Does RDI include a step-by-step plan for parents to help their child?
A. Yes. Dr. Steven Gutstein, the developer of the RDI Program, has exhaustively researched the development of dynamic intelligence in typical children from infancy on. He has developed a hierarchy of objectives that essentially serves as a roadmap in building a mind from the bottom up, beginning at the earliest developmental steps in which the child shows deficits. The RDI Program Certified Consultant first guides parents through a series of parent objectives that involve changing the way they view, relate to, interact with, and communicate with their child in their everyday life. An assessment that includes the child and both parents is performed (the RDA or Relationship Development Assessment). This assessment examines both the state of the parent-child guided participation relationship and the childs developmental level. After parent objectives are mastered, the consultant guides the parents on how to work on specific developmental child objectives to develop dynamic thinking.
