In this webinar, Certified RDI® Consultants Kat Lee and Dr. Sarah Wayland discuss how the pandemic has affected both us as parents, and our children. During the last two years or so, a lot of parents have struggled just to get their kids through each day. Besides the emotional impact of COVID itself on both adults and children, there are many other struggles to contend with.
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RDI At Home: Playing Catch with Dad
A dad and his little girl are playing catch, she moves from a simple back and forth play routine into a different kind of play as she introduces a request for fought and tumble.Watch...
RDI At Home: Stacking Cups
It’s Thursday—like no Thursday we’ve ever known. Parents who are mindful guides help children manage difficult times. This is a video that shares the problems a mother encounters as her...
RDI At Home: A Reciprocal Pattern
It’s Wednesday—like no Wednesday we’ve ever known.Another parent gives insight into daily life and the building of her guiding relationship with her son. This is what to look for—the...
RDI At Home: Making Cookies
The following was submitted by an RDI Parent"This is Mom and Zayd...To help manage the stress of the pandemic we have been doing many daily mundane activities with RDI in mind.This one...
RDI At Home: Setting Up the Grill
It’s Tuesday—like no Tuesday we’ve ever known.Today’s video spotlights perseverance, thinking and resilience.Watch this child figure out how to put a grill together.A first look suggests...
RDI At Home: Variations on the Game of War
It’s Monday—like no Monday we’ve ever known.In response to quarantine and isolation, RDI families and consultants are sharing videos of themselves working and playing with their...
RDI At Home: Master Chef
It’s Saturday—like no Saturday we’ve ever known.Watch this Masterchef juggle more than one dish at a time. His Consultant Kamini Lakhani, RDI Trainer for India, writes: We discovered...
RDI At Home: Monster Walk
It’s Friday—like no Friday we’ve ever known.Feeling cooped up, lacking energy, need to exercise? Grab a child and do the Monster Walk. I won’t ruin it with too many details but do take...
RDI At Home: Action for Action
It’s Thursday—like no Thursday we’ve ever known.This video demonstrates very clearly how a basic idea that remains the same can be changed ever so slightly as it begins to explore larger...
RDI At Home: Sharing Perspectives/Smelling Together
It’s Monday—like no Monday we’ve ever known.There are some very obvious differences in capabilities when a child has autism. Most striking is the inability to understand the perspective...
RDI At Home: Build a Castle
RDI is about thinking and cognitive development. If I ask you “What is your idea?” you may struggle to come up with something or even ask, “about?". But, in a different way what if I tell you “This...
RDI At Home: Making Juice
Parents often ask for ways to work on referencing facial expression tone of voice and body language because their child might have language but is missing these important elements for conversation....
Mohit The Artist
In every generation an artist comes along whose expression pushes the evolutionary aesthetic curve. Meet Mohit and watch Mohit paint. His fascination with internal landscapes expresses a powerful...
RDI At Home: An Apple a Day
It’s Tuesday—like no Tuesday we’ve ever known. As you watch this video, pay close attention to the guiding relationship between this mother and her son. It is a sweet interaction that is very...
RDI At Home: Drawing with Mom
It’s Tuesday—like no Tuesday we’ve ever known. A lovely, low-key example of using an every day experience to work on perspective taking. "The children are all home- due to the lock down."Look at how...
RDI At Home: Daily Rhythm
It’s Monday—like no Monday we’ve ever known. A Homeschool RDI Mom share her valuable wisdom and invites you to turn this period of isolation into an opportunity: Greetings from an RDI mom in Texas!...
RDI At Home: Cutting Veggies -Set Pattern to Achieve Joint Coordination
It’s Sunday—like no Sunday we’ve ever known. Dr. Dhanashri, a consultant from India shows the power of an every day regulatory pattern as a backdrop for growing a child’s mind. Notice the attention...
RDI At Home: Setting the Table
It’s Saturday—like no Saturday we’ve ever known. A principle of RDI is that parents of children on the spectrum know how to guide their children—RDI simply helps them develop the desire for guiding...
RDI At Home: Glove Experiment
It’s Wednesday—like no Wednesday we’ve ever known. Get ready to hold your breath. This mother, an expert guide, shares a simple science experience with every day kitchen ingredients. I found myself...
RDI At Home: Remediate Core Deficits of Autism
It’s Tuesday—like no Tuesday we’ve ever known. As you watch this video you may find yourself confused. (I did) What are they doing, I kept asking myself. And, when they finished there was magic....
RDI At Home: Make a Funny Face
It’s Monday—like no Monday we’ve ever known. As you watch this, video you will be struck by its simplicity and far reaching impact on a young child’s ability to share experiences and enjoy non...
RDI At Home: Pouring Water
It’s Saturday—like no Saturday we’ve ever known. In this lovely little video you will see a mother and her son enjoying a simple activity of pouring water. Pay attention to the child’s attention. He...
RDI At Home: Nonverbal Communication with Teddy Bear
It’s Wednesday—like no Wednesday we’ve ever known. I have watched this wonderful video many times and I am still laughing. Dr. Dhanashri and her son are communicating without words. Dr. Dhanashri...
RDI At Home: Gardening as a Pastime
It’s Sunday—like no Sunday we’ve ever known. This is a bird’s eye view of the Guiding Relationship between a grandfather and grandson. Note the child’s observation of his grandfather and his...
RDI At Home: Working as a Team
It’s Saturday—like no Saturday we’ve ever known. Like many of you I am experiencing the cabin fever associated with quarantine, curfews and isolation. An RDI Consultant in Training, Sheila He...
RDI At Home: Change
It’s Friday—like no Friday we’ve ever known. Every now and again we are privileged to observe a rare and beautiful talent. This video, by a very creative young lady, describes the importance of...
RDI At Home: How to be Present With Your Child
It’s Thursday—like no Thursday we’ve ever known. RDI consultants, Julie Meyerowitz SLP and Sarah Wayland PhD reflect on autism, parents at home with children and specific things you will want to do...
RDI At Home: Virtual Hike
It’s Wednesday—like no Wednesday we’ve ever known. Taking the perspective of another person is a difficult milestone for our children. Because of the current self quarantine and social distancing,...
RDI At Home: Cleaning Up Blocks
It’s Tuesday, like no Tuesday we’ve every known. This little activity lends itself to variations that may come to you only as you try it out. Looking for more? We are throwing open our doors, we are...
RDI At Home: Coordinated Dinner
It’s Monday—like no Monday we’ve ever known. You are home and it’s time for dinner. Turn it into an RDI moment with Nick and his mom. Watch this duo coordinate their actions to work on a casserole....
RDI At Home: Finding Beauty At Home
It’s Sunday like no Sunday we’ve ever known. We are inside and trying to manage our children and ourselves. Entertaining our children has been exhausting. Take an old telephone book outside...
RDI® At Home: Spelling is Universal
RDI® in Action This video shows RDI® in action, as father and son work together to spell out the word 'universal'. Pausing to give your child enough time to come up with the answer is a major part...
RDI At Home: Pizza Fridays
It’s Friday, like no Friday we’ve ever known. Time for Pizza! You will find yourself smiling as this father and son try to figure out what each other wants to put on the pizza. Notice the pacing and...
RDI At Home: Planting Seeds
It’s Thursday—like no Thursday we’ve ever known. Join Kathy Darrow and plan for a summer harvest. If you don’t have seed packets readily available, cut open fruit or vegetables from the refrigerator...
RDI At Home: Dance! Dance! Dance!
It’s Wednesday—like no Wednesday we’ve every known. We are working from home. We are playing as we work. This is a video of Charlee at her dance recital. It’s quite beautiful. We are spotlighting...
You can do RDI anywhere!
What is RDI, how is it implemented and how the online platform means less dependence on outside therapists.
How Having a Summer Job Will Benefit Your Children
Play in early developmental is the work of childhood, but work itself, is also the work of growing up.
A Lesson Learned
“The most valuable lessons come not from teachers or textbooks, but from life experience.”
Volunteering – Not a Thing of the Past
Volunteering builds a work ethic and puts feet to compassion.
Gratitude: an Antidote to Selfishness
Being thankful is not only relevant, but an antidote to selfishness that can foster resilience and empathy…