Finding you, finding me using intensive interaction to get in touch with people with severe learning disabilities combined with autistic spectrum disorder
Caldwell introduces Intensive Interaction, which uses the body language of people whose learning disabilities are combined with autistic spectrum disorder - who have largely been regarded as unreachable - to get in touch with them, giving them a way of expressing themselves which shifts their attent...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Jessica Kingsley
2005.
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| Edición: | 1st ed |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798057406719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- COVER; Finding You Finding Me:Using Intensive Interaction to get in touch with people whose severe learning disabilities are combined with autistic spectrum disorder; Contents; 1.Introduction; What is this book about?; Introducing Christopher, Pranve and Gabriel; Intensive Interaction; Digression into the world of 'feeling'; Whose reality?; ASD and learning disabilities?; Developing interaction; 2.What is Autism?; What does autism feel like?; Overload; Fragmentation; Coping strategies; Fight/flight response; Inducing stress; Descriptions of fragmentation; Looking for meaning; Fixations
- 3.Causes of Stress Hypersensitivities; Vision; Sound; Balance; Touch; Smell and taste; Synaesthesia; Emotional overload; Not knowing what is happening; Speech, understanding and communication; Functional language and emotional access; Hollow words; Getting to know each other; Clarity, gesture, sign and speech; Restricted speech; Swearing - a passive acceptance approach; Delayed echolalia; Time; Choices and change; Hormones; 4. Behaviour - Challenging or Distressed?; Can we have a miracle please?; 'Trading on their autism'; Reducing the sensory overload; Looking for triggers; Aggression
- Self-harm Moving attention away from the inner turmoil; Diversion; Maintenance of successful strategies; Epilepsy; 5.Intensive Interaction; The dynamic of conversations; Seeing things differently; Significance; Imitation; Repetitive behaviour and the brain-body language; Where we are focused - feedback; Surprise; Observation and the individual repertoire; Neglecting the inner-world language; Christopher; Intensive Interaction and attention to the hypersensitivities; Video; Pranve; Gabriel; Working from the present; Using the personal code; Moving attention from 'self ' to 'other'
- The discontinuity in expectation 'Ringing a bell'; Intensive Interaction and stress reduction; Habituation; Long-term effectiveness of Intensive Interaction; 6.The Development of Self; What do we mean by 'self '?; The dual message; Failing to find a sense of self; Raising self-esteem; Significant responses; Gabriel and the dyad; The glass bubble; Separation; Coda; Appendix A:The Causes of ASD; Appendix B: The Way In - Using Intensive Interaction; References; Resources; Subject Index; Author Index
