Episodes
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Wellbeing is defined as the state of being ācomfortable, healthy, and happy,ā a simple definition for something that, for many people, isnāt quite so simple. Life gets in the way of our self-care and our wellbeing, and this can be especially true for parents of children who have special needs.
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RDIĀ® can help all families, and your child can benefit from starting RDIĀ® at any age, but the program is designed to promote growth, learning, development, and the ability to have relationships and perform necessary life skills, and, eventually, independence in adulthood. Your child can benefit from RDIĀ® into their teen years and into young adulthood, if they are not yet ready for adulthood.
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In this episode of Autism: A New Perspective, Kat Lee talks with special guest Dr. Sarah Wayland, an RDIĀ® Certified Consultant and parenting coach, about raising autistic teens, RDIĀ® and navigating high school on the spectrum.
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Using functioning diagnostic labels on children and adults with autism is damaging to them. Dr. Rachelle Sheely, co-founder of RDIconnect talks more about it.
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In this episode of āAutism: A New Perspective,ā we continue the discussion about raising girls with autism. Kat Lee is joined by special guest Sharon Sargeant, an RDIĀ® parent whose daughter is now an adult. Sharon talks about the difficulty of getting a diagnosis in the early 90s, trying ABA, and discovering RDIĀ® when her daughter was 12 years old.
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As parents, we can use RDIĀ® concepts to introduce our children to more variables and increasingly dynamic situations, when they are ready. Children with autism are more than capable of achieving growth, development, and quality of life, just like neurotypical children, but they must be given the chance - and they must be able to move at their own pace.
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In this episode, Kat Lee and special guest Nargis Carnahan delve into the joys and challenges of raising a daughter on the spectrum, and how autistic girls who grow up to be autistic women have a set of their own unique challenges they must face.
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In this episode of "Autism: A New Perspective," Dr. Sheely talks about the things that might trigger a state of crisis again for some parents, how to know if you're in a crisis state, and what you can do to move yourself out of it.
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What makes us human is the product of our orientation and our engagement with a dynamic variation. So how does this fit into a world where you are resistant to change? How can you help your child, without overwhelming or stressing them out, see the world as something to be discovered and experienced?
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Why does RDIĀ® use Consultants? When we got interested in autism, the incident was 1 in 10,000 people, and what we were seeing was parents giving their children over to “professionals”, assuming that anybody would be better with their children than they were. Dr. Gutstein and I never believed that so the consultant model was […]
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Dynamic Intelligence is thriving in a world with partial predictability and getting used to living in a world of uncertainty.
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Sometimes there is a misconception that RDI does not work with children who are non-verbal, that this is not for them. But Dr. Rachelle Sheely talks about her work with children on the spectrum that were non-verbal and how RDIĀ® can be used with every child.
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A lot of people think there's this continuum of dynamic on one end and static on the other, where you got this opposite... That sort of the opposite of static, and it's not at all. On the one end, you've got static, but on the other end you've got chaotic or random. And that's what systems theories tell us, and there are two very important ways in which dynamic situations or systems are different from their chaotic ones.
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When you have someone older the parents are often very tired, because they've been trying so many things. It's very difficult for them to dream again.
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For some reason, the necessary MindGuiding Relationship that typically forms between parent and child during the first year of life doesn't happen with autistic individuals--but with RDIĀ®, it is possible to re-establish this relationship and nurture the growth mindset in your child.
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In the general population, there's a spectrum of people. Not everybody is going to be a college professor, and some people are going to have jobs as an assistant at Starbucks, and other people are going to have jobs as engineers. And so when I see someone who has a job as a greeter at Starbucks and has autism and has a girlfriend, I see that as an incredible success.
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With the rate of employment among ASD adults low and rates of depression and suicide high, it's clear that something isn't working. RDI addresses this deficit.
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My advice to RDIĀ® parents is to make sure you and your consultant are asking, "How does everybody get on the same page and how do you come together as a family?" Not an autism family, but how do you come together as a family?
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As children with autism grow up and inch closer to adulthood, there are sometimes lingering concerns--What if we didnāt do enough? What if we went in the wrong direction? What if independence isnāt possible?--but growth is possible into adulthood.
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RDIĀ® focuses on well-being in children with Autism, rather than assessments and measurements, giving them independence and true quality of life.
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