Using Intensive Interaction and Sensory Integration

A Handbook for Those who Support People with Severe Autistic Spectrum Disorder

Phoebe Caldwell
With Jane Horwood

Paperback: £12.99 / $22.95

2008, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 112pp
ISBN: 978-1-84310-626-5, BIC 2: MMZ

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People with severe autism experience the sensory information they receive from the world completely differently to those not on the spectrum. They feel cut off and overwhelmed, and their behaviour can become very distressed. This handbook shows how we can engage with people who are non-verbal or semi-verbal and sometimes even those who have speech but lose the power to process it when they are in crisis. We can help them to make sense of the world.

Intensive Interaction uses a person’s own body language to make contact with them and Sensory Integration develops the capacity of an individual to receive, process and apply meaning to information provided by the senses through targeted physical activities. These techniques can be used to develop an environment tailored to the particular sensory needs of the person with severe autism, reducing factors that cause distress.

With illustrations, case examples and a wide range of tried-and-tested techniques, this practical guide provides indispensable tools for parents, carers and other professionals supporting people with severe autism and other learning disabilities.

Press coverage

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.

Blog posts

Article by Phoebe Caldwell: Using Intensive Interaction to turn ‘aloneness’ into shared interest

15 January 2010

"Contrary to what is normally understood, children on the autistic spectrum do recognise when we use their own body language to communicate, provided we respond using the repertoire of their personal behaviours. We are shifting their attention from solitary self-stimulation to shared activity, remembering that what is important is not just what they do - but how they do it, since this tells us how they feel."

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Author information

• Phoebe Caldwell
• Jane Horwood

Subject areas

• Disability
• Asperger Syndrome, Autism and other Syndromes

Keywords

• adults,
• Asperger syndrome,
• autism,
• intellectual disabilities,
• occupational therapy,
• sensory issues,
• sensory stimulation

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