Cover -- Copyright -- Quote -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- About the authors -- Foreword -- Person to Person -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 First steps to learning -- Chapter 2 Finding the way in -- Chapter 3 Using the person's language -- Chapter 4 Getting the balance right -- Chapter 5 Finding the right approach -- Chapter 6 Equipment and interactive activities -- Chapter 7 Empowerment and respect -- Appendix -- References -- You Don't Know What It's Like -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 'Is he one of us?' The consensus of acceptable response -- Chapter 2 'I know what I'm doing' Repetitive behaviours -- Chapter 3 'A whole lot of confused jumbles' What ASD 'feels' like -- Chapter 4 'When's the bus coming?' The uncertainty of time -- Chapter 5 'The man who walked backwards' The validity of individual logic -- Chapter 6 'A safe place inside myself'Two worlds -- Chapter 7 'The lady with the knife'Resonant imaging -- Chapter 8 'May I come in?'The idea of control -- Chapter 9 'Intimate attention'The empowering force of Intensive Interaction -- Chapter 10 'Speech may be sound without meaning'Communication and comprehension -- Chapter 11 'Yes or no?' Making choices -- Chapter 12 'Copy and paste' Transferring a positive emotional load -- Chapter 13 'A safe box and a scary box'Containment and holding -- Chapter 14 'Difficult' behaviour Rewiring the brain -- Chapter 15 'Bit' Transitional phenomena and reducing stress -- Chapter 16 How can we help? -- Chapter 17 What do we mean by success? -- Chapter 18 'Back where we started' Reciprocal attempts to communicate -- Chapter 19 A GP's viewpoint -- References -- Resources -- Crossing the Minefield -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 The uses of surprise -- Chapter 2 Drawing back the curtains -- Chapter 3 Crossing the minefield -- Chapter 4 We didn't believe you -- Chapter 5 Over and over again.

Chapter 6 Finding each other -- Chapter 7 More to seeing than meets the eye -- Chapter 8 Who's afraid of whom? -- Conclusion -- References -- Pavilion Publishing.