RDI therapy
Hi Erik,
I've been exposed to almost every autism program available over the last 13 years and chose to pursue RDI because of the quality of changes I saw in the kids I worked with. The improvements were vastly different and not prompt-dependent at all.
RDI is the only autism program so far to show changes in diagnosis using the ADOS (the 'gold standard' in autism diagnosis). It is not about teaching behavioral skills, but about coaching parents to recognize opportunities for allowing the child to think. Most children learn through the parent-child relationship and children on the spectrum often are not able to naturally do this. Compared to how a 'typical' 3 year old child thinks, an adult with high-functioning autism may still not be thinking at this level in terms of creative problem-solving and social interaction. This is what RDI works on, and is VERY different from other approaches which try to teach distinct skills.
Hope this helps. There are lots of RDI specific yahoo! groups where you can talk to other parents. RDI-NC is one that is fairly active.
April
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