Sam's story: evaluating Intensive Interaction in terms of its effect on the social and communicative ability of a young child with severe learning difficulties

Sam’s story began a little over a year ago, when he participated in a longitudinal research project to evaluate the efficacy of Intensive Interaction on the sociability and communication abilities of young children with severe and complex learning difficulties (SLD). The project spanned an academic year and involved six SLD children in two community special schools and one nursery. Significant levels of social and communicative progress were made.