From isolation to intimacy: making friends without words
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1. Verfasser: Caldwell, Phoebe (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: London Jessica Kingsley Publishers 2007
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-182) and indexes
Introduction -- First encounters -- Attention -- Stress -- Body language -- What are we trying to do? -- Theory of mind -- How well does using a person's body language work? -- Three children on the autistic spectrum -- Cerebral palsy -- Does age matter? -- Changing rooms -- Lost voices, learned language -- Rub it better -- What next?
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
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (188 pages)
ISBN:1281105317
1435602811
1846426189
9781281105318
9781435602816
9781846426186

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