Observing through an unhurried lens -- Intensive Interaction - your objective is to drop your own agenda/objective. -- Why is it so essential that we drop our own objective? -- Slow the pace and connect -- Intensive Interaction and fostering relationships -- Learning together -- What we learned from John -- What John learned from us -- References -- Chapter 5: Less is more: Working with a person with PMLD -- Background story: my experience of Intensive Interaction -- Studying for a master's degree -- Sarah: profile and description -- Initial observation, prior to starting Intensive Interaction -- Starting up -- Minimalism -- Recording -- Spill over and Sarah's progress -- My initial observations of Sarah were: -- After 6 weeks: -- After 12 weeks: -- After 18 weeks: -- Summary of Sarah's progress -- Mentoring -- Manpreet's profile -- Starting Intensive Interaction with Manpreet -- A session with Manpreet -- Mentoring Julie with Manpreet -- Mentoring Hanan: my biggest learning curve -- References -- Chapter 6: Building an emotional connection through Intensive Interaction -- Developing an emotional connection with Vincent -- Time for a different 'intervention' -- Developing my practice -- Getting to know Vincent: tuning-in takes time -- Learning to pause -- When copying became responding -- Vincent: important breakthroughs -- Vincent begins to use touch to create a connection -- Expanding and showing understanding of facial expressions -- Vocalisations: learning to take turns -- Initiating Intensive Interaction -- Regulation of arousal levels -- Emotional learning (Hewett, 2013) -- What did this mean for Vincent? -- Mentoring -- Observing and recording the progress of the young person -- Opportunities for interaction -- Access to recording -- The development of their own technique as practitioners -- Reflecting on mentoring -- Organisational change