FRONT COVER -- Promoting Social Interaction for Individuals with Communicative Impairments: Making Contact -- Contents -- Chapter 1 Introduction: Bridging a Spectrum of Communicative Impairments -- Part 1: Origins of Communication -- Chapter 2 Intuition for Human Communication -- Chapter 3 The Universality of Musical Communication -- Part 2: Communicative Impairments -- Chapter 4 The Use of Imitation with Children with Autistic Spectrum Disorder: Foundations for Shared Communication -- Chapter 5 Sharing Communicative Landscapes with Congenitally Deafblind People: It's aWalk in the Park! -- Chapter 6 Using Imitation to Establish Channels of Communication with Institutionalised Children in Romania: Bridging the Gap -- Chapter 7 Developing Relationships with People with Profound Learning Disabilities through Intensive Interactions -- Chapter 8 A New Approach to Communicating with People with Advanced Dementia: A Case Study of Adaptive Interaction -- Part 3: A Closer Look at Interventions -- Chapter 9 Video Interaction Guidance: A Bridge to Better Interactions for Individuals with Communication Impairments -- Chapter 10 Sensory Integration: From Spinning to Sitting, from Sitting to Smiling -- Chapter 11 Intensive Interaction: Getting in Touch with a Child with Severe Autism -- THE CONTRIBUTORS -- SUBJECT INDEX -- AUTHOR INDEX.