Title From isolation to intimacy : making friends without words / Phoebe Caldwell with Jane Horwood.

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London ; Philadelphia : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2007.

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Description	1 online resource (188 pages)
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-182) and indexes.
Contents	Introduction -- First encounters -- Attention -- Stress -- Body language -- What are we trying to do? -- Theory of mind -- How well does using a person's body language work? -- Three children on the autistic spectrum -- Cerebral palsy -- Does age matter? -- Changing rooms -- Lost voices, learned language -- Rub it better -- What next?
Note	Print version record.
Summary	If you have no language, how can you make yourself understood, let alone make friends? Phoebe Caldwell has worked for many years with people with severe intellectual disabilities and/or autistic spectrum disorder who are non-verbal, and whose inability to communicate has led to unhappy and often violent behaviour. In this new book she explores the nature of close relationships, and shows how these are based not so much on words as on the ability to listen, pay attention, and respond in terms that are familiar to the other person. This is the key to Intensive Interaction, which she shows is a s.
Subject	Autistic people -- Rehabilitation.
	Learning disabled -- Rehabilitation.
	Nonverbal communication.
	Interpersonal relations.
	Intimacy (Psychology)
	Autistic Disorder.
	Interpersonal Relations.
	Learning Disabilities.
	Nonverbal Communication.
	PSYCHOLOGY -- Psychopathology -- Autism Spectrum Disorders.
	Autistic people -- Rehabilitation. (OCoLC)fst01758838
	Interpersonal relations. (OCoLC)fst00977397
	Intimacy (Psychology) (OCoLC)fst00977714
	Learning disabled -- Rehabilitation. (OCoLC)fst00994932
	Nonverbal communication. (OCoLC)fst01039009
Genre/Form	Case Reports.
Added Author	Horwood, Jane, 1961-
Other Form:	Print version: Caldwell, Phoebe. From isolation to intimacy. London ; Philadelphia : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2007 9781843105008 1843105004 (DLC) 2006038060 (OCoLC)76792032
ISBN	9781435602816 (electronic bk.)
	1435602811 (electronic bk.)

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