An ‘Intensive Interaction Institute Open Research Forum’

The Intensive Interaction Institute is hosting the first-ever ‘Intensive Interaction Institute Open Research Forum’ on Tuesday, 21st October from 4:30pm – 5:30pm (UK time). Read on for more information

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.

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 …

Intensive Interaction as an intervention approach in children with autism spectrum disorder: a systematic review

For my first Blog of 2024 I am directing readers to a new systemic review on using Intensive Interaction with children with autism.

‘Mothers’ experience of Intensive Interaction’ – a research paper

Given my current interest in the parental view of Intensive Interaction, for my Blog this week I am posting a summary of a research paper into ‘Mothers’ experience of Intensive Interaction’. Follow the link to access the summary …

A direct link between sociability and sensory processing disorder?

I was recently notified of a paper: Fotoglou, A. et al (2023) ‘Sociability: The key to sensory processing disorder’, Brazilian Journal of Science and Technology, Vol. 2 (No.1), p. 82-97. The paper sets out evidence to support a direct link between sociability and sensory processing disorder. Read on for more information …

New paper on using ‘Adaptive Interaction’ with people with dementia

My Blog this week is about a new paper on ‘Using Adaptive Interaction to Simplify Caregiver’s Communication with People with Dementia Who Cannot Speak’ (in Frontiers in Communication, Jan 2022). Read on for more …

The ‘Efficacy of Intensive Interaction’ … 25 years on from Melanie Nind’s ground-breaking Intensive Interaction research paper.

For my Blog this week I look back at Melanie Nind’s ground-breaking paper on the ‘Efficacy of Intensive Interaction’, published 25 years ago.