RDI® Parent Coaching and Assessments
Parent coaching is extremely important to the integrity of the RDI® program. RDI® emphasizes each trusted adult’s, each guide’s, strategies with their child and/or student. A guide’s role when teaching our children or clients is to provide security while encouraging new challenges. These are the “small challenges” described on our homepage. This balance pairing security with uncertainty is called the Zone of Proximity and it frequently changes in response to individual development!
Kris Worrell is our RDI® Consultant. She performs relationship development assessments, introduces parents and caregivers to the guided participation relationship, develops intervention plans with parents for both Dynamic Connections and home, and provides on-going family consultation. Kris, as a guide, initially provides generous guidance towards structure (framework) and scaffolding (support), then incorporates family and individual strengths and interests, and ultimately plays a more passive role to consult while parents, caregivers, and individual clients begin confidently and almost naturally taking the lead to determine their own path of development.
Parents and caregivers are encouraged to join program activities. We use these opportunities to highlight the core deficits described on our homepage. Through pauses during the activity and video taping to evaluate afterwards, we notice effective strategies, celebrate interactions and solve problems. A staff is available for support or simply to share in the experience the entire time. At Dynamic Connections, we are so proud of the work we do and love sharing with everyone who is interested.
To contact us, please call 651-760-3109 or fill out the contact form, and a member of our team will respond promptly to answer your questions, schedule a consultation, or provide more information about our programs.
Thank you for considering Dynamic Connections—we’re committed to fostering meaningful growth and genuine connections for every individual we serve.
