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How do I track and document a child’s short-term goals in Floortime?
Discussion: It can often seem difficult to quantify Floortime progress, but it doesn’t have to be.The question we seem to be asking ourselves is: “how do we use the DIR model in terms of getting funding when the funding agency wants you to earmark ‘short term goals’?” notes Dr. Greenspan.One way of thinking about this…
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How do I track and document a child’s short-term goals in Floortime?
How can a therapist identify short-term goals when implementing the Greenspan Floortime approach? Discussion: It can often seem difficult to quantify Floortime progress, but it doesn’t have to be. The question we seem to be asking ourselves is: “how do we use the DIR model in terms of getting funding when the funding agency wants…
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How Floortime Works: A Parent Review of Engaging Autism
In her book review of Engaging Autism: Using the Floortime Approach to Help Children Relate, Communicate, and Think, Dr. Karen Zelan says the following: The authors devote several chapters explaining to parents how the Floortime model works. Much of what the authors describe represents informed, effective play psychotherapy. What’s more, the model was devised so…
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How should I integrate different autism treatment strategies
How should a parent integrate different autism treatment strategies? How can a parent know whether an autism treatment strategy is right for their own child? Discussion: In addition to the Floortime therapy, you may want to consider new and innovative interventions that are coming to the fore, suggests Dr. Greenspan. “No one intervention, no matter…
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How Social-Emotional Interactions Drive Sensory-based Interventions: UNDERSTANDING AYRES SENSORY INTEGRATION® and Floortime
In the 1960’s, Jean Ayres, an occupational therapist, psychologist, and neuroscientist challenged traditional occupational therapy ideals by looking at the whole child and their perception and response to their environment, not simply focusing on specific components of a motor pattern. In 1972, Ayres stated that sensory systems develop in an integrated manner and depend on…