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Abstract
his handbook offers a new perspective for those supporting people with ASD and/or profound and multiple learning disabilities. It offers practical advice for ways that we can help to alleviate the distress that may be at the route of such behaviours, by communicating with people on their own terms.
Table of Contents
| Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cover | i | ||
| Copyright | iii | ||
| Quote | 1 | ||
| Acknowledgements | 2 | ||
| Contents | i | ||
| About the authors | v | ||
| Foreword | 1 | ||
| Person to Person | 5 | ||
| Introduction | 7 | ||
| Chapter 1 First steps to learning | 11 | ||
| Chapter 2 Finding the way in | 17 | ||
| Chapter 3 Using the person’s language | 37 | ||
| Chapter 4 Getting the balance right | 43 | ||
| Chapter 5 Finding the right approach | 49 | ||
| Chapter 6 Equipment and interactive activities | 57 | ||
| Chapter 7 Empowerment and respect | 83 | ||
| Appendix | 89 | ||
| References | 95 | ||
| You Don’t Know What It’s Like | 97 | ||
| Introduction | 99 | ||
| Chapter 1 ‘Is he one of us?’ The consensus of acceptable response | 105 | ||
| Chapter 2 ‘I know what I’m doing’ Repetitive behaviours | 111 | ||
| Chapter 3 ‘A whole lot of confused jumbles’ What ASD ‘feels’ like | 115 | ||
| Chapter 4 ‘When’s the bus coming?’ The uncertainty of time | 129 | ||
| Chapter 5 ‘The man who walked backwards’ The validity of individual logic | 133 | ||
| Chapter 6 ‘A safe place inside myself’Two worlds | 137 | ||
| Chapter 7 ‘The lady with the knife’Resonant imaging | 145 | ||
| Chapter 8 ‘May I come in?’The idea of control | 151 | ||
| Chapter 9 ‘Intimate attention’The empowering force of Intensive Interaction | 153 | ||
| Chapter 10 ‘Speech may be sound without meaning’Communication and comprehension | 159 | ||
| Chapter 11 ‘Yes or no?’ Making choices | 167 | ||
| Chapter 12 ‘Copy and paste’ Transferring a positive emotional load | 173 | ||
| Chapter 13 ‘A safe box and a scary box’Containment and holding | 179 | ||
| Chapter 14 ‘Difficult’ behaviour Rewiring the brain | 185 | ||
| Chapter 15 ‘Bit’ Transitional phenomena and reducing stress | 189 | ||
| Chapter 16 How can we help? | 193 | ||
| Chapter 17 What do we mean by success? | 197 | ||
| Chapter 18 ‘Back where we started’ Reciprocal attempts to communicate | 199 | ||
| Chapter 19 A GP’s viewpoint | 203 | ||
| References | 211 | ||
| Resources | 213 | ||
| Crossing the Minefield | 215 | ||
| Introduction | 217 | ||
| Chapter 1 The uses of surprise | 221 | ||
| Chapter 2 Drawing back the curtains | 229 | ||
| Chapter 3 Crossing the minefield | 235 | ||
| Chapter 4 We didn’t believe you | 243 | ||
| Chapter 5 Over and over again | 247 | ||
| Chapter 6 Finding each other | 253 | ||
| Chapter 7 More to seeing than meets the eye | 269 | ||
| Chapter 8 Who’s afraid of whom? | 275 | ||
| Conclusion | 283 | ||
| References | 287 | ||
| Pavilion Publishing | 289 |