RDI can best be described quickly by looking at its different components.
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Parent-education |
Parent-led |
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| RDI is a parent-education program, designed so that you can perform the intervention in your home on your schedule and without the need to rely on a therapist for years without end. Caregivers learn current cognitive rehabilitation principles and techniques so you can perform simple, scaffolded activities with your loved one. The program progresses through stages that the developers have outlined, and objectives serve to focus and guide the educational process. | RDI employs a parent-led model because the family is the number one teacher. The parent-led model also improve the difficult issue of consistency. Children go from therapist to therapist or teacher to teacher depending on various factors, but the child is with his parents more than anybody else. Who better to perform the intervention? This way, you will become your child's guide, as you make the world more navigable. |
Objectives and Stages |
Education and Consulting Services |
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| We use developmental objectives to aid us as we build our plans for each stage. The objectives are developmental in nature because we are working on developmental issues such as joint attention, gaze shifting, theory of mind, reading social cues, and other important topics. We use the objectives to guide our lessons and homework assignments. | The main function of the Consultant is to guide, support, give feedback, and help create our plans. If requested, the consultant can meet with the family's other professionals to coordinate efforts, incorporate speech, PT, or OT goals into our work. The consultant works to make the parents self-sufficient as quickly as possible. |
Dynamic Intelligence Curriculum |
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While parents progress through the series of stages, their children are also working on objectives that are designed to improve their Dynamic Intelligence. Dynamic Intelligence needs defining here. |
Among other things, dynamic intelligence consists of being able to rapidly analyze, appraise, evaluate, adapt, collaborate, compromise, and innovate. In the real world, problem solving, communication, social relationships, and self-regulation require a continuous process of adapting to uncertainty and change. |
Dynamic Intelligence is the type of intelligence we use when we are having a conversation or driving a car. We are continuously monitoring many different sources of information and using that information to make our next decisions. We read people's body language, words, tone of voice, eye gaze, etc.. Or when driving, we monitor traffic, pedestrians, signs, lights, lines, weather, etc.. Quite a complex process when you think about it, yet it comes so easily to us after some practice. |
The video clip below is the first ten minutes of a longer video that Dr. gutstein has made in order to introduce RDI. The clip will introduce RDI, show you his perspective, and give you an idea of the work we would do together.
Dr. Gutstein gives an introduction to RDI