68 Activities to Do with Your Child

I have compiled a short list of a few activities you can do with your child in which you can incorporate the basic principles of RDI.

Remember:

• Experience sharing can become a positive addiction for people on the autism spectrum
• Build motivation by creating strong, positive, episodic memories
• Pace your actions and expectations based on the child’s needs and limitations

68 Activities to do with your child

Folding laundry

Weeding

Playing with a ball

Dancing

Cooking

Skating

Watering

Shopping

Growing plants

Looking at photos

Praying

Swinging coordination

Pretending to be another person

Searching for things

Surprising

Games, and creating game variations

Geo-catching

Pillow fighting

Tug-of-war

Puzzle working

Digging holes

Body temperature taking

Water balloon throwing

Paper airplane construction

Making a pond

Mapping, favorite routes, alternate routes, distances, landmarks

Cleaning windows

Making sandcastles

Sinking toy boats

Moving heavy objects, moving fragile objects

Creating a whirlpool

Rolling things up and down hills

Lining up dominoes

Creating an absurd animal out of clay

Write a poem

Finding each other in the darkness, blindfolded

Hide and seek, peek a boo

Build a bean bag or pillow mountain

Drumming

Basketball passing

Lighting fires

Video narrating

Rock skipping

Sign making (marathon coming up in your town? )

Comic book creating

Rock piling

Floating different objects

Dissolving different things

Kite flying

Hopscotch

Setting up a photo shoot

Swinging things

Obstacle course constructing

Over and under inflating

Silly video narrating

Hitting a baseball

Throwing a ball

Pouring without spilling

Training a pet

Letter writing

Breathing regulation

Polishing silver

Ironing

I spy, guessing games

Dusting

Bed making

Bathing

Sweeping coordination

RDI is an autism intervention that takes the power of remediation from the professionals and puts it in the hands of parents. Guided by certified RDI clinicians, parents are provided the tools to effectively teach Relationship Intelligence skills and motivation to their children.

Each child is provided with a tailored program to fit their particular needs while starting at the foundations of the disorder. Gradually as confidence and competence are shared and sustained RDI becomes much more than an intervention, it becomes a fulfilling lifestyle.

Instead of teaching short term compensating, RDI is centered on treating the core deficits of autism.