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Why the RDI® Program will keep evolving:

While the first version of the RDI® Program was based on the latest scientific research available at the time, we live in a dynamic environment where change is constant. As a result of new research and new feedback from our successful families, the methods of the RDI® Program will keep changing and being refined to take advantage of this new information.

The RDI® Program now includes an emphasis on:

• user-friendly ways of developing mastery in current objectives during everyday activities;
• developing an appropriate mix of verbal and non-verbal communication, declarative, regulatory and self-regulatory and self-narrative language;
• developing episodic memory, which is the foundation of building motivation; and
• developing continually more challenging cycles of regulation, challenge and new regulation.

What will not change about the RDI® Program are its foundations and values:

• the focus on quality of life;
• reciprocal, successful, genuinely fulfilling relationships;
• learning to enjoy living in a relative world, in dynamic environments where change is constant but can be enriching;
• a desire to grow and expand one's ventures out into the world;
• developing and maintaining everyone's feeling of competence and healthy empowerment.

We invite you to help us evolve the RDI® Program through the coming years and look forward to hearing about your successes. Please stay connected!

The reference point for the RDI® Program success will always be quality of life.

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