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The Intensive Interaction Handbook
Author(s): Dave Hewett (Author), Mark Barber (Author), Graham Firth (Author), Tandy Harrison (Author)
- Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
- Publication Date: 9 Nov. 2011
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 168 pages
- ISBN-10: 0857024914
- ISBN-13: 9780857024916
Book Description
It considers:
– preparing for intensive interaction
– observing intensive interaction in progress
– doing intensive interaction at home and at work
– teamwork
– wellbeing
– record-keeping
This book is a straightforward guide for anyone wanting to use intensive interaction with people with severe and complex learning difficulties, people who have very severe learning difficulties, profound and multiple learning difficulties, multi-sensory impairments, and people who have a diagnosis of autism.
Editorial Reviews
Review
Nicky Phillips, Educational Psychologist and co-author of ′Teaching Play to Children with Autism′
′The practicalities are covered in detail, as are documentation and record keeping, and this is the strength of this straightforward and useful text′
-SEN Magazine
About the Author
Dr. Dave Hewett has been working in the field of special education for 40 years. He was headteacher at Harperbury Hospital School throughout the 1980s, where he and the team worked on the development of Intensive Interaction, producing the first publications and first research on Intensive Interaction, resulting in his doctorate. With Melanie Nind he produced the first Intensive Interaction book in 1994. Since 1990 he has been an independent consultant, continuing to publish extensively and work on the development and dissemination of the approach. Dave also publishes and gives courses on challenging behaviour issues, though as he maintains in the challenging behaviour section of this book, ‘behaviour difficulties are communication difficulties’. It is therefore not a separate topic. He is now director of the Intensive Interaction Institute, travelling and broadcasting the Intensive Interaction message increasingly worldwide.
