Promoting social interaction for individuals with communicative impairments : making contact / edited by M. Suzanne Zeedyk.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Zeedyk, M. Suzanne (Mary Suzanne), 1963-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

People with disabilities--Means of communication.

People with disabilities.

Communicative disorders--Patients--Rehabilitation.

Communicative disorders.

Communicative disorders--Social aspects.

Physical Description:

192 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; Philadelphia : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2008.

Summary:

All humans have an innate need and ability to communicate with others, and this book presents successful approaches to nurturing communicative abilities in people who have some type of communicative impairment.

The contributors explore a wide range of approaches, including intensive interaction, co-creative communication, sensory integration and music therapy, for a variety of impairments, including autism, profound learning disabilities, deafblindness, severe early neglect and dementia. This wide perspective provides insight into what it feels like to struggle with a communicative impairment, and how those who work with and care about such individuals can and should think more creatively about how to make contact with them.

Covering both the theory and practical implementation of different interventions, this is an invaluable book for health and social work professionals, psychologists, psychotherapists, counsellors, and speech and language therapists, as well as researchers, teachers and students in these fields.

Contents:

Bridging a spectrum of communicative impairments / M. Suzanne Zeedyk

Origins of communication

Intuition for human communication / Colwyn Trevarthen

The universality of musical communication communicative impairments / Raymond A. R. MacDonald

The use of imitation with children with an autistic spectrum disorder : foundations for shared communication / Michelle B. ONeill, Martyn C. Jones, & M. Suzanne Zeedyk

Sharing communicative landscapes with congenitally deafblind people : its a walk in the park! / Paul Hart

Using imitation to establish channels of communication with institutionalised / Clifford E. Davies, M. Suzanne Zeedyk, Sarah Walls , Naomi Betts & Sarah Parry

Children in romania: bridging the gap

Developing relationships with people with profound learning disabilities through intensive interactions / Pete Coia & Angela Jardine Handley

A new approach to communicating with people with advanced dementia : a case study of adaptive interaction / Maggie P. Ellis & Arlene J. Astell

A closer look at interventions

Video interaction guidance : a bridge to better interactions for individuals / Hilary Kennedy & Heather Sked

With communication impairments

Sensory integration : from spinning to sitting, from sitting to smiling / Jane Horwood

Intensive interaction : getting in touch with a child with severe autism / Phoebe Caldwell.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9781843105398

184310539X

OCLC:

180079771