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Intensive Interaction
Support
for Living supports the use of Intensive Interaction. Lucy Harrison is the Creative Communication worker
whose job it is to promote the use of Intensive Interaction within the
organisation.
To find out more, and to check out forthcoming events, you can email Lucy Harrison, or ring her on 07962 944 944.
You can also follow Lucy's occasional blog on the National Intensive Interaction website.
About Intensive Interaction
The techniques of Intensive Interaction were
formulated specifically for use with people with profound disabilities,
people who generally don’t use words to communicate.
When we use intensive interaction we’re
trying to identify an individual's own language and then learn to speak
it fluently with enthusiasm and creativity. We do this to build rapport
which in turn helps us to create a safe space for someone to step into
and express themselves.
One of the keys is to recognise that whatever someone is doing is
meaningful to them, even if we don’t know what it means and even if it’s
not how we communicate and express ourselves.
Finding out more about Intensive Interaction
The next 'Introduction to Intensive Interaction' courses start in April and Sept 2012. For more details and contact training to book a place click for courses at Westgate House and Lumiere Court.
We also run regular “Practice Development
Groups”, peer support groups for people using this approach.
Click here for more details, no need to
book a place, just turn up.
Library
We have a number of books on Intensive
Interaction available to lend out. Please
click
here for book reviews. Please contact Lucy Harrison on 07962 944
944 or email
Lucy if you would like to
borrow a book.
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Using Intensive Interaction with a person with a Social or Communicative Impairment
by Graham Firth and Mark Barber -
Promoting Social Interaction for individuals with communicative impairments Edited by M. Suzanne Zeedyk
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Access to Communication
By Melanie Nind and Dave Hewett -
From Isolation to Intimacy – Making friends without words
By Phoebe Caldwell -
Creating a Responsive Environment for people with Profound and Multiple Learning Disabilities
By Jean Ware -
The Intensive Interaction Handbook
By Dave Hewett, Graham Firth, Mark Barber and Tandy Harrison
Useful Websites
Please click here for more information about these links.
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Facebook – Intensive Interaction
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Reaching Ricky : A free downloadable video resource from Teachers TV available at: http://www.tes.co.uk/teaching-resource/Reaching-Ricky-6084099/