Intensive Interaction
There are various strategies and approaches which can be used to help to develop and build on early communication and interaction skills.
One of these is Intensive Interaction. Intensive Interaction is very flexible in its approach. It doesn’t need any special equipment and can be lots of fun for you and your child or young person.
These are some of the things which it can help to develop. These are known as ‘The Fundamentals of Communication’:
- Learning to give brief attention to another person.
- Sharing attention with another person.
- Learning to extend those attentions, learning to concentrate on another person.
- Developing shared attention in activities.
- Taking turns
- To have fun and to play.
- Using and understanding eye contact.
- Using and understanding facial expressions.
- Starting to use and understand gestures and body language.
- Learning to use and understand physical contacts when communicating.
- Learning to use and understand vocalisations, and having them become more varied and extensive, then gradually more precise and meaningful.
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Who is it for?
Anyone! It can be used at any age and any level of need/learning style.
How do we do it?
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Remember - it might take a while before you see any ‘progress’. It takes time to develop these connections.
Take your time: be relaxed, ‘tune in’ to the person you are communicating with; Observe, watch and wait; Allow the person you are communicating with to go first; Respond to that person - what do they do / vocalise / etc? - reflect back and join in.
How / when do we use it?
All day, every day, anytime, anywhere!
Where to find out more!
https://www.youtube.com/user/III209/videos (Dave Hewitt on YouTube)
www.facebook.com/groups/13657123715/
