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Autism: Respecting Difference is a concise, straightforward
introduction to the sensory and emotional experiences of autism,
designed to help support staff, professionals, and families better
understand and engage with autistic people in order to offer
meaningful and effective support. It is difficult to know how other
people feel, since we all assume we see, hear, and generally
experience the world in the same way. For autistic people, the
world they experience can be very different to ours. Autism:
Respecting Difference is designed to help people who are new to
autism understand how it might feel to be autistic, and how over-
and under-sensitivities to incoming signals can overload the
autistic brain, triggering anxiety and pain. Illustrated by artist
Jodie Zutt, the book takes readers on a journey into the
'brainworld of autism' in order to better understand and support
those who live each day with the challenges of this condition.
Adopting a Responsive Communication approach, it explores how to
reduce sensory overload while simultaneously establishing emotional
engagement and interaction via use of an individual's body language
and themes that have particular meaning for them.
Adopting a predominantly psychological approach, this book provides
carers with up-to-date information and resources to provide
appropriately individualised care to people with learning
disabilities who self-injure. Understanding and Working with People
with Learning Disabilities who Self-Injure synthesises traditional
(behavioural) and newer (psychological) approaches to understanding
self-injury, drawing on psychoanalytic and social theory to provide
practical guidelines for more sustained and effective support. It
suggests that motivations for self-injury may be similar for people
with and without learning disabilities, and draws on case work
examples to suggest person-centred techniques that encourage
communication - particularly important with people who do not use
verbal communication - and recovery. The book covers a range of
specific needs, including people with autism who self-injure, and
emphasises the views of people with learning disabilities
themselves and their families about what has worked best, and why.
At the end of each chapter, a variety of practical implications for
the provision of support are given. This book is for those
supporting people with learning disabilities who self-injure and
will be a useful resource for social workers, psychologists,
counsellors, learning support workers, nurses and social and health
care students.
In her influential and successful book The Anger Box, expert
practitioner Phoebe Caldwell shifted attention away from the
surface symptoms of autism and towards understanding sensory
experiences and alleviating the distress associated with them. 'The
Anger Box' of the title was a drawing by William, then aged six, of
the sensations he felt when he lost control due to sensory
overload. The book ended with William's 'Good Box', representing
his experience of calm and relief. Bringing together ideas and
material from The Anger Box as well as the later Hall of Mirrors,
Shards of Clarity (which explored sense of self), and integrating
updates and findings from a further decade of autism research, The
Good Box gathers and extends insights from a pioneer of the field
now in her ninetieth year. It also reflects a further shift of
focus away from distress and towards acceptance and more positive
interpretations of autistic experiences.
In her new book, Phoebe Caldwell, an expert practitioner with over
30 years' experience working with people with learning
disabilities, offers us a fresh insight into autism spectrum
disorders. Shifting her attention away from presentation and
symptoms alone, Phoebe explores and attempts to understand the
sensory issues experienced by those on the spectrum and their
neurobiological roots in an effort to find new ways of alleviating
the distress that can characterise this condition. The Anger Box is
a book of ideas that spans a wide field of research and will be of
interest to professionals, but it will also appeal to parents with
autistic children, those with a general interest in the subject and
many individuals on the autism spectrum themselves. The book
explores the relationship between pain and external stimuli,
trigeminal neuralgia, visual distortions, sensory overload,
environmental and neurological factors implicated in the
development of ASD, and a wide range of other areas. Drawing upon
her own wealth of experience, the experiences of people on the
spectrum and new scientific research, Phoebe presents a fascinating
and engaging exploration of life on the spectrum, richly textured,
vibrant and above all informative.
Responsive Communication will benefit support staff, professionals
and family members supporting autistic adults and children and
people with profound and multiple learning disabilities.
People with severe autism experience the sensory information they
receive from the world completely differently to those not on the
spectrum. They feel cut off and overwhelmed, and their behaviour
can become very distressed. This handbook shows how we can engage
with people who are non-verbal or semi-verbal and sometimes even
those who have speech but lose the power to process it when they
are in crisis. We can help them to make sense of the world.
Intensive Interaction uses a person's own body language to make
contact with them and Sensory Integration develops the capacity of
an individual to receive, process and apply meaning to information
provided by the senses through targeted physical activities. These
techniques can be used to develop an environment tailored to the
particular sensory needs of the person with severe autism, reducing
factors that cause distress. With illustrations, case examples and
a wide range of tried-and-tested techniques, this practical guide
provides indispensable tools for parents, carers and other
professionals supporting people with severe autism and other
learning disabilities.
All humans have an innate need and ability to communicate with
others, and this book presents successful approaches to nurturing
communicative abilities in people who have some type of
communication impairment. The contributors look at a wide range of
approaches, including intensive interaction, co-creative
communication, sensory integration and music therapy, for a variety
of impairments, including autism, profound learning disabilities,
deafblindness, severe early neglect and dementia. This wide
perspective provides insight into what it feels like to struggle
with a communicative impairment, and how those who work with and
care about such individuals can and should think more creatively
about how to make contact with them. Covering both the theory and
practical implementation of different interventions, this book will
be invaluable for health and social work professionals,
psychologists, psychotherapists, counsellors, speech and language
therapists, as well as researchers, teachers and students in these
fields.
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 straightforward and uncomplicated way, through
attending to body language and other non-verbal means of
communication, of establishing contact and building a relationship
with people who are non-verbal, even those in a state of
considerable distress. This simple method is accessible to anyone
who lives or works with such people, and is shown to transform
lives and to introduce a sense of fun, of participation and of
intimacy, as trust and familiarity are established.
Phoebe Caldwell's remarkable new book makes accessible for the
first time the complex, intricate inner and sensory worlds of
people whose learning disabilities are combined with autistic
spectrum disorder and, often, difficult-to-manage behaviour. Based
on many years of working with such people, many of whom have
withdrawn into a world of their own, she explores the different
sensory reality they experience, showing it to be infinitely more
complex and varied than is widely understood. She introduces a
practical approach known as Intensive Interaction, which uses the
body language of such people - who have hitherto largely been
regarded as unreachable - to get in touch with them, giving them a
way of expressing themselves which shifts their attention from
solitary self-stimulation to shared activity. The outcome is not
only a marked improvement in behaviour and ability to communicate
but, more important, many parents will say 'they are just much
happier'. Covering not only the practical aspects of introducing
this technique, but also the thinking behind it, this landmark book
has much to say on behalf of a group that has in the past largely
been denied a voice, and will open new avenues for both practice
and research. It is invaluable for parents, carers, and all who
work with this group.
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