Intensive Interaction Blog
The Intensive Interaction blog contains articles from past conferences and contributor articles. Please contact us if you've got material that our readers will find interesting.
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Intensive Interaction Coordinator’s Course
Posted by Nicola Guthrie on Sunday, 22nd November 2009 20:20 PM
Nine complete strangers, one developer/author; drawn to each other sharing the same passion, the same belief and the same quest: to be guided and nurtured towards being ambassadors in the realm that is Intensive Interaction. Read more
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What I’ve been up to lately...
Posted by Cath Irvine on Thursday, 19th November 2009 18:00 PM
Embarrassingly it has been a few years since I updated this section to keep people up to date with what I have been doing – so a brief summary of the last couple of years. Read more
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UNICEF support Intensive Interaction implementation in Montenegro
Posted by Cath Irvine on Thursday, 22nd October 2009 20:15 PM
Last year UNICEF Montenegro and the Montenegrin government invited me to work with 14 children who lived in an institution alongside over 100 adults – all with disabilities of varying degrees. The children ranged in age from 5 – 17, some with diagnoses of autism or cerebral palsy, but others with no... Read more
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Facilitated ‘Collaborative Workshops’
Posted by Graham Firth on Monday, 22nd June 2009 23:00 PM
At the conference, in the first afternoon session there were six Collaborative Workshops. In these workshops group of delegates discussed particular issues and attempted to agree benchmarking statements that might help others who might work in similar ways. Read more
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The Keynote Address: Where have we come from? Where do we want to go? and how can research help us get there?
Posted by M. Suzanne Zeedyk on Monday, 22nd June 2009 20:48 PM
The aim of my address at the Intensive Interaction Conference was to create a space in which we could reflect on the range of domains in which Intensive Interaction has now been shown to be effective. This emerging research evidence pushes us to think in richer ways about the nature of Intensive... Read more -
Using Intensive Interaction with an Adult with a Sensory Impairment
Posted by Nicola Guthrie on Wednesday, 10th June 2009 16:00 PM
This case study introduced Stephen and how we both came together with Intensive Interaction experiencing developing “The Fundamentals of Communication”; how we are achieving our only objective, which is to find and maintain the “natural flow.” We look at the... Read more -
Valuing People Now: 2009 ‘Making it happen for everyone’
Posted by Graham Firth on Tuesday, 10th March 2009 16:00 PM
Intensive Interaction now explicit UK Government policy! Read more -
Choosing a Camcorder for Intensive Interaction
Posted by Mark Booth on Wednesday, 10th December 2008 17:00 PM
My guide to choosing the right camcorder for Intensive Interaction. Read more
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‘Do Touch’
Posted by Dave Hewett on Wednesday, 10th September 2008 16:00 PM
Right from the start of the Harperbury Hospital School development work on Intensive Interaction in 1982 or so, we were quickly aware that the activities could involve a great deal of pleasurable physical contact. People who are at early levels of development can tend to be extremely physical,... Read more
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Intensive Interaction Implementation Projects
Posted by Cath Irvine on Saturday, 22nd December 2007 18:31 PM
Intensive Interaction (II) is a most wonderful, natural, instinctive, free-flowing approach to working with people with severe learning disabilities. It makes sense that the ways in which II is introduced and supported within any organisation reflects the ethos of the approach. Read more