From Isolation to Intimacy

From Isolation to Intimacy

Making Friends without Words

Phoebe Caldwell
With Jane Horwood

Paperback: £12.99 / $19.95 add to cart

2007, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 192pp
ISBN: 978-1-84310-500-8

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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 straightforward and uncomplicated way, through attending to body language and other non-verbal means of communication, of establishing contact and building a relationship with people who are non-verbal, even those in a state of considerable distress. This simple method is accessible to anyone who lives or works with such people, and is shown to transform lives and to introduce a sense of fun, of participation and of intimacy, as trust and familiarity are established.

Press coverage

Author wins Times/Sternberg Award for pioneering autism treatment

Congratulations to author Phoebe Caldwell on winning the Times/Sternberg Award 2009 for her work with people with autism. The award celebrates the achievements of people aged 70 or over who have done most for society and good causes in their older age.

Phoebe, who was nominated by another of JKP's authors, M. Suzanne Zeedyk, will collect her well deserved award from 10 Downing Street along with the runners up.

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How to communicate with autistic children

Click here to read a fantastic article by Phoebe Caldwell featured in The Times. Phoebe writes about her work with children with autism and Intensive Interaction.

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