The Intensive Interaction Handbook 2/e

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.

Part I: Human communication and the background to Intensive Interaction Chapter 1: The nature of human communication - Dave Hewett Chapter 2: Background to Intensive Interaction - Graham Firth & Jules McKim Chapter 3: How do human beings start learning to communicate? - Dave Hewett Part II: Practicalities of doing Intensive Interaction Chapter 4: Preparing for Intensive Interaction - Dave Hewett Chapter 5: Getting going - Dave Hewett Chapter 6: Further and continuing progress - Dave Hewett Chapter 7: Recording the activities and maintaining the processes - Mark Barber Chapter 8: The Intensive Interaction Outcomes Reporter - Julie Calveley Chapter 9: Supporting Intensive Interaction in workplaces - Graham Firth & Dave Hewett Chapter 10: Autism and Intensive Interaction & Intensive Interaction with more able people - Amandine Mouriere Chapter 11: Doing Intensive Interaction at home - Tandy Harrison Part III: Issues, topics and community Chapter 12: Some associated issues and topics - Dave Hewett Chapter 13: The Intensive Interaction community - Graham Firth & Jules McKim

This book is an essential, comprehensive guide for anyone who wants to make a real difference in the life of people at the early stages of communication. With the welcome addition of a chapter relating to Autism and using Intensive Interaction with more able people this second edition of the Intensive Interaction handbook promises much and delivers more! -- Susi Stephenson This book is aimed at teachers, support staff, speech and language therapists, carers and parents who look after and support people with profound and complex learning difficulties, and autism. It guides you through the Intensive Interaction approach developed by Dave Hewett in the 1980s when he worked in a school near London... This workbook is well-furnished with case studies, photographs, advice and tips on methods, approaches and practice. -- Alan Thomson * inTuition, professional journal of the Society for Education and Training *