{"id":3195,"date":"2019-05-25T09:00:48","date_gmt":"2019-05-25T09:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/?p=3195"},"modified":"2019-07-01T20:29:50","modified_gmt":"2019-07-01T20:29:50","slug":"story-without-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/25\/3195\/","title":{"rendered":"Without Words"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Promoting understanding – Understanding and misunderstanding<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The story \u201cWithout Words\u201d offers examples of how body language can be interpreted. It can be used as therapeutic homework to provide young people with autism with a new way of interpreting other people\u2019s behaviour, and to occupy highly gifted young people with observation tasks as a distraction from provocative or depressive behaviour.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

While I was driving home I approached a zebra\ncrossing. A pedestrian was walking along the pavement, still a little way\nbefore the crossing. I stopped. It is possible to tell whether someone is going\nto cross the road several metres before they stop or look around, because they\nmake a small turning motion with their body or head which foreshadows the\nplanned movement.\n\nThere are situations\nin which it can be useful to observe these minimal movements which anticipate actual\nmovements. When the person leading a committee meeting or seminar asks for a\nvolunteer, for example, a long pause often sets in while everyone waits to see\nif someone else is enthusiastic enough to volunteer first. And yet the\nindividual who finally volunteers after lots of encouragement is always the one\nwho moved immediately after the request was made \u2013 by leaning forwards slightly,\nby opening his or her mouth briefly, by uncrossing his or her legs, by sighing\nor by any other movement which might serve as a non-verbal introduction to a\nspoken contribution. If I want to circumvent this tedious process, I address a\ndirect question to the person who moved first after I asked for a volunteer,\nenquiring whether he or she would like to take on the task. Experience shows\nthat the answer is always yes.\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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