RDI

• Gutstein and Sheely – ASD children miss important development without interventions.

  Impairment means they need to construct parent, child relationships.
• Dynamic intelligence is the ability to flexibly, consider events from others perspective. RDI offers a second chance to change patterns of interaction. Help children from personal relationships, starting with caregiver to develop emotional bonds and improve quality of life.
• Objectives


  • Emotional referencing
  • Social coordination
  • Declarative language
  • Flexible thinking
  • Rational information process
  • Foresight
  • Hindsight
• Emotional referencing


  Improve verbal and non-verbal communication skills to help understand how others feel and allow them to share emotional experiences
• Social coordination


  Control behaviour to fit others emotions – 'put on a happy face'
• Declarative language


  Non/verbal communication to allow express interests, invite social interaction, share emotion
• Flexible thinking


  Adapt quickly in changing situations
• Rational information process


  Put problems into wider context and solve them
• Foresight


  What might happen as a result of your behaviour
• Hindsight


  Recall what happened last time To predict future outcome
• Process

  Work closely with family, meet weekly to establish aims

  Workshop + meeting others in treatment. Paired with others, apply skills

  Progress is monitored

  Family re-assessed every 6-12 months
• +      Gustein – 16 children over 2 years 15 of who were in special ed classrooms, only 3 after

  +      14 who were assess as ‘autism range’ only 2 after *treating?*

  +      Improve social, educational and cognitive function
• -      Researcher bias

  -      No comparison to a control

  Lack of evidence
• Ethical implications

  +      Reduce pressure on family

  +      Increase self-esteem and happiness

  +      Reduce symptoms

  -      Research or marketing ????
• Social impliactions

  -      Branded and trademarked to profit off treatment

  Wasting time on ineffective treatment, supported with no research proving effective is damaging. Hides potentially beneficial treatments