Fostering social engagement in Romanian children with communicative impairments: the experiences of newly trained practitioners of Intensive Interaction.
Within the special needs field, interactive interventions are gaining attention as a means of promoting social engagement for individuals with communicative impairments. The present paper examined the experiences of practitioners of one such approach, Intensive Interaction (II), by analysing written...
| Publicado en: | British Journal of Learning Disabilities Vol. 37; no. 3; pp. 186 - 197 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Sep2009
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