[POSSIBLE SPAM] Re: Zoe...RDI with non verbal kids

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Hi Helen,

I can't resist answering this although I'm sure Zoe will be able to give

a fuller and more intelligent answer!

RDI works /better/ with non-verbal children. RDI is a way of helping our

children to develop /naturally/. Typical children develop many skills

(brain connections) before speech and in RDI children acquire these

first. What happens in autism is that even the most verbal children/

adults very often have huge gaps in their development such as an

inability to read faces (which comes before speech in typical

development) and an inability to use their parents as guides (also

starts before speech). The less speech your child has the better in many

ways, because the closer their development will be to that of a typical

child.

Having said that you can adjust the programme to work with highly verbal

children and adults (verbal and non-verbal)

Sara

helenco68 wrote:

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> Hi Zoe

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> So, so , so pleased for you, your family and Philip. A wee question to

> ask...in your experience can RDI help non verbal children?

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> Helen xx

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