(off topic) anacat_11 / Re: RDI- Question

February 9, 2008

You are right, the jargon is intimidating.

And RDI is a " do over " of the parent/child relationship, something

that is pretty much instinctive in most parents, but simple to " re-do "

in autism? Not always. The piece we were missing, is where RDI has

been extremely helpful, and that is identifying *where* exactly, our

daughter *is*, and building foundations, moving forward from that

point. We'd been stretching her too far, expecting too much, and she

had few memories of competence. Watching ourselves with her on

videotape, critiquing ourselves, and getting feedback from a

consultant along the way has boosted our daughter's competence because

we're giving her opportunities to experience " how people are " at the

place she is ready for.

Floortime was horrible for us. I hated every minute of it. Our

daughter just closed circles.

ABA and discreet trial--she learned everything we taught her, but the

professionals guiding us didn't understand the foundations of

communication development, and we skipped all the foundations and went

straight to " talk " and got " talk " without reciprocity and meaning.

Bizarre, what we did, actually.

Anyway, thanks for listening. I'll stop now. There are

for RDI all over the place--including homeschoolers.

Penny

>

> I do like the reform approach to children's therapy-- that the

> parents need it first. That's always encouraging and I'm glad you

> found it useful. Since you're positive, you probably draw the best

> from anything you encounter.

>

> I am turned off by the jargon, though. Not saying that you're using

> jargon but the descriptions of RDI that I've seen, the way the

> leading experts in it discuss it. I'm just not dazzled and I don't

> see the need for all the verbiage when what they're conveying is

> simple and self-apparent. But if they described it simply, then

> everyone would go home and do it instead of paying $200 bucks to be

> coached. That may be one reason some people are skeptical about it

> and may view it as a business venture.

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