Adult Interactive Style Intervention and Participatory Research Designs in Autism: Bridging the Gap Between Academic Research and Practice

ISBN-13: 9781138856691 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 218 str.

Lila Kossyvaki

Opis

Spontaneity is a core difficulty for the majority of autistic people, regardless of their cognitive or linguistic abilities, and developing communicative skills is crucial if they want to gain greater control over their environment, increased independence, and access to a higher quality of life. This book examines the impact the interactive style of neurotypical individuals may have on the spontaneous communication of children with autism. Organised into three distinctive parts, chapters present the importance of AISI (Adult Interactive Style Interventions), exploring richly detailed case studies set in a school environment, before focussing on a number of methodological issues and offering a framework of advice to enhance communicative practice.

Spis treści

Foreword  1. Introduction  2. Autism and Spontaneous Communication  3. Reviewing the Literature on Adult Interactive Style to Inform Practice  4. Adult Interactive Style at School and at Home  5. The Research Project  6. Analysing and Discussing the Findings  7. Participatory Research Designs: Implications for Practitioners and Parents  8. Participatory Research Designs: Implications for Research  9. Conclusions  Appendix One  Appendix Two

O autorze

Lila Kossyvaki is Lecturer in Severe Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulties at the University of Birmingham. She has conducted extensive research on how home- and school-based intervention can be used to promote social communication and play skills in children with autism and learning difficulties.