Case study: Sam

Nursery World
12 December 2002

Sense intervenor Marion Morgan has been working with three-year-old Sam for around a year now. When she started, he had no language or communication, was drawn into himself, and refused to be touched. Sign communication has enabled him to start engaging with the world. Marion recalls, 'For the first two weeks I thought "I can't do this". He used to scream, curl up, and bang his head. I decided the only way to get through to him was to approach him gently and slowly. I'd sing to him, kneeling behind him; he started leaning on me, so he could feel...

 

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