The book ‘Not a Single Word’ (now republished as an updated edition) contains the utterly ascribed thoughts of a man called Harry Hardacre. Harry is a man with a profound learning disability. Read on for more …
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A one quote Blog!
Read on for more … it just sums everything up!
40 years on…
It was about 40 years ago this week that I started working at Meanwood Park Hospital, a ‘Hospital for the Mentally Handicapped’ … read on for more.
Yet another special education and/or care scandal … but that should come as no surprise.
A deeply distressing, but depressingly familiar story. Read on for more…
‘Gestalt Language Processing’ meets ‘Intensive Interaction’ – Round 2!
For my Blog this week I am following up on my last Blog about ‘Gestalt Language Processing’(GLP) and Intensive Interaction. Read on for more…
‘Gestalt Language Processing’ and Intensive Interaction?
For my Blog this week I am looking into ‘Gestalt Language Processing’ from an Intensive Interaction perspective … a bit. Read on for more.
The physical and mental health benefits of touch … a research review
This Blog reports the results of a systematic research review into ‘the physical and mental health benefits of touch interventions’. Read on for more…
From ‘Access to Communication’ … to a worldwide approach in 30 years!
This year is the 30th anniversary of the first book on Intensive Interaction – ‘Access to Communication’ – and now the approach is truly global. Read on for more…
‘Staff experience of the implementation of Intensive Interaction within their places of work …’
Having re-read a paper on ‘Staff experience of the implementation of Intensive Interaction’ I set out how it fits with the theory of organisational change … read on for more.
The ‘double empathy problem’: Ten years on
I was recently pointed to a decade-on update on Damien Milton’s seminal paper: ‘On the ontological status of autism: The ‘double empathy problem’’. Read on for more …
Connecting with Intensive Interaction 