Full Description
Responsive Communication will benefit support staff, professionals and family members supporting autistic adults and children and people with profound and multiple learning disabilities.
Contents
Foreword
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