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About the authors |
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Acknowledgements |
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Part 1 Human communication and the background to Intensive Interaction |
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1 The nature of human communication |
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2 Background to Intensive Interaction |
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The history of Intensive Interaction |
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The 1980s - the start of Intensive Interaction |
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The 1990s - things move on |
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2000-10 - a new millennium |
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Into the future - 2010 onwards... |
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What is Intensive Interaction? |
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Who is Intensive Interaction for? |
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What does Intensive Interaction teach? The `fundamentals of communication' |
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The nature of communication work in our services |
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3 How do human beings start learning to communicate? |
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Part 2 Practicalities of doing Intensive Interaction |
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4 Preparing for Intensive Interaction |
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The Principles of Intensive Interaction |
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What help do we take from looking at the `natural model' of infancy? |
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So, what are Intensive Interaction sessions like? |
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Simple, enjoyable activities |
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Intensive Interaction activities or sessions can take many forms |
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The activities develop and change |
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What equipment or resources do we need? |
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Intensive Interaction practitioners do need a flexible range of behaviour |
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Planning or preparation for activities? |
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Who are you going to do Intensive Interaction with? |
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Write a programme or scheme of work? |
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The whole team goes for it together? |
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Or the team goes for it perhaps one by one? |
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45 | (23) |
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The person is truly `difficult to reach' |
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The person presents as seeming to be very difficult to reach, but actually is not |
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The person is quite social and available, but undeveloped as a communicator |
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Responsiveness ideas and the `available' look |
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Where to be? Placing yourself |
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Try out some ways of responding |
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Examples of making access |
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Do you prompt or initiate in order to get things going? |
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No observable success in the first and subsequent early try-outs |
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Early success and progress |
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Consolidating your first successes and gradually moving on |
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Keep going with what you have established |
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How do Intensive Interaction activities end? |
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The person gets very excited, the activity can get out of control |
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6 Further and continuing progress |
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Progress - activities and sessions are working and `spiralling' |
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Further development and progress feels gradual and seamless |
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Keep doing frequent, regular activities or sessions |
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Carry on enjoying everything |
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Repetition and repertoire |
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Spillover and `interactivity' |
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Ways of developing variety |
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Recognising progress outcomes |
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Feeling comfortable with `emergence' |
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Mid- to long-term possibilities |
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The person is absolutely flying with progress and development |
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It occurs so quickly and naturally it is difficult to keep track Progression seems slow and painstaking, but we are realistic and we know where we are |
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We seemed to be doing really well with her or him for quite a while, but now we are just in a rut |
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Everything is progressing quite well; you can appreciate the sense of natural momentum and gradual achievements |
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She or he is starting to be involved in more speech and language exchanges |
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She or he is starting to do and get involved in all sorts of things |
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Ultimately, how far will the person go? |
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7 Recording the activities and maintaining the processes |
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Observation and recording |
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Recording what you are doing |
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Short term: what to record |
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Finally - the `handover' record |
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103 | (4) |
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104 | (1) |
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Using the camera: brief considerations |
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Using video as evidence of learning and progress |
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Framework for recognising progress |
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Using video evidence to encourage colleagues |
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110 | (4) |
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8 Supporting Intensive Interaction in workplaces |
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115 | (10) |
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Best working atmosphere for supporting Intensive Interaction work? |
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Methodical, organised collaboration |
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Settings: special schools |
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Integrating Intensive Interaction with other work and approaches |
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Settings: adult residential and day services |
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121 | (1) |
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Settings: the Interactive Cafe |
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122 | (3) |
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9 Doing Intensive Interaction at home |
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125 | (6) |
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Learning how to make connections |
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125 | (1) |
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Finding the moments and places |
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126 | (2) |
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Sometimes he is under the weather |
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Other family members and friends |
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Relating to the professionals |
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Record-keeping in the family |
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129 | (1) |
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Parents in a `community of practice' |
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130 | (1) |
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Part 3 Issues, topics and community |
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10 Some associated issues and topics |
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133 | (9) |
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`Age-appropriateness' and developmental appropriateness |
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133 | (2) |
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135 | (3) |
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138 | (1) |
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139 | (3) |
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11 The Intensive Interaction community |
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The Intensive Interaction `Community of Practice' |
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142 | (4) |
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The Intensive Interaction Institute |
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146 | (1) |
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The Intensive Interaction newsletters |
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147 | (2) |
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The Intensive Interaction Regional Support Groups |
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149 | (2) |
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Intensive Interaction on the World Wide Web |
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151 | (2) |
Bibliography |
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Index |
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