Cath Irvine
Cath is, by profession a Speech and Language Therapist who has 15 years of experience in working with Intensive Interaction and supporting staff to use the approach.
In 1995 Cath introduced Intensive Interaction to Somerset Adult Learning Disability Services and developed the training of coordinators to teach, role model, support and evaluate the approach with service users.
Since 2005 Cath has been alternating freelance Intensive Interaction work in the UK with work in Eastern Europe with children in institutional care.
Cath is a founder member of the Intensive Interaction Institute and has a passion for empowering and supporting hands-on staff to use Intensive Interaction on a day-to-day basis rather than people viewing the approach as something only the ‘experts’ can do. She delivers training – mostly in-house/within organisation for Intensive Interaction Coordinators Courses and Endorsed Practitioners Courses.
Cath also teaches 2 of the modules of Dave Hewett’s Intensive Interaction Coordinator courses – her modules are focused on systemic and sustainable use of the approach in the coordinators workplace.