I have written this blog in response to a growing trend in advocating for systems that purport to assign discrete social developmental levels to an individual’s performance during periods of Intensive Interaction.
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Author Archives: Graham Firth
Getting Published with Intensive Interaction
This blog contains information on the submission criteria for the most significant academic and research journals that have published Intensive Interaction papers. Read on for more…
The Intensive Interaction Published Research Summaries Document for 2025.
For my Blog this week I am pointing readers to an updated version of the Intensive Interaction Published Research Summaries Document, now for 2025.
‘What is Intensive Interaction?’ – New video available from the Intensive Interaction Institute
What is Intensive Interaction? Good question! Well, there is now a free introductory video available from the Intensive Interaction Institute … follow the link for more.
‘Blind Frogs’: … and Intensive Interaction by Dave Hewett
‘Blind Frogs’: and the nature of human communication and Intensive Interaction.
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Intensive Interaction … and the potential for social communication regression or ‘Holiday effect’?
Intensive Interaction … and the potential for social communication regression or ‘Holiday effect’ from its discontinued use? Read on for more …
An Intensive Interaction response to the UK Education Select Committee … seeking evidence to improve ‘the SEND system’.
In This Blog I have simply copied my response sent to the UK Parliamentary Select Committee seeking evidence to improve ‘the SEND system’. Read on for more …
‘Solving the SEND Crisis’: UK Education Select Committee ‘Call for Evidence’
I have been alerted to a ‘call for evidence’ by the UK Parliamentary Education Select Committee seeking evidence ‘on short term actions to stabilise the SEND system’. Read on for more …
Evidence of mutual non-verbal synchrony in learners with severe learning disability and autism, and their support workers: a motion energy analysis study (because of the use of Intensive Interaction!).
I have recently been pointed to a research study involving the use of Intensive Interaction. This fascinating study looked for ‘Evidence of mutual non-verbal synchrony in learners with a severe learning disability and autism, and their support workers: a motion energy analysis study’: Read on for more …
Connecting the Intensive Interaction ‘Means’ to its ‘Ends’
This Blog is the collective work of the attendees of the Intensive Interaction Weekend Workshop 2024 – where we looked at the ‘means’ to doing good quality, regular, consistent and reflective Intensive Interaction and also at the ‘ends’ of this process i.e. the outcomes of using Intensive Interaction. Read on for more …
Connecting with Intensive Interaction 