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Stress Free Giving
Noticing the dwindling shopping days left until Christmas, I resolve to finish the holiday season and begin the New Year refreshed and renewed. The ideas generated by Helen O'Callaghan, an Australian...
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The Gifts of All Gifts: Part 2
The Gifts of All Gifts: Part 2 by Stacey TessisRDI Certified Consultant, Stacey Tessis In part one of this blog series, I talked about how the greatest gift that you can give your children this holiday...
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Learning to Breathe with RDI: Part 1 of My Story by Bronwen Prazak
RDI Certified Consultant, Bronwen Prazak“Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take But by the moments that take our breath away” Finding Relationship Development Intervention was a moment...
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Where We Are
As we enter the holiday season, marred by the full face of evil visited on innocent children, innocent families and innocent adults, there are questions which will never be answered and motives for...
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Getting to Productive Uncertainty
Getting to Productive Uncertainty: Part 2 of My Story RDI Certified Consultant, Bronwen Prazak I can remember vividly my rising anxiety each year on the first day of school. It would only last the...
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To Resolve or Not to Resolve...That is the Question
Every year about this time I resolve to do many things. There seems a cusp that weighs, one way or another, an inability to follow through, and a desire to do better. This year is no different. But,...
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Making Lemonade out of Lemons
Making Lemonade out of Lemons by Libby MakewskiRDI Certified Consultant, Libby Majewski I have a client who has found herself in a sort of crisis that other parents here have probably experienced as...
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Tennis and Decision Making
Tennis and Decision Making: Part 3 of My Story by Bronwen PrazakRDI Certified Consultant, Bronwen Prazak The tennis coach says, “you have to think about your decision making” and I am startled at the...
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The Joys of Bagging Groceries
The Joys of Bagging Groceries by Audry ToddRDI Certified Consultant, Audrey ToddI have been a certified RDI consultant since 2007. In 2009 my husband and I started a vocational rehabilitation facility...
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Rainy Days and Mondays Always Get Me Down
Following the January 6th Festival of Kings, most families end the holidays by cleaning up and packing away their glitter (not to be confused with the British rock band, Glitterati), lights and...
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Thank You For RDI!
Thank You For RDI! by Dr LorRainne Jones RDI Certified Consultant, DR LorRainne JonesI have a little RDI guy who was diagnosed with PDD at about age 2. When he was 18 months old, I got a call from his...
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The Joy of Being an RDI® Consultant
The Joy of Being an RDI® ConsultantRDI Certified Consultant, Hailin Tchouby Hailin Tchou The following story is heartening and adds to my joy as an RDI consultant. It may not be extraordinary to most...
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Am I My Brother's Keeper?
Today we celebrate families, parents and siblings of our children whose lives are impacted by autism. Many, as they enter university, choose careers supportive of people on the spectrum responding to...
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Progress Made with RDI
Progress Made with RDI®CIT, Charmaine Leeby Charmaine Lee Nat: Before RDI and nowMy son Nat was diagnosed with moderate autism when he was three. Back then, I knew something was not right with him but...
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Happy Feet
The following video came across my desk recently and while I found it cute, I also found it inspirational. RDI has many objectives that result from simple observations of typical development. Our...
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Everybody Is a Genius
Everybody Is A Geniusby Melissa ChanRDI Certified Consultant, Melissa Chan “Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that...
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All Children Have the Right to Experience Life!
If you take a moment and look at this photo, you will notice children totally experiencing their lives with each other, the muddy spring day and the photographer for whom they are posing. Many of us...
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“Nothing dynamic ever happens if nothing unexpected ever happens”
What we know about guiding is that for most of us it happens pretty intuitively. Even glitches are important to provide challenges from which the neurological system grows and develops. Autism is a...
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Why Do Children with Autism Wander?
Why Do Children with Autism Wander?RDI Certified Consultant, April Choulatby April Choulat A new study found that 49% of children with autism wander/elope from safe settings and 62% of families with...
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Long Distance Relationships: How RDI can bring us closer
Long Distance Relationships: How RDI can bring us closerPrue Watsonby Prue WatsonThis is part one of an article about working with clients at a distance, by RDI consultant and Australian Training...
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