The Core Deficits of Autism
ASD: A New Perspective Podcast
Static Thinking VS Dynamic Thinking
Static Thinking vs Dynamic Thinking When you live in a static thinking world, things either are either similar to one another or they are different. When you live in a dynamic thinking world things are similar AND they are different. So what happens in a world when...
Learning from Experience
What we find is that through that more deliberative process of bookmarking, reviewing, constructing, saving, organizing…we also strengthen that encouragement to intuitively recognize something when we see it.
Gestures and Communication: Part 2
One of the things we do when we are forming experience representations are always doing enactments. We’re not using narrative words, we’re doing enactments.
Gestures and Communication: Part 1
When we’re using our body, we tend to use that part of the brain that manages experiences. Many people with Autism have been taught to use language as a task. As a performance-based measure. They wind up losing the sense of experience. The sense of flow with other people.
Why There is Hope in RDI
There are differences in how children with autism develop, but there is hope for growth and connection with RDI.
The Importance of Self
Autism, social relationships, and relating to the self.
Dynamic Intelligence Starts Early
How necessary is Dynamic Intelligence for our children?
The Controlling Child
When your child with ASD is trying to control his environment (either his parents or the world around him) what does it mean?
Why Do I Feel Incompetent as a Parent?
Why do we feel so incompetent at times and how do we become empowered as parents again?
Signs that ASD Infants Are Motivated to Maintain Stability
A successful Guiding Relationship takes two active participants. But as autism interrupts natural development, infants shut down in their ability to participate and can offer nothing for parents to respond to or guide.
The Biggest Loss for Infants & Parents
The most devastating consequence of ASD is the loss of access to a Guiding Relationship for infants, which is vital for their growth and development.
ASD Infants: The Beginning of Disengagement
In this episode, Dr. Gutstein explain what is happening initially in the brains of ASD infants as they begin to diverge from typical development.
ASD: In the Beginning
In this first podcast, Dr. Steven Gutstein starts at the beginning by explaining what happens in infant development in the first months of life.