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Relationship Development Intervention® (RDI) |
Introduction to RDI Webinars
RDI Consultant Laura Hynes, LMSW of ExtraoRDInary Minds in Staten Island, NY will be leading complimentary webinars on February 13 and February 20. Click here to sign up. |
What is RDI?
RDI, or Relationship Development Intervention®, is a family-centered approach that increases a child’s flexibility, resilience, sharing of memories, curiosity about another person's thoughts and feelings, engagement in reciprocal conversations and interactions, proficiency with nonverbal communication, and development of relationships. This treatment approach addresses the core problems at the heart of autism and most social communication disorders.
How Does RDI Work?
Parents work closely with Linda Murphy to carefully introduce challenges, add variations, give their child greater social responsibility, and give their child opportunities to make adjustments within an interaction moment to moment. As children become more competent at adjusting to change, their resilience increases, as does their desire for continued challenges and dynamic interactions. This treatment approach, developed by Dr. Steve Gutstein and Dr. Rachelle Sheely, is based on research in social cognitive development.
Starting out, families typically meet with Linda twice a month either in person or remotely, for example over the phone or on Skype. Between consultation sessions, families work through homework assignments that are developed with their family and child in mind. RDI uses video clips of parent/child interactions to monitor progress, to demonstrate how a child can reach a particular social milestone, and to teach through parent reflection and discussion.
Because RDI is future-focused, it offers families hope. We work toward improved quality of life for your child (friendships, employability, independence, marriage) in the long term. With RDI, parents find they become increasingly thoughtful in their day-to-day interactions with their child, become empowered, and begin to realize the important role they can play in their child’s social development
Learn More About RDI
Linda Murphy offers informational presentations on RDI to help parents and medical professionals understand how this therapy effectively addresses and strengthens social competence and relationships. She also meets with families individually. Contact Linda by phone or email to set up an in person appointment, or schedule a presentation. Linda is also happy to talk by phone to answer any preliminary questions.
Other sources of information for RDI
We encourage you to visit www.rdiconnect.com for more detailed information on the RDI program.
To learn more about RDI as an Evidence Based Practice, please read this document:
Relationship Development Intervention® (RDI®) as Evidence Based Practice for Autism Spectrum Disorders: Authors: Amy Leventhal, Ph.D. and Deborah Berrang, M.Ed. January 25, 2010
RDI on Facebook
Autism Guide has been created as a place for all members to discuss RDI (Relationship Development Intervention). It provides a place for members to share how gradual small changes that ‘you’ as a ‘guide’ to your child make can have such a long-term life-changing affect, not just for the individual with ASD but your family as a whole. Anyone with a positive interest in RDI is welcome to join i.e: parents wishing to find out more about what RDI is and how it can help their ASD child, parents who are willing to share their experience of using RDI with their child, RDI Consultants wishing to share their knowledge.
RDIConnect Parent and Professional Training is dedicated to developing tools and training programs that empower parents and helping professionals in the following ways: empowering family relationships, so parents can act as the primary guides of their children's mental, social and emotional development , creating powerful learning relationships, that seamlessly integrate home and school, teachers, parents and students in a productive learning environment , building effective minds, through carefully understanding each learner's unique bio-psycho-social needs , designing a dynamic curriculum that engages learners in productive cognitive challenges that stimulate neural integration, fostering worldwide, online community relationships of parents and professionals, dedicated to furthering a common mission.
Blogs*
Food for Thought - Adventures in the not Nigella and not Jamie Kitchen is a blog written by Zoe Thompson, a mother who writes about her experiences with Relationship Development Intervention with her son who has autism. This blog shows excellent video footage of RDI in action and explains some of the RDI principles Zoe is working on in great detail.
Jacob's Journey Jacob was diagnosed with Autism at 3 years of age, although clearly he was affected since birth. This blog documents our family's journey through Autism Remediation. The story has a happy ending -- Jacob's Autism Diagnosis was officially dropped on September 17, 2009, a month shy of Jacob's 9th birthday.
Parenting the RDI Way This blog will present perspectives on parenting and guiding persons with autism to achieve remediation and realize a more satisfying, productive quality of life. The author is the parent of a child on the autism spectrum and an RDI Program Certified Consultant actively working with families of children on the autism spectrum.
RDI Magic Kyra Anderson is a homeschooling mother and writer living in western Massachusetts who shares about her experience with "Fluffy", her son who is diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome and is undergoing RDI autism remediation.
Henry's RDI journals shares information about two parents’ experiences and interactions working with guided participation.
*Thank you to Melissa Ratkovich, an RDI Consultant in Malaysia, for compiling this list of RDI blogs.
RDI, or Relationship Development Intervention®, is a family-centered approach that increases a child’s flexibility, resilience, sharing of memories, curiosity about another person's thoughts and feelings, engagement in reciprocal conversations and interactions, proficiency with nonverbal communication, and development of relationships. This treatment approach addresses the core problems at the heart of autism and most social communication disorders.
How Does RDI Work?
Parents work closely with Linda Murphy to carefully introduce challenges, add variations, give their child greater social responsibility, and give their child opportunities to make adjustments within an interaction moment to moment. As children become more competent at adjusting to change, their resilience increases, as does their desire for continued challenges and dynamic interactions. This treatment approach, developed by Dr. Steve Gutstein and Dr. Rachelle Sheely, is based on research in social cognitive development.
Starting out, families typically meet with Linda twice a month either in person or remotely, for example over the phone or on Skype. Between consultation sessions, families work through homework assignments that are developed with their family and child in mind. RDI uses video clips of parent/child interactions to monitor progress, to demonstrate how a child can reach a particular social milestone, and to teach through parent reflection and discussion.
Because RDI is future-focused, it offers families hope. We work toward improved quality of life for your child (friendships, employability, independence, marriage) in the long term. With RDI, parents find they become increasingly thoughtful in their day-to-day interactions with their child, become empowered, and begin to realize the important role they can play in their child’s social development
Learn More About RDI
Linda Murphy offers informational presentations on RDI to help parents and medical professionals understand how this therapy effectively addresses and strengthens social competence and relationships. She also meets with families individually. Contact Linda by phone or email to set up an in person appointment, or schedule a presentation. Linda is also happy to talk by phone to answer any preliminary questions.
Other sources of information for RDI
We encourage you to visit www.rdiconnect.com for more detailed information on the RDI program.
To learn more about RDI as an Evidence Based Practice, please read this document:
Relationship Development Intervention® (RDI®) as Evidence Based Practice for Autism Spectrum Disorders: Authors: Amy Leventhal, Ph.D. and Deborah Berrang, M.Ed. January 25, 2010
RDI on Facebook
Autism Guide has been created as a place for all members to discuss RDI (Relationship Development Intervention). It provides a place for members to share how gradual small changes that ‘you’ as a ‘guide’ to your child make can have such a long-term life-changing affect, not just for the individual with ASD but your family as a whole. Anyone with a positive interest in RDI is welcome to join i.e: parents wishing to find out more about what RDI is and how it can help their ASD child, parents who are willing to share their experience of using RDI with their child, RDI Consultants wishing to share their knowledge.
RDIConnect Parent and Professional Training is dedicated to developing tools and training programs that empower parents and helping professionals in the following ways: empowering family relationships, so parents can act as the primary guides of their children's mental, social and emotional development , creating powerful learning relationships, that seamlessly integrate home and school, teachers, parents and students in a productive learning environment , building effective minds, through carefully understanding each learner's unique bio-psycho-social needs , designing a dynamic curriculum that engages learners in productive cognitive challenges that stimulate neural integration, fostering worldwide, online community relationships of parents and professionals, dedicated to furthering a common mission.
Blogs*
Food for Thought - Adventures in the not Nigella and not Jamie Kitchen is a blog written by Zoe Thompson, a mother who writes about her experiences with Relationship Development Intervention with her son who has autism. This blog shows excellent video footage of RDI in action and explains some of the RDI principles Zoe is working on in great detail.
Jacob's Journey Jacob was diagnosed with Autism at 3 years of age, although clearly he was affected since birth. This blog documents our family's journey through Autism Remediation. The story has a happy ending -- Jacob's Autism Diagnosis was officially dropped on September 17, 2009, a month shy of Jacob's 9th birthday.
Parenting the RDI Way This blog will present perspectives on parenting and guiding persons with autism to achieve remediation and realize a more satisfying, productive quality of life. The author is the parent of a child on the autism spectrum and an RDI Program Certified Consultant actively working with families of children on the autism spectrum.
RDI Magic Kyra Anderson is a homeschooling mother and writer living in western Massachusetts who shares about her experience with "Fluffy", her son who is diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome and is undergoing RDI autism remediation.
Henry's RDI journals shares information about two parents’ experiences and interactions working with guided participation.
*Thank you to Melissa Ratkovich, an RDI Consultant in Malaysia, for compiling this list of RDI blogs.