Olga Solomon
Biographic Data
| ID | 630803 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Olga Solomon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Olga |
| FAMILY NAME | Solomon |
| SIGNATURE | SOLOMON O |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southern California |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4505-3320 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 281 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Community Leadership Institute for Equity: Planning Processes and Procedures to Develop Partnered Conferences
It was feasible to use CPPR to plan Zoom conferences to promote community leadership training across multiple sites. Key planning themes included promoting equity, addressing structural racism, bidirectional learning and integrating community, academic, and policy priorities with community co-leaders as change agents
Using Community-Partnered Participatory Research to Value the “Community Lens” and Promote Equity in Community–Academic Partnerships
Background: Community input is crucial for identifying characteristics necessary for equitable, sustainable community-academic partnerships (CAPs). A November 2021 conference, honoring the late Dr. Loretta Jones and the Community-Partnered Participatory Research (CPPR) model, was held to gather input for designing a learning institute for community members as co-equal partners with academics in research, program, and policy initiatives. This crea…
Understanding connectivity: The parallax and disruptive-productive effects of mixed methods social network analysis in occupational science
This article introduces social network analysis (SNA), a theoretical perspective accompanied by a set of methodologies, to occupational science. The convergence of SNA and occupational science is timely for both fields. By providing methodological approaches that flesh out a structural view of social networks, SNA measurements and mathematical terminology can effectively bridge the complexity of diverse interpretive frameworks used to understand …
When the dog bites’: What can we learn about health geography from newspaper coverage in a ‘model city’ for dog-bite prevention
Early Childhood Obesity Among Underserved Families: A Multilevel Community–Academic Partnership
A community–academic partnership, based on a social–ecological framework, addressed pediatric obesity by implementing a multilevel intervention for underserved families in Los Angeles, California. Individual- and interpersonal-level outcomes included significant positive changes in preschoolers’ identification of unhealthy foods and in parents’ shopping, cooking, and parenting behaviors. Organizational-, community-, and policy-level outcomes incl…
Beyond V40.31: Narrative Phenomenology of Wandering in Autism and Dementia
If I was a different ethnicity, would she treat me the same?’: Latino parents’ experiences obtaining autism services
This article reports on an ethnographic study with 12 Latino families of children on the autism spectrum related to obtaining autism services in Los Angeles County. Using critical discourse analysis of interviews, observations, and records, we consider the experiences of the Latino families in relation to: 1) A discursively constructed 'autism parent' subject position that mandates 'fighting' service systems to 'win' autism services for children,…
A Phenomenological Approach to the Cultivation of Expertise: Emergent Understandings of Autism
In this article, we draw on narrative phenomenological (Mattingly 2010) and ethnographic projects to investigate how phenomenology may contribute to understanding how practical, experientially gained, expertise is cultivated in extraordinary circumstances. The lived world of autism provides a compelling context for such an exploration. Drawing on ethnographic data, we present arguments related to how a phenomenological approach to understanding a…
“But-He’ll Fall!”: Children with Autism, Interspecies Intersubjectivity, and the Problem of ‘Being Social’
You can turn off the light if you'd like: Pediatric Healthcare Visits for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder as an Interactional Achievement
You Can Turn off the Light If You'd Like: Pediatric Health Care Visits for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder as an Interactional Achievement
Substantial scholarship has been generated in medical anthropology and other social science fields on typically developing child-parent-doctor interactions during health care visits. This article contributes an ethnographic, longitudinal, discourse analytic account of a child with autism spectrum disorder (ASD)-parent-doctor interactions that occur during pediatric and neurology visits. The analysis shows that when a child with ASD walks into the…
The social life of health records: Understanding families' experiences of autism
And I look down and he is gone: Narrating autism, elopement and wandering in Los Angeles
Wandering' and 'elopement' have been identified as common in autism, affecting half of all diagnosed children ages four to ten, yet families rarely receive advice from practitioners even after the fact. Family perspectives have been missing from the literature as well as from public health and policy debates on how and when to respond to this problem. The problem of 'wandering' and 'elopement' reveals a complex intersection of larger issues encou…
Sociality: New Directions
Doing, Being and Becoming: The Sociality of Children with Autism in Activities with Therapy Dogs and Other People
This article examines theories of sociality against ethnographically informed understandings of the sociality of children affected by Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) interacting with therapy dogs and other people. I explore from an occupational science and occupational therapy perspective how theories of human sociality inform our understanding of the ways in which a child's social engagement is supported during child-dog interactions; and how an…
Sense and the Senses: Anthropology and the Study of Autism
As a clinical category and a sociocultural phenomenon, autism occupies a prominent albeit ambiguous place in ongoing social science and humanities debates about empathy, intersubjectivity, intentionality, epistemological certainty, and moral agency. Autism is used as a counterexample to feeling empathy and understanding other people's beliefs and intentions. Alternatively, it is given as evidence of the limitless potential and neurodiversity of t…
What a Dog Can Do: Children with Autism and Therapy Dogs in Social Interaction
For almost 50 years specially trained dogs have been used in clinical and family settings to facilitate how children with autism engage in social interaction and participate in everyday activities. Yet little theoretical grounding and empirical study of this socioclinical phenomenon has been offered by social science. This article draws on interdisciplinary scholarship to situate the study of the therapeutic use of dogs for children and teens wit…
Autistic Sociality
This article is based on our decade-long linguistic anthropological research on children with autism to introduce the notion of "autistic sociality" and to discuss its implications for an anthropological understanding of sociality. We define human sociality as consisting of a range of possibilities for social coordination with others that is influenced by the dynamics of both individuals and social groups. We argue that autistic sociality is one …
Introduction: Autism: Rethinking the Possibilities
This special issue ofEthosbrings together the work of scholars from multiple disciplines including anthropology, occupational science, and education. The authors share two main goals. First, this interdisciplinary collection of articles highlights the importance of rethinking research on autism. Each article encourages movement away from dominant biomedical discourses that focus largely on symptoms to a more phenomenological and ethnographic stan…
Autism across Cultures Unstrange Minds: Remapping the World of Autism: A Father, a Daughter, and the Search for New Answers . By Roy Richard Grinker. New York: Basic Books, 2007
Limitations and transformations of habitus in Child-Directed Communication
This article offers an alternative approach to paradigms that cast culture solely as a nurturing influence on children's language development. It proposes a dimensional model of Child-Directed Communication (CDC) to delineate ways in which a community's habitus may impede the communicative potential of children with neuro-developmental conditions such as severe autism. It argues that certain features of Euro-American CDC are illadapted for autist…
Understanding Williams Syndrome: Behavioral patterns and interventions
Eleanor Semel & Sue R. Rosner . Understanding Williams Syndrome: Behavioral patterns and interventions . Mahwah, NJ & London: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2003. Pp. xxi, 456. Hb $99.95, pb $45.00. “I never knew talent was a birth defect,” Jonas Salk has been quoted as saying about Williams Syndrome (cf. Bellugi & St. George 2001:xii), referring to the discrepancy between the extraordinary language abilities of persons with WS and their overall in…
Narrative introductions: Discourse Competence of Children With Autistic Spectrum Disorders
This article examines the discourse competence of high-functioning children with autistic spectrum disorders (ASD) to participate in narrative introduction sequences with family members. The analysis illuminates the children’s own efforts to launch narratives, as well as their ability to build upon the contributions of others. Ethnographic, discourse analytic methodology is integrated with the theory of discourse organization and the weak central…
Introduction: Discourse and Autism
Autism and the Social World: An Anthropological Perspective
This article offers an anthropological perspective on autism, a condition at once neurological and social, which complements existing psychological accounts of the disorder, expanding the scope of inquiry from the interpersonal domain, in which autism has been predominantly examined, to the socio-cultural one. Persons with autism need to be viewed not only as individuals in relation to other individuals, but as members of social groups and commun…
Autistic Sociality
This article is based on our decade-long linguistic anthropological research on children with autism to introduce the notion of "autistic sociality" and to discuss its implications for an anthropological understanding of sociality. We define human sociality as consisting of a range of possibilities for social coordination with others that is influenced by the dynamics of both individuals and social groups. We argue that autistic sociality is one …
Autism and the Social World: An Anthropological Perspective
This article offers an anthropological perspective on autism, a condition at once neurological and social, which complements existing psychological accounts of the disorder, expanding the scope of inquiry from the interpersonal domain, in which autism has been predominantly examined, to the socio-cultural one. Persons with autism need to be viewed not only as individuals in relation to other individuals, but as members of social groups and commun…
Sense and the Senses: Anthropology and the Study of Autism
As a clinical category and a sociocultural phenomenon, autism occupies a prominent albeit ambiguous place in ongoing social science and humanities debates about empathy, intersubjectivity, intentionality, epistemological certainty, and moral agency. Autism is used as a counterexample to feeling empathy and understanding other people's beliefs and intentions. Alternatively, it is given as evidence of the limitless potential and neurodiversity of t…
What a Dog Can Do: Children with Autism and Therapy Dogs in Social Interaction
For almost 50 years specially trained dogs have been used in clinical and family settings to facilitate how children with autism engage in social interaction and participate in everyday activities. Yet little theoretical grounding and empirical study of this socioclinical phenomenon has been offered by social science. This article draws on interdisciplinary scholarship to situate the study of the therapeutic use of dogs for children and teens wit…
Limitations and transformations of habitus in Child-Directed Communication
This article offers an alternative approach to paradigms that cast culture solely as a nurturing influence on children's language development. It proposes a dimensional model of Child-Directed Communication (CDC) to delineate ways in which a community's habitus may impede the communicative potential of children with neuro-developmental conditions such as severe autism. It argues that certain features of Euro-American CDC are illadapted for autist…
Introduction: Autism: Rethinking the Possibilities
This special issue ofEthosbrings together the work of scholars from multiple disciplines including anthropology, occupational science, and education. The authors share two main goals. First, this interdisciplinary collection of articles highlights the importance of rethinking research on autism. Each article encourages movement away from dominant biomedical discourses that focus largely on symptoms to a more phenomenological and ethnographic stan…
Inclusion as Social Practice: Views of Children with Autism
This study illuminates the social realities of inclusion of 16 high functioning children with autism (HFA) in public schools in the United States. The study suggests that the practice of inclusion rests primarily on unaffected schoolmates rather than teachers, who typically are occupied monitoring academic progress and disciplinary transgressions across a range of children. Utilizing ethnographic observations and video recordings of quotidian cla…
And I look down and he is gone: Narrating autism, elopement and wandering in Los Angeles
Wandering' and 'elopement' have been identified as common in autism, affecting half of all diagnosed children ages four to ten, yet families rarely receive advice from practitioners even after the fact. Family perspectives have been missing from the literature as well as from public health and policy debates on how and when to respond to this problem. The problem of 'wandering' and 'elopement' reveals a complex intersection of larger issues encou…
The social life of health records: Understanding families' experiences of autism
Narrative introductions: Discourse Competence of Children With Autistic Spectrum Disorders
This article examines the discourse competence of high-functioning children with autistic spectrum disorders (ASD) to participate in narrative introduction sequences with family members. The analysis illuminates the children’s own efforts to launch narratives, as well as their ability to build upon the contributions of others. Ethnographic, discourse analytic methodology is integrated with the theory of discourse organization and the weak central…
A Phenomenological Approach to the Cultivation of Expertise: Emergent Understandings of Autism
In this article, we draw on narrative phenomenological (Mattingly 2010) and ethnographic projects to investigate how phenomenology may contribute to understanding how practical, experientially gained, expertise is cultivated in extraordinary circumstances. The lived world of autism provides a compelling context for such an exploration. Drawing on ethnographic data, we present arguments related to how a phenomenological approach to understanding a…
When the dog bites’: What can we learn about health geography from newspaper coverage in a ‘model city’ for dog-bite prevention
You Can Turn off the Light If You'd Like: Pediatric Health Care Visits for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder as an Interactional Achievement
Substantial scholarship has been generated in medical anthropology and other social science fields on typically developing child-parent-doctor interactions during health care visits. This article contributes an ethnographic, longitudinal, discourse analytic account of a child with autism spectrum disorder (ASD)-parent-doctor interactions that occur during pediatric and neurology visits. The analysis shows that when a child with ASD walks into the…
Doing, Being and Becoming: The Sociality of Children with Autism in Activities with Therapy Dogs and Other People
This article examines theories of sociality against ethnographically informed understandings of the sociality of children affected by Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) interacting with therapy dogs and other people. I explore from an occupational science and occupational therapy perspective how theories of human sociality inform our understanding of the ways in which a child's social engagement is supported during child-dog interactions; and how an…
Introduction: Discourse and Autism
If I was a different ethnicity, would she treat me the same?’: Latino parents’ experiences obtaining autism services
This article reports on an ethnographic study with 12 Latino families of children on the autism spectrum related to obtaining autism services in Los Angeles County. Using critical discourse analysis of interviews, observations, and records, we consider the experiences of the Latino families in relation to: 1) A discursively constructed 'autism parent' subject position that mandates 'fighting' service systems to 'win' autism services for children,…
Understanding connectivity: The parallax and disruptive-productive effects of mixed methods social network analysis in occupational science
This article introduces social network analysis (SNA), a theoretical perspective accompanied by a set of methodologies, to occupational science. The convergence of SNA and occupational science is timely for both fields. By providing methodological approaches that flesh out a structural view of social networks, SNA measurements and mathematical terminology can effectively bridge the complexity of diverse interpretive frameworks used to understand …
Inclusion as Social Practice: Views of Children with Autism
This study illuminates the social realities of inclusion of 16 high functioning children with autism (HFA) in public schools in the United States. The study suggests that the practice of inclusion rests primarily on unaffected schoolmates rather than teachers, who typically are occupied monitoring academic progress and disciplinary transgressions across a range of children. Utilizing ethnographic observations and video recordings of quotidian cla…
Understanding Williams Syndrome: Behavioral patterns and interventions
Eleanor Semel & Sue R. Rosner . Understanding Williams Syndrome: Behavioral patterns and interventions . Mahwah, NJ & London: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2003. Pp. xxi, 456. Hb $99.95, pb $45.00. “I never knew talent was a birth defect,” Jonas Salk has been quoted as saying about Williams Syndrome (cf. Bellugi & St. George 2001:xii), referring to the discrepancy between the extraordinary language abilities of persons with WS and their overall in…
Narrative introductions: Discourse Competence of Children With Autistic Spectrum Disorders
This article examines the discourse competence of high-functioning children with autistic spectrum disorders (ASD) to participate in narrative introduction sequences with family members. The analysis illuminates the children’s own efforts to launch narratives, as well as their ability to build upon the contributions of others. Ethnographic, discourse analytic methodology is integrated with the theory of discourse organization and the weak central…
Introduction: Discourse and Autism
Autism and the Social World: An Anthropological Perspective
This article offers an anthropological perspective on autism, a condition at once neurological and social, which complements existing psychological accounts of the disorder, expanding the scope of inquiry from the interpersonal domain, in which autism has been predominantly examined, to the socio-cultural one. Persons with autism need to be viewed not only as individuals in relation to other individuals, but as members of social groups and commun…
Limitations and transformations of habitus in Child-Directed Communication
This article offers an alternative approach to paradigms that cast culture solely as a nurturing influence on children's language development. It proposes a dimensional model of Child-Directed Communication (CDC) to delineate ways in which a community's habitus may impede the communicative potential of children with neuro-developmental conditions such as severe autism. It argues that certain features of Euro-American CDC are illadapted for autist…
Autism across Cultures Unstrange Minds: Remapping the World of Autism: A Father, a Daughter, and the Search for New Answers . By Roy Richard Grinker. New York: Basic Books, 2007
Sense and the Senses: Anthropology and the Study of Autism
As a clinical category and a sociocultural phenomenon, autism occupies a prominent albeit ambiguous place in ongoing social science and humanities debates about empathy, intersubjectivity, intentionality, epistemological certainty, and moral agency. Autism is used as a counterexample to feeling empathy and understanding other people's beliefs and intentions. Alternatively, it is given as evidence of the limitless potential and neurodiversity of t…
What a Dog Can Do: Children with Autism and Therapy Dogs in Social Interaction
For almost 50 years specially trained dogs have been used in clinical and family settings to facilitate how children with autism engage in social interaction and participate in everyday activities. Yet little theoretical grounding and empirical study of this socioclinical phenomenon has been offered by social science. This article draws on interdisciplinary scholarship to situate the study of the therapeutic use of dogs for children and teens wit…
Autistic Sociality
This article is based on our decade-long linguistic anthropological research on children with autism to introduce the notion of "autistic sociality" and to discuss its implications for an anthropological understanding of sociality. We define human sociality as consisting of a range of possibilities for social coordination with others that is influenced by the dynamics of both individuals and social groups. We argue that autistic sociality is one …
Introduction: Autism: Rethinking the Possibilities
This special issue ofEthosbrings together the work of scholars from multiple disciplines including anthropology, occupational science, and education. The authors share two main goals. First, this interdisciplinary collection of articles highlights the importance of rethinking research on autism. Each article encourages movement away from dominant biomedical discourses that focus largely on symptoms to a more phenomenological and ethnographic stan…
Sociality: New Directions
Doing, Being and Becoming: The Sociality of Children with Autism in Activities with Therapy Dogs and Other People
This article examines theories of sociality against ethnographically informed understandings of the sociality of children affected by Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) interacting with therapy dogs and other people. I explore from an occupational science and occupational therapy perspective how theories of human sociality inform our understanding of the ways in which a child's social engagement is supported during child-dog interactions; and how an…
And I look down and he is gone: Narrating autism, elopement and wandering in Los Angeles
Wandering' and 'elopement' have been identified as common in autism, affecting half of all diagnosed children ages four to ten, yet families rarely receive advice from practitioners even after the fact. Family perspectives have been missing from the literature as well as from public health and policy debates on how and when to respond to this problem. The problem of 'wandering' and 'elopement' reveals a complex intersection of larger issues encou…
The social life of health records: Understanding families' experiences of autism
“But-He’ll Fall!”: Children with Autism, Interspecies Intersubjectivity, and the Problem of ‘Being Social’
You can turn off the light if you'd like: Pediatric Healthcare Visits for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder as an Interactional Achievement
You Can Turn off the Light If You'd Like: Pediatric Health Care Visits for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder as an Interactional Achievement
Substantial scholarship has been generated in medical anthropology and other social science fields on typically developing child-parent-doctor interactions during health care visits. This article contributes an ethnographic, longitudinal, discourse analytic account of a child with autism spectrum disorder (ASD)-parent-doctor interactions that occur during pediatric and neurology visits. The analysis shows that when a child with ASD walks into the…
If I was a different ethnicity, would she treat me the same?’: Latino parents’ experiences obtaining autism services
This article reports on an ethnographic study with 12 Latino families of children on the autism spectrum related to obtaining autism services in Los Angeles County. Using critical discourse analysis of interviews, observations, and records, we consider the experiences of the Latino families in relation to: 1) A discursively constructed 'autism parent' subject position that mandates 'fighting' service systems to 'win' autism services for children,…
A Phenomenological Approach to the Cultivation of Expertise: Emergent Understandings of Autism
In this article, we draw on narrative phenomenological (Mattingly 2010) and ethnographic projects to investigate how phenomenology may contribute to understanding how practical, experientially gained, expertise is cultivated in extraordinary circumstances. The lived world of autism provides a compelling context for such an exploration. Drawing on ethnographic data, we present arguments related to how a phenomenological approach to understanding a…
Beyond V40.31: Narrative Phenomenology of Wandering in Autism and Dementia
When the dog bites’: What can we learn about health geography from newspaper coverage in a ‘model city’ for dog-bite prevention
Early Childhood Obesity Among Underserved Families: A Multilevel Community–Academic Partnership
A community–academic partnership, based on a social–ecological framework, addressed pediatric obesity by implementing a multilevel intervention for underserved families in Los Angeles, California. Individual- and interpersonal-level outcomes included significant positive changes in preschoolers’ identification of unhealthy foods and in parents’ shopping, cooking, and parenting behaviors. Organizational-, community-, and policy-level outcomes incl…
Understanding connectivity: The parallax and disruptive-productive effects of mixed methods social network analysis in occupational science
This article introduces social network analysis (SNA), a theoretical perspective accompanied by a set of methodologies, to occupational science. The convergence of SNA and occupational science is timely for both fields. By providing methodological approaches that flesh out a structural view of social networks, SNA measurements and mathematical terminology can effectively bridge the complexity of diverse interpretive frameworks used to understand …
Using Community-Partnered Participatory Research to Value the “Community Lens” and Promote Equity in Community–Academic Partnerships
Background: Community input is crucial for identifying characteristics necessary for equitable, sustainable community-academic partnerships (CAPs). A November 2021 conference, honoring the late Dr. Loretta Jones and the Community-Partnered Participatory Research (CPPR) model, was held to gather input for designing a learning institute for community members as co-equal partners with academics in research, program, and policy initiatives. This crea…
Psychology (22 works) · Autism (19 works) · Developmental psychology (18 works) · Autism Spectrum Disorder Research (17 works) · Sociology (17 works) · Political science (9 works) · Social science (9 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Family and Disability Support Research (7 works)