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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.

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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.

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  • An Introduction to RDI® with Laura DeAngelo

    The Berlin Special Education Teacher Association (SEPTA) presents "An Introduction to RDI Relationship Development Intervention" with Laura DeAngelo A.B., MBA When: Tuesday, October 19 th at 7:00pm Where : Berlin High School Media Center, 139 Patterson Way, Berlin, Connecticut Laura will present how RDI is an approach to treating autism or similar disabilities by teaching the parent or caregiver specific techniques to help remediate the core deficits of autism,...

  • Congratulations Dr. Nicole Beurkens

    Huge congratulations go out to Dr. Nicole Beurkens who just earned her PhD in Clinical Psychology from Walden University in Minneapolis, MN. We asked Nicole about her dissertation. The title of my dissertation is: The Impact of Symptom Severity on Parent-Child Interaction and Relationships Among Children with Autism. My study looked at the relationship between autism symptom severity (as measured on the ADOS using the new calibrated severity metric), parent-child interaction...
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  • Episodic Memory, Experience-Sharing and Children with ASD

    Linda Murphy, M.S., CCC-SLP, Certified RDI Program Consultant has an article published in the Fall 2010 issue of Autism Spectrum Quarterly . In the article, titled "Episodic Memory, Experience-Sharing and Children with ASD," readers will not only understand the critical role that episodic memory plays in making sense of the world, but also how to develop and use it to help children with autism share experiences with others. Here's an excerpt: Memory is important...