09/05/2024
Sharing a testimonial by one of my patient family.
Hello everyone, I am the mother of an 8 years old son who is on the Autism Spectrum.
For the past 2 years he has been on RDI program under the esteemed mentorship of Dr. Dhanashree Pawar. The main challenge we faced was that he couldn’t understand other person’s perspective. He couldn’t expres empathy.
Yesterday a miraculous incident happened and I as a parent wanted to share the same with you. We went to the park in the evening.There was a tunnel with stairs on one end and slide on other end.
My son always climbs in from the slide end to the tunnel rather than climbing up the stairs.
A small girl, 3-4 years old was sitting at the slide end.
He said ,”get aside”on which the girl said “No”.Again he pleaded, she said no again then he told her father to tell her to get aside. Her father told him to climb up the stairs and come down.
In the past,my son could not take this change and would have got very hyper but now my son seemed calm.
Just then another little boy came from the other end and was about to hit the girl’s back. We didn’t notice this until my son shouted,”watch out” to the girl and he put his hand behind her back so that she doesn’t get hurt.He was able to express his empathy so well.
He didn’t want her to get hurt though she was not listening to him.
It was a heart warming sight and I could feel how sensitive he was.
After two years of training under the supervision of Dr Dhanashri ,I now believe in the power of parent training, for the brain development of neurodiverse children.
A heartfelt gratitude to Dr. Pawar for handholding me and being the torch bearer.These changes were not possible if she had not trained me and help me comprehend the magical RDI program.
Mrs Singh
