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Relationship Development Intervention with Young Children: Social and Emotional Development Activities for Asperger Syndrome, Autism, PDD and NLD
Friendship, even for the most able, requires hard work, and the odds are heavily stacked against those with autism spectrum conditions. Designed for younger children, typically between the ages of two and eight, this comprehensive set of enjoyable activities emphasizes foundation skills such as social referencing, regulating behavior, conversational reciprocity and synchronized actions. The authors include many objectives to plan and evaluate a child's progress, each one related to a specific exercise. Suitable for parental use, the manual is also designed for easy implementation in schools and in therapeutic settings.
332 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2002
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March 29, 2022
This is the book that got us started on our home therapy journey. I was looking for alternatives to ABA for my oldest (who is autistic), and stumbled upon Relationship Development Intervention. It was all about building connection, the thing I wanted more than anything for my daughter. I picked up this textbook second hand and started studying.
It was originally written several decades ago, and there is a heavy reliance on bean bags in the therapeutic activities. I remember bean bag chairs being all over the place in the eighties and nineties, but now if you look for them online it's mostly the bag into which you can put stuffed animals. And true bean bags are expensive at $50 bucks a pop if you need 15-20 of them! Also, where to store all those bean bags??? All this to say, I've knocked off one star because many of the bean-bag activities were not accessible to us.
But beyond the bean bag activities, this book has plenty of jumping off points to start fostering the building blocks of true, emotional connection with Autistic children and others who may have social differences, and is still well worth the read.
It was originally written several decades ago, and there is a heavy reliance on bean bags in the therapeutic activities. I remember bean bag chairs being all over the place in the eighties and nineties, but now if you look for them online it's mostly the bag into which you can put stuffed animals. And true bean bags are expensive at $50 bucks a pop if you need 15-20 of them! Also, where to store all those bean bags??? All this to say, I've knocked off one star because many of the bean-bag activities were not accessible to us.
But beyond the bean bag activities, this book has plenty of jumping off points to start fostering the building blocks of true, emotional connection with Autistic children and others who may have social differences, and is still well worth the read.
April 6, 2012
excellent resource!!
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