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Through its innovative Relationship Development Intervention (RDI) Program, RDIconnect gained a worldwide reputation for designing family-based programs. Currently, RDIconnect provides programs for an entire range of developmental difficulties.
Gravity Pulls You In

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Dr. Rachelle SheelyHi, My name is Dr. Rachelle Sheely and I am the author of the RDI Community blog. We have quite a few features, programs and tools and all that info can be a little daunting. I'll try to help you feel more at ease while you're learning. Welcome, welcome.

Dr. Rachelle Sheely serves as the co-director of RDIconnect as well as the head of professional training and supervision. For the past fifteen years she has been a leader in the development and logistical implementation of programs for both families and professionals working with children, adolescents and adults with developmental disabilities. Along with her extensive clinical training, Dr. Sheely brings an accomplished background in education, art, music and poetry allowing her to inject creativity and originality into the teaching, training and management of the thousands of professionals and families she reaches on a daily basis. Profoundly effecting, Dr. Sheely has spent a lifetime working with children on a professional and personal level. With a gift for moving from observation to intuitive precision, her work extends far beyond treatment, and into the everyday moments that resonate in the lives of her clients.

Syndication

Christine Stephan, certified RDI Program Consultant, has contributed an essay to the book, Gravity Pulls You In. The anthology, with a foreward by John Elder Robison, author of the New York Times Best Seller, Look Me In The Eye, was recently named a finalist for the Non Fiction/ Anthology category from the International Book Awards

In 33 essays and poems, mothers and fathers raising children on the autism spectrum explore their lives in the context of autism's own special gravity, discovering what's important and what they find centering. Within these accounts of fierce love and keen regard for their unique children, lie moments of exceptional clarity and transformation. Christine's essay, Navigating Autism, depicts the journey that led her family to embrace RDI and reclaim her hold on motherhood. An excerpt of her essay can be found here

Christine Stephan, certified RDI® Program Consultant, lives in Virginia with her husband and three sons. She and her family can often be found navigating the streets of her hometown by bicycle. You can find out about her professional services by visiting her website or follow her as she blogs on Day Sixty-Seven


Posted 28 Jul 2010 10:27 AM by Carlotta Baird
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