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Course Overview This course is designed for all Intensive Interaction practitioners who work in the field and wish to take a more central role in developing and supporting Intensive Interaction practice across a service. This course is suitable for the following groups: teachers and teaching assistants, speech and language therapists and assistants, psychologists, social workers, residential managers and staff, qualified and non-qualified etc.
Course Aims:
All of the course processes and materials are designed to fulfil the following simple aims, that, by the end of the course, it is expected that an Intensive Interaction Coordinator:
will be a good practitioner in the techniques of doing Intensive Interaction
will be familiar with all the significant publications on Intensive Interaction
be knowledgeable about all the significant theories and many of the issues associated with Intensive Interaction, e.g. touch, age-appropriateness, developmental theories, Intensive Interaction’s position with regard to various psychological theories, parent-infant interaction theories, autism theories and history, communication work in the field of SLD, etc.
can provide advice on Intensive Interaction policy development
be a resource to their employing organisation - have knowledge about approaches to supporting the implementation of Intensive Interaction within an organisation and the organisational issues that are likely to be significant
will be able to train and mentor individuals and small staff teams in the practice of Intensive Interaction, and will be able to give workshops on Intensive Interaction to larger groups within or across their organisation