How RDI Works
I will ask you to video some of your interactions with your child, and we will review these video clips together in a video conference call each week. I will help you address obstacles in the engagement and suggest possible activity engagements for you to try out. I will also come and observe some of the activities you are doing with your child in your home when possible and also visit and try to engage with your child myself.
Your individualized program will change as your child’s competency grows. Your goals will change. You will learn how to effectively add increased level of challenge to the joint learning engagements you are creating for your child.
The joint activities that you and your child participate in together will need to evolve and change. This will be very important. The brain changes when it encounters challenge. Research has shown that the brain continues to create new neural pathways and alter existing ones in order to adapt to new experiences, learn new information and create new memories.
To grow and develop more sophisticated mental processes, a child must encounter mental challenges that they cannot immediately solve. These challenges must be ‘just right’ challenges however. Just right challenges will be challenges that fall within your child’s zone of proximal development. Just right challenges will be challenges you’re your child can ultimately learn to resolve. These challenges will lie at the edge of will be just a little beyond their current state of competency.
To learn more about how the RDI Model can work for your family, contact me here.
How RDI Works
I will ask you to video some of your interactions with your child, and we will review these video clips together in a video conference call each week. I will help you address obstacles in the engagement and suggest possible activity engagements for you to try out. I will also come and observe some of the activities you are doing with your child in your home when possible and also visit and try to engage with your child myself.
Your individualized program will change as your child’s competency grows. Your goals will change. You will learn how to effectively add increased level of challenge to the joint learning engagements you are creating for your child.
The joint activities that you and your child participate in together will need to evolve and change. This will be very important. The brain changes when it encounters challenge. Research has shown that the brain continues to create new neural pathways and alter existing ones in order to adapt to new experiences, learn new information and create new memories.
To grow and develop more sophisticated mental processes, a child must encounter mental challenges that they cannot immediately solve. These challenges must be ‘just right’ challenges however. Just right challenges will be challenges that fall within your child’s zone of proximal development. Just right challenges will be challenges you’re your child can ultimately learn to resolve. These challenges will lie at the edge of will be just a little beyond their current state of competency.
To learn more about how the RDI Model can work for your family, contact me here.