Autism: A New Perspective Podcast
An RDIconnect® PublicationAt the heart of what we do is an unwavering belief that growth is possible in the life of individuals on the autism spectrum. This foundational belief comes from the latest autism research and our experience with thousands of cases where the child’s growth-seeking drive has been activated, making a way for the crucial parent-child Guiding Relationship to form and for Dynamic Intelligence to develop.
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Time To Fly: Trusting Your Instincts with Your Child
They doubt their own inside voice and they doubt their own competence. They don’t doubt their competence with their other children, but autism is a wedge, it’s like a wedge with glue, and it drives families apart.
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.
HOPE: A Case Study
What I liked about the conversation was that these six things show a self-reflection, they show the hard work he’s done, they actually kind of document the guiding relationship he had with his parents.
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.
School and Your Child
The whole point of RDI is that we want our children to become independent in the way that they’re going to become independent is by learning to think and to use their brains in a way that they need to be used.
Main Obstacle for Parents
The main obstacle if you’re a parent is that your child is not coming to you with the excitement, the motivation to grow. But RDI can help.
Empowering the Family!
In RDI we believe there is a parallel process between the consultant and the parent, and the parent and the child… We’re giving them the tools so they can begin to think of their own objectives, they can come up with them.
More than Social Skills!
There’s still an implicit assumption that people with Autism have to fake it, or that if you just get them to behave a certain way, that that’s a sign of great progress. We have to change it.
Take the Autism Glasses Off!
Sometimes when an autism diagnosis comes in, there’s a veil that falls over our dreams. Will there be hope again?
The Importance of Self-Communication
Gestures and Autism: The Importance of SELF Communication