2 options
Promoting social interaction for individuals with communicative impairments : making contact / edited by M. Suzanne Zeedyk.
- Format:
- Book
- 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:
- 1 online resource (194 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; Philadelphia : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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 communication impairment. The contributors look at 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,
- Contents:
- FRONT COVER; Promoting Social Interaction for Individuals with Communicative Impairments: Making Contact; Contents; Chapter 1 Introduction: Bridging a Spectrum of Communicative Impairments; Part 1: Origins of Communication; Chapter 2 Intuition for Human Communication; Chapter 3 The Universality of Musical Communication; Part 2: Communicative Impairments; Chapter 4 The Use of Imitation with Children with Autistic Spectrum Disorder: Foundations for Shared Communication; Chapter 5 Sharing Communicative Landscapes with Congenitally Deafblind People: It's aWalk in the Park!
- Chapter 6 Using Imitation to Establish Channels of Communication with Institutionalised Children in Romania: Bridging the GapChapter 7 Developing Relationships with People with Profound Learning Disabilities through Intensive Interactions; Chapter 8 A New Approach to Communicating with People with Advanced Dementia: A Case Study of Adaptive Interaction; Part 3: A Closer Look at Interventions; Chapter 9 Video Interaction Guidance:
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9786611793937
- 9781281793935
- 1281793930
- 9781846427831
- 1846427835
- OCLC:
- 309520157
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.