dr Carlock. She feels comfortable to talk to him. Dr Carlock is demonstrating a plane which is flown up. She is able to answer Dr Carlock‟s question. The answer is appropriate to the topic which is being talked and required by the question. Her response “Thats simple. The resistance of the wings” is relevant response to Dr Carlock‟s question. In addition, Temple is also able to assert right expressions for others while she seems relaxed. It can be seen in the example below: Mr John Richmond : I will read anything you send in, Miss Grandin. In fact, here take my card. You address it directly to me Temple : Thank you, sir . Datum 54RCR Mr Gilbert : How‟d you like to put it into practice? See, I lost my designer and I need a new cattle dip. Can you do it? It‟s pretty simple, but, I gotta present plans in five days. Temple : Sure. Datum 66RCR Both dialogues show that Temple can give relevant responses. She can express gratitude when someone gives something to her. She says “thankyou” to Mr Richmond when he promises to help her to read her articles and give a name card to her. Temple ‟s response in datum 66 can be classified as CR. When Mr Gilbert says “How’d you like to put it into practice? See, I lost my designer and I need a new cattle dip. Can you do it? It’s pretty simple, but, I gotta present plans in five days”, he tries to ask Temple to make a new design for him. Temple convinces Mr Gilbert that she can do what he asks by expressing certainty “sure”. This expression shows CR.

c. Cognitively Disruptive and Socially Inappropriate Responses CDI

Cognitively disruptive and socially inappropriate responses are responses which are inappropriate to a conversational topic being talked and even the responses contain a digression which is considered as disruptive to conversational coherence. The digression can be divided into three categories namely odd responses OD, more relevant but not too polite responses RNP, and marginally relevant responses MR. Those categories include in CDI because they are not totally complete responses. Besides, the categories that belong to CDI are not called reasonable responses. They have different characteristics for each digression. The following explanation discusses the differences of those types. 1 Odd Responses OD Odd responses do not appear often in Temple Grandin‟s utterances. The responses only appear twice of the total 81 occurrences or 2.47 . In addition, what is meant by OD is when the speaker adds a new topic in a conversation. The additional topic uttered by the speaker is still nearly relevant to the topic conversation. The speaker still drags in the previous topic but he or she adds a new meaning on the topic. This phenomenon does not only occur in normal people but individuals with autism also experience this digression. This is because they have difficulty in responding what someone else utters to them. They are not able to understand the meaning of utterances declared by the speaker. Thus, they add new topics which sometimes make the speaker confused to catch their words. As stated above, there are two odd responses experienced by Temple Grandin as the autistic character. The following examples show odd responses. In Ann’s home, in the diningroom, Temple and Uncle Mike is sitting and talking about college Ms Ann : So you didn‟t answer Mike‟s question. Are you excited going to college? Temple : I want to stay in highschool. I like my Science teacher. Dr Carlock‟s very smart and he‟s been to college. So I do n‟t understand why I have to move to learn what he probably already knows. Datum 07ROD From the dialogue above, Temple‟s utterance can be classified as odd responses OD because she adds a new topic that gives a different meaning from the previous topic. When Temple is having dinner with Ms Ann and Mr Mike, they are talking about college. In their conversations, Temple does not understand about the college. Even, she does not have any interests in the college. Thus, when