The single most important tool for a family is the RDI Consultant. Consultants are professionals with varied backgrounds, such as Speech Pathologists, Psychologists, teachers, Social Workers, Autism Specialists, Occupational Therapists, Physicians and veteran parents. The concept of guided participation applies equally to the work consultants are doing with the parents they guide. It is a parallel process where parents are taught to introduce manageable challenges to their children; consultants must do the same when guiding parents. 

Consultants help parents modify their communication, slow their pace and focus on the underlying opportunities available in their daily routines. They teach parents to conduct observation and analysis of critical processes and break down large, complex abilities into manageable pieces. While constructing clear, systematic assignments, tailored to the daily realities of the family, they make sure that parents have appropriate understanding of how they are expected to work with their child between consultant visits. 

Consultant Training includes understanding the theoretical foundations behind the core principles and goals of our programs as they apply to neural development, Dynamic Intelligence, communication, early childhood development, etiology and pathogenesis and myths vs. science. Heavy emphasis on general consulting principles includes: ethics and managing the Certification Process, productive client communication, joining with the family while maintaining boundaries, developing responsibility contracts, sensitive clinical interviewing, avoiding the 'instant expert' trap, and maintaining a 'win-win' position where both consultant and the family are cared for. 

Consultants receive extensive training in the following programs...