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<blockquote data-quote="buddy" data-source="post: 483265" data-attributes="member: 12886"><p>I was blessed to have co-workers who loved RDI approach to things and so we were able to include many of the activities in social skills groups and even in our preschool autism classroom activities. I have had several email conversations with them over the years. </p><p></p><p>I like that they are not so single focused, their activities are very specific based on skill level/need but they are open to other methods to teach skills like academic skills teaching etc. </p><p></p><p>I love that the goal is focused on developing the intrinsic rewards of social interactions, not necessarily getting an m&m for doing the "right thing" as is done in ABA. That is NOT to say I dont think ABA has it's place. I have seen wonders with it, in terms of a kid learning something pretty quickly that makes their day go much more smoothly and provides them with a break from behaviors that interfere with learning etc. And by doing the "right thing" or appropriate behaviors, they then can learn thru experience that it is rewarding, and hopefully the clinician working fades reinforcement appropriately. Unless you have a very savvy clinician, you can end up with a child/adult only doing things for the reward. They can learn to say "Fine, thanks, how are you?" but it may be that exact statement under a certain situation. They may not have learned the intrinsic communication reward. Now many of our kids wont regardless of the method, but RDI's goal is to give them a chance. The best part of their site, not sure if it is there now...is the message boards with people who have autism and other disabilities that impair them socially, they discuss their journeys and you can hear the social development in their posts. </p><p></p><p>The issue for my family and many of my friends, talking about things, the collaborative problem solving steps just does not do it. Until my son does a behavior over and over things dont change. But it is true for him recently especially that including him in solvig a problem at least opens the door for him to try things another way. </p><p></p><p>And it is overwhelming to me that each and every single one of the skill deficits are huge for my son.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="buddy, post: 483265, member: 12886"] I was blessed to have co-workers who loved RDI approach to things and so we were able to include many of the activities in social skills groups and even in our preschool autism classroom activities. I have had several email conversations with them over the years. I like that they are not so single focused, their activities are very specific based on skill level/need but they are open to other methods to teach skills like academic skills teaching etc. I love that the goal is focused on developing the intrinsic rewards of social interactions, not necessarily getting an m&m for doing the "right thing" as is done in ABA. That is NOT to say I dont think ABA has it's place. I have seen wonders with it, in terms of a kid learning something pretty quickly that makes their day go much more smoothly and provides them with a break from behaviors that interfere with learning etc. And by doing the "right thing" or appropriate behaviors, they then can learn thru experience that it is rewarding, and hopefully the clinician working fades reinforcement appropriately. Unless you have a very savvy clinician, you can end up with a child/adult only doing things for the reward. They can learn to say "Fine, thanks, how are you?" but it may be that exact statement under a certain situation. They may not have learned the intrinsic communication reward. Now many of our kids wont regardless of the method, but RDI's goal is to give them a chance. The best part of their site, not sure if it is there now...is the message boards with people who have autism and other disabilities that impair them socially, they discuss their journeys and you can hear the social development in their posts. The issue for my family and many of my friends, talking about things, the collaborative problem solving steps just does not do it. Until my son does a behavior over and over things dont change. But it is true for him recently especially that including him in solvig a problem at least opens the door for him to try things another way. And it is overwhelming to me that each and every single one of the skill deficits are huge for my son. [/QUOTE]
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