Table of Contents

Blind Frogs: The Nature of Human Communication and Intensive Interaction - Dave Hewett
Intensive Interaction, Emotional Development and Emotional Well-Being - Melanie Nind
Interactive Approaches to Teaching and Learning - Penny Lacey
Wired for Communication: How the Neuroscience of Infancy Helps in Understanding the Effectiveness of Intensive Interaction - M. Suzanne Zeedyk
Intensive Interaction and Its Relationship with the Triad of Impairments in ASD - Lydia Swinton
Promoting Communication Rather Than Generating Data - Mark Barber
Intensive Interaction for Inclusion and Development - Graham Firth
Intensive Interaction within Models of Organisational Change - Cath Irvine
What Is Intensive Interaction? Curriculum, Process and Approach - Dave Hewett

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.

Reviews

′This is a very welcome addition to the growing body of literature on Intensive Interaction. By drawing on new findings from neurology and a better understanding of the centrality of communication, it demonstrates the power of Intensive Interaction as a practical intervention for a wide range of practitioners′ -
Seamus Hegarty, Editor of the European Journal of Special Needs Education, Visiting Professor at Warwick and Manchester Metropolitan