Dr. Greenspan identified that Floortime is most effective when it is the integrating force behind a comprehensive holistic program and is used in many facets of life. Home, school, and therapy programs should all be working together under the same developmental social-emotional framework to establish a universal set of goals to be maintained across environments...
(Stanley Greenspan MD Inc. does not support DIRFloortime or its licensor ICDL, read more….) It is said that children on the autism spectrum and autistic individuals live in their own world, or often retreat to their own worlds, especially when under stress. For adults who choose to have alone time, and/or meet their own needs,...
The Continuous Flow is part of Dr. Greenspan’s 4th social-emotional milestone and is the most important capacity within all of the milestones in his Greenspan/DIR™ Model. It identifies that by 18 months a child should be able to maintain an unstructured interaction for 20 or more circles of a dynamic reciprocal interaction. This capacity of...
