Author Archives: Graham Firth

‘Intensive Interaction in the mainstream classroom’: 10 years on …

It is now ten years since the publication of the paper ‘Intensive Interaction in the mainstream classroom: evaluating staff attitudes towards an inclusive socio-communicative intervention’: read on for more…

Catherine’s Legacy – 20 years on.

It is 20 years since a paper was published that I think is hugely powerful, and one that I often directly quote from during the training that I give. Read on for more …

The 7 ‘stages’ or ‘levels’ of Intensive Interaction: who and/or what are we actually measuring, and whose needs are we trying to meet?

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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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.

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 …