(off topic) anacat_11 / Re: RDI- Question

[Guest guest]

According to Dr Gutstein, the parents of the world raise their

children within each cultural context using what psychology

calls " guided participation " . Our children learn to apprentice US

(parents) and we parents are the guides. To borrow from the title of

Barbara Rogoff's book, our children are in an " apprenticeship in

thinking " with us. Whatever we value, we, as guides, pass that along

to our children. RDI is " guided participation " applied to autism.

RDI is the first intervention (and we have a long list) that we have

done that is NOT about changing our child. RDI began by working on

US, the PARENTS, in how we use ourselves to give our child

opportunities to experience, for lack of a better term, " how people

are " . People shift their own attention, gather their own information

(and 70% of information shared between people is non-verbal), respond

in dynamic ways. In discreet trial, the experience we gave our child

was one where she was a passive responder, not an active participant.

It's quite different to have the focus be on US, and how we are using

ourselves to give our daughter opportunities to experience " how people

are " and to make her own discoveries about what happens when she

shifts her own attention (or does not and meaning breaks down).

We've had a good experience with RDI.

Penny

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> I'm also leery about the possibility of others attempting to instill

> their values, even in a subtle way, in our children and wish we

could

> find therapy that fit OUR values.