Learning to Listen: Positive Approaches and People with Difficult Behavior

Learning to Listen: Positive Approaches and People with Difficult Behavior

Herbert Lovett, Nancy Thaler (Foreword by)
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Publication Date: January 31st, 1996
Publisher:
Brookes Publishing Company
ISBN:
9781557661647
Pages:
288
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Description

This nontechnical and absorbing text describes how the interactive process of "learning to listen" provides practical alternatives to overly controlling behavior modification techniques. Written for support and other service providers working with people with intellectual disabilities, this book includes compelling and detailed case studies that illustrate possible positive approaches and reveal how people with disabilities can take control of their lives.

About the Author

Herbert Lovett, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist in private practice in Boston, Massachusetts, and a program coordinator with the Institute on Disability, University of New Hampshire. He has worked throughout the Northern Hemisphere to promote inclusive supports in and equal access to education, work, housing, and human rights. He is the author of Cognitive Counseling and Persons with Special Needs (1985) and a past president of the Autism National Committee.