From isolation to intimacy making friends without words

If you have no language, how can you make yourself understood, let alone make friends? Phoebe Caldwell has worked for many years with people with severe intellectual disabilities and/or autistic spectrum disorder who are non-verbal, and whose inability to communicate has led to unhappy and often vio...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Caldwell, Phoebe (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Jessica Kingsley 2007.
Edición:1st ed
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009797974706719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Front cover; Title Page; Contents; Introduction; Part One Learning the Skills of Interaction; 1 First Encounters; 2 Attention; 3 Stress; 4 Body Language; 5 What Are We Trying to Do?; 6 Theory of Mind; 7 How Well Does Using a Person's Body Language Work?; Part 2 Meeting People; 8 Three Children on the Autistic Spectrum; 9 Cerebral Palsy; 10 Does Age Matter?; 11 Changing Rooms; 12 Lost Voices, Learned Language; 13 Rub It Better; 14 What Next?; REFERENCES; SUBJECT INDEX; AUTHOR INDEX; Back cover;