What Is RDI?
RDI is an innovative, research based therapeutic intervention that was created, and continues to be influenced, by the research of Dr. Steven Gutstein, an internationally renowned researcher and clinical pioneer in the field of autism and developmental disabilities.
How Will RDI Help You Support Your Child’s Development?
RDI empowers parents. RDI will empower you. RDI will provide you with the knowledge and skills you need to become a powerful change agent in your child’s life. RDI will teach you how to structure developmentally appropriate ‘just right ‘social and cognitive learning experiences for your child and will teach you how to guide your child’s growth and mental development in these experiences.
How Will RDI Benefit My Child?
RDI will help your child develop important mental processes. The guided, ‘just right’ learning engagements that I will help you structure for your child will help them develop the mental processes that support social, emotional and cognitive growth. These learning engagements will help you create opportunities that can help your child develop he mental processes that support these important abilities.
RDI Supports the Following Abilities
- The ability to shift attention
- The ability to contribute to play and to respond more spontaneously and more successfully in an improvised, flexible manner to nonverbal and verbal communication
- The ability to coordinate their thoughts, actions and words with a partner‘s thoughts, actions and words
- The ability to notice and repair communication breakdowns
- The desire and motivation to be curious, to try something new and different
- The desire and resiliency to engage with challenge
- The ability to stop and think
- The ability to reflect on past experience
- The ability to notice and understand experiences that cause them to experience feeling shifts
- The ability to engage in simple and later more complex planning and preparation
- The desire and motivation to be curious, to try something new and different
The development of these mental processes will not only support your child’s academic and intellectual growth, they will also support the development your child’s social communication skills. These mental processes support a child’s motivation and ability to engage in and respond to natural and meaningful communication more competently!
The development of these mental processes will not only support your child’s academic and intellectual growth, they will also support the development your child’s social communication skills. These mental processes support a child’s motivation and ability to engage in and respond to natural and meaningful communication more competently!
What Is RDI?
RDI is an innovative, research based therapeutic intervention that was created, and continues to be influenced, by the research of Dr. Steven Gutstein, an internationally renowned researcher and clinical pioneer in the field of autism and developmental disabilities.
How Will RDI Help You Support Your Child’s Development?
RDI empowers parents. RDI will empower you. RDI will provide you with the knowledge and skills you need to become a powerful change agent in your child’s life. RDI will teach you how to structure developmentally appropriate ‘just right ‘social and cognitive learning experiences for your child and will teach you how to guide your child’s growth and mental development in these experiences.
How Will RDI Benefit My Child?
RDI will help your child develop important mental processes. The guided, ‘just right’ learning engagements that I will help you structure for your child will help them develop the mental processes that support social, emotional and cognitive growth. These learning engagements will help you create opportunities that can help your child develop he mental processes that support these important abilities.
RDI Supports the Following Abilities
- The ability to shift attention
- The ability to contribute to play and to respond more spontaneously and more successfully in an improvised, flexible manner to nonverbal and verbal communication
- The ability to coordinate their thoughts, actions and words with a partner‘s thoughts, actions and words
- The ability to notice and repair communication breakdowns
- The desire and motivation to be curious, to try something new and different
- The desire and resiliency to engage with challenge
- The ability to stop and think
- The ability to reflect on past experience
- The ability to notice and understand experiences that cause them to experience feeling shifts
- The ability to engage in simple and later more complex planning and preparation
- The desire and motivation to be curious, to try something new and different