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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.

February 2012 - Forging New Pathways

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Forging New Pathways

Learning from Each Other

This blog focuses on parents, professionals, families and relationships. Humorous and informative it provides an additional outlook on the day-to-day lessons and wisdom we learn from each other as well as reflective insight into the RDIconnect Programs. Forging New Pathways publishes content submitted by RDI Consultants and the families who work with them. Moderated by RDI Consultant, Lisa Palasti.

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  • Finding Normalcy by Jo Fokkes

    RDI Consultant, Jo Fokkes The following is the story of a family who has found some normalcy through our work with RDI. I initially heard from them in late 2009 and today, they are feeling like a normal family...for the first time in their history. The family is Mum, Dad and three boys, two of them on the spectrum. When we first met, only the first child, Johnny, had been diagnosed. He had been traumatized by his attendance at preschool with unsympathetic teachers and was...
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  • Dranxiety...by RDI Consultant, Melissa Reiner

    RDI Consultant, Melissa Reiner Dranxiety /draeng ‘zaieti/ n. 1 a mixture of dread and anxiety. 2 great fear and apprehension combined with concern and excessive unease. A friend of mine who has five children (the eldest of which is diagnosed with Autism), just invented this fabulous new word to aptly describe the feeling that she and her husband wake up with each morning. Dranxiety . Always, of course, immediately lessened by anyone’s advice to, “...just...
  • Letting Go: Taking a Step Back

    Letting Go: Taking a Step Back My RDI Experience RDI Consultant, Carol Subramani The following journal entry was used by permission from a dad who is a client of RDI Consultant, Carol Subramani. I grew up in a family that has excelled in sport at all levels, from the Olympics right down to school sports. Sport is life and is discussed at family gatherings and, if given a slight window of opportunity, at any time of day. It is not a new phenomenon that parents nowadays try...
  • RDI Rocks! A Story from a Proud RDI Dad

    RDI Constultant, Prue Watson, shares the following true story submitted from a family she works with using RDI. It was used with permission and with names changed. Prue Watson lives in Australia and has been an RDI Certified Consultant since 2007. "Just so you can understand just how WOW this is....our little 6 yr old boy has had extreme social anxiety (he has slept with us every night of his life because of his fear) and could be quite controlling of those around him...
    Published 1 Feb 2012 8:15 AM