For children, education takes place sitting, standing, running and jumping, it translates into the change of the leaves, imaginary trips around the world and baking a chocolate cake. Learning like real life is something that never stands still. In Dr. Gutstein's latest book, The Relationship Development Intervention Program and Education, readers meet a variety of empowered parents, professionals and consultants that have been able to maintain goals for quality of life, combining efforts in order to achieve effective remediation for their children and students with autism spectrum disorders. This book is a tribute to the people that have been able to see past the system, and focus on the student.
I didn't love this book as much as I thought I would. Being a compilation, there were a couple of really great chapters, but most of the others were not so good. I did get some good insights into how to incorporate RDI into my classroom setting. The chapters on homeschooling were nice, but really just amounted to personal stories. Nothing wrong with that, just not what I was looking for. I definitely think it would be a book that families would get a lot out of.