Relationship Development Intervention with Young Children: Social and Emotional Development Activities for Asperger Syndrome, Autism, PDD and NLD

great experience with seller. the book was in better condition than i thought it would be based on the description. This book is also really great. I am an SLP- 80% of my caseload is on the autism spectrum. it has very detailed explanations for activities. it sis nice for the "coaching" model that we use in early intervention as copies can be given to parents. it's also been really great for my social skills groups.

My son and I love the games in this book, and we often end up in fits of laughter.I also love RDI because it doesn't feel like therapy - it just feels like playing! The games are light and non invasive, and don't involve analytical thinking or psychology etc. This is perfect for my son as he tends to think too much about things. These games get right outside of linear thinking and work on relating.Highly recommended!

I first read this book on lend from the library and i find it to be good resource for designing activities for my autistic kid. But huge disappointment! First of all, the quality appears to be rather poor and akins to those pirated books. There is stark contrast between the book i borrowed from the library and this one.Second, spelling mistakes in the first few pages i read further proves my suspicion is not ungrounded. I require a full refund or free exchange of this book to a proper copyrighted version. this is insane as i never expected this to happen on an amazon purchased item!!

I found this book helpful, but difficult to implement as a program on my own. I spoke to a few people who practice RDI and it seems that in order to really be successful at it, you would need the constant feedback of someone trained in RDI, because progress is very individual. Plus new ideas and techniques have been added and some discarded since the 2002 publication of this book. If you go to an RDI practitioner, you will have access to an entire database of videos of other parents going through the activities. In the end, I used some of the helpful tips from the book; but chose not to go any further with RDI, due to the expense of the program and the progress my son was already making without it.

I'm a school social worker and I facilitate a social skills group daily with students with Autism. I love this book and consider it my Bible for social skills activities. It is based on research, has an excellent theory, the activities are in sequential order of development and short and sweet to perform.

Great book! It gives me ideas of what activities I can do

Great condition! Thank you

excellent book which covers the rdi theraputic approach for working with persons with asd. contains many great activitiesto help kids with asd connect.