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Book SynopsisResponsive Communication will benefit support staff, professionals and family members supporting autistic adults and children and people with profound and multiple learning disabilities.
Trade Review"Phoebe Caldwell has found some unique paths to achieving deep and meaningful engagement with autistic people and people with profound and multiple learning disabilities. Families and carers are in awe of the deep and intuitive connections she is able to make, adapting her way of being with and responding to each person; Through her practice of Intensive Interaction over several decades, Phoebe has illuminated the way in which sensory issues can impede communication and emotional engagement of autistic individuals with others. She has shown how both hypo- and hyper-sensitivities can contribute to a scrambled sensory input, and how subsequent anxiety results in either hyperarousal (sometimes seen as `meltdowns') or hypo-arousal (sometimes seen as `shutdowns'). These sensory issues are often unrecognised by professionals, families and other observers, as they are not routinely part of the experience of those who do not have autism. When sensory triggers are not anticipated or recognised, distress may manifest as behaviours that challenge. The authors of this book share their different perspectives, while also all being practitioners of Responsive Communication."; Professor Sheila the Baroness Hollins
Table of ContentsForeword Professor Sheila the Baroness Hollins Introduction Chapter 1: Attention to sensory issues: hyper- and hypo-sensitivities Phoebe Caldwell Chapter 2: Unrecognised autism Hope Lightowler Chapter 3: Us in a Bus and Intensive Interaction Janet Gurney Chapter 4: Addressing sensory issues and body language with autistic people: Responsive Communication from an occupational therapy perspective Jennifer Heath Chapter 5: Autism support in Cumbria: understanding behaviour and supporting change Jemma Swales Chapter 6: A one year Responsive Communication pilot project in Carmarthenshire Kate Richardson Chapter: 7: A psychiatrist's perspective on Responsive Communication Dr Elspeth Bradley
