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What is Greenspan Floortime?
What is Greenspan Floortime? Greenspan Floortime is the center of a comprehensive program that benefits children at risk for developmental disorders that include autism spectrum disorders. What is Greenspan Floortime really about? Greenspan Floortime has two dimensions. Both of these two dimensions are important for helping children of all abilities but are vitally important for…
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What is Social-Emotional Health, and How is it Different from Social-Emotional Skills?
Most people think of social-emotional health and social-emotional skills as synonyms. While these are related, they are also different. Traditionally, social-emotional skills are often described as a child’s ability to be calm, listen, express themselves, follow instructions, share, take turns, etc. While these are all part of social-emotional health, the skills, like sharing and taking…
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What is the Continuous Flow? “Proto-Conversations”
What is the Continuous Flow? “Proto-Conversations” 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…
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When following the child’s lead doesn’t lead to engagement
The first step in Greenspan Floortime is to follow the child’s lead. Once the child interacts with us, which is them allowing us into their world, we can move on to Step Two. What should we do when doing that doesn’t result in the child engaging and accepting us as partners? Unfortunately, the child engaging…
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Where do Children Learn Social Skills, At School or at Home?
Research shows, and professionals agree, that having social interest and developing social skills are necessary for long term social-emotional health. However, there seems to be a common misconception that schools and ‘peer modeling’ are responsible for a child’s social skill development. While that would make everyone’s lives easier, it is simply not true. Social skills…