Anyone attending the Emotional Develpoment Workshop in Plainview from BUCKS CTY PA. OR MERCER CTY NJ ?

[Guest guest]

If anyone is attending the Solving the Realtionship Puzzle Conference on

May 21, 2002 in Plainview NY

AND you are from BUCKS CTY PA. OR MERCER CTY NJ or surrounding area

PLEASE email

Rita Chiacchio <gizmo1006@...>

She is trying to network with someone going . Perhaps carpool?

Please contact her:

About the workshop:

Solving the Relationship Puzzle

A ONE-DAY WORKSHOP WITH:

DR. STEVEN GUTSTEIN

TUESDAY MAY 21, 2002

PLAINVIEW, NEW YORK,

SEATING IS LIMITED

The Workshop

Heroic parents, desperately search for a peer who will accept and play with

their son or daughter with Autism, Aspergers, PDD and NVLD. They dream that an

understanding friend will serve as the crucial relationship bridge, opening the

social world for their child. Inevitably, they come face-to-face with a sad

truth. You cannot acquire friends as if they were objects or possessions. And

you cannot place a child with severe social deficits in a normal setting and

expect he will understand the subtle signals of friendship through osmosis.

Until recently, there were few alternatives to the prayers and dreams of parents

and family that somehow, someway, they would find an alternative to the general

medical expectations; that their child's condition would most likely result in a

life apart from others.

After years of clinical practice, teaching and research, Dr. Gutstein and

Dr. le Sheely were unwilling to accept these bleak predictions. They

believed that people in the Autism spectrum could become true partners in

authentic relationships. But, only through an intervention program designed to

fit their unique style of learning. Relationship Development Intervention, RDI,

is the result of their persistent efforts to open the world of joy, excitement

and unity found in authentic relationships, to persons in the Autism spectrum.*

Through RDI, there is a path to emotionally fulfilling lives for thousands of

children, adolescents and adults facing lonely, isolated futures.

Dr. Gutstein has described the theory and methods of RDI in his top selling

book, Autism/Aspergers: Solving the Relationship Puzzle. In the spring of 2002,

Kingsley will publish Dr. Gutstein and Sheely's two-volume collection of

over 300 activities and objectives for relationship development. Parents,

educators and professionals throughout the world will finally have the tools to

design comprehensive relationship programs.

Now, Dr. Steve Gutstein, in cooperation with

The Elija Foundation

will present

an intensive one day workshop to introduce you to

the Relationship Intervention Program.

Morning: starts at 9:00 a.m.

Defining the Relationship Puzzle: Understanding the Unique Social and Emotional

Deficits of Autism Typical Relationship Development: The RDI 6 level Model

Relationship Development in Autism Basic Principles of Relationship Development

Intervention

Afternoon: starts at 1:00 p.m.

Relationship Development Assessment: Doing the RDA to Determine Where to Start

Developing Relationship Intervention: Plans Developing a Social and Emotional

IEP that is Meaningful:

Using RDI with Different Age Groups, Populations and in Different Settings

Audience Questions

For Directions go to:

www.residenceinn.com

Residence Inn Plainview

9 Gerhard Road

Plainview, NY 11803

USA

Phone: 1-516-433-6200

Fax: 1-516-433-2569

Parking will be limited so please try and carpool if possible. Please Use the

parking facilities across from the gated entrance.

Please refrain from the use of audio or video recording

PLEASE VISIT OUR WESITE FOR MORE INFORMATION

HTTP://ELIJAFOUNDATION.FREESERVERS.COM

*This method also works for others who have neurological

disorders that lead to similar social and emotional deficits.

For more information on Dr. Steve Gutstein, contact his website at:

http://www.connectionscenter.com