From isolation to intimacy : making friends without words / Pheobe Caldwell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Caldwell, Phoebe.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nonverbal communication.

Autistic people--Rehabilitation.

Autistic people.

Learning disabled--Rehabilitation.

Learning disabled.

Intimacy (Psychology).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (192 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Jessica Kingsley, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 violent behaviour. In this new book she explores the nature of close relationships, and shows how these are based not so much on words as on the ability to listen, pay attention, and respond in terms that are familiar to the other person. This is the key to Intensive Interaction, which she shows is a s

Contents:

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;

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9786611105310

9781281105318

1281105317

9781846426186

1846426189

9781435602816

1435602811

OCLC:

191925918