Playfulness is important; it creates an alternative space where emotional, cognitive and social dimensions can be explored and tested. This highly practical book explores the endless possibilities of using playful, creative and interactive activities to meaningfully engage with children with multiple learning difficulties or autistic spectrum disorders.
The author presents playfulness as an experimental frame of mind, and encourages practitioners to play with roles, ideas, words, concepts and objects in order to enhance relationships and interventions. By providing...
Playfulness is important; it creates an alternative space where emotional, cognitive and social dimensions can be explored and tested. This highly ...
One of the ways forward when working with those who have little or no speech, or limited comprehension of language, is to use music. In this book tried and tested approaches and activities devised to promote the development of communication and social interaction at a fundamental level are clearly set out. The ethos behind this manual is a person-centered approach, within a structured framework and allowing for differentiation and improvisation according to the learner's individual needs and developmental levels. This is a practical guide that contains lots of ideas and original...
One of the ways forward when working with those who have little or no speech, or limited comprehension of language, is to use music. In this book trie...
One of the ways forward when working with those who have little or no speech, or limited comprehension of language, is to use music. In this book tried and tested approaches and activities devised to promote the development of communication and social interaction at a fundamental level are clearly set out. The ethos behind this manual is a person-centered approach, within a structured framework and allowing for differentiation and improvisation according to the learner's individual needs and developmental levels.
This is a practical guide that contains lots of ideas and original...
One of the ways forward when working with those who have little or no speech, or limited comprehension of language, is to use music. In this book trie...