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 …
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The end to profiteering from the care of vulnerable children?
Plans aimed at preventing companies running children’s homes in England from making excessive profits have (apparently) been set out by the UK government … read on for more.
‘Not a Single Word’ -now republished.
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 …
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…
Connecting with Intensive Interaction 