From isolation to intimacy : making friends without words /
If you have no language, how can you make yourself understood, let alone make friends? Phoebe Caldwell has worked for many years with people with severe intellectual disabilities and/or autistic spectrum disorder who are non-verbal, and whose inability to communicate has led to unhappy and often vio...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; Philadelphia :
Jessica Kingsley Publishers,
2007.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | If you have no language, how can you make yourself understood, let alone make friends? Phoebe Caldwell has worked for many years with people with severe intellectual disabilities and/or autistic spectrum disorder who are non-verbal, and whose inability to communicate has led to unhappy and often violent behaviour. In this new book she explores the nature of close relationships, and shows how these are based not so much on words as on the ability to listen, pay attention, and respond in terms that are familiar to the other person. This is the key to Intensive Interaction, which she shows is a s. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (188 pages) |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-182) and indexes. |
ISBN: | 9781435602816 1435602811 1846426189 9781846426186 1843105004 9781843105008 1281105317 9781281105318 |