I really don't see how some people can write their blogs every day. They must have too much time on their hands, or no life. But then I see blogs of parents with autistic kids who write these huge passages of text every day. Who knows how they fit the time in. I'm not Bloggy McBlogstein. I can't write in a blog every day. I guess I prefer to let a bit build up, then blog it.
Anyway...see that picture up there? That's Northbridge, in a suburb of Sydney called, funnily enough, Northbridge. I've rarely driven across it in my life cause I've never really had to visit that area before. But now I do quite a bit. To a lot of people, it's just a nice old bridge to drive across. But to me now, it's the grand entrance to Autismland. Cause that's where our RDI therapist's office is.
We've started our parental RDI training. Before we even start interacting with the boy, us as his parents have to do an intensive online course to develop our basic understanding of RDI and what is expected of us. It involves watching & reading masses of information about RDI, and then answering questionnaires after each parental module about what we'd just read or watched. The therapist assesses our answers and we progress to the next module. I think there's about 10 parental modules to complete, each about an hour each - not including the time to fill out the questions afterwards.
That's right, we've gone back to school!
