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Why ADLs Aren’t “Just Skills”—They’re Developmental Opportunities
Why ADLs Aren’t “Just Skills”—They’re Developmental Opportunities How Greenspan Floortime® builds real-life interdependence through connection. Greenspan Floortime® is widely recognized as a child-centered, thinking-based approach using play and meaningful relationships to encourage child development. However, one of its most practical and powerful applications happens outside of traditional therapy sessions—it happens during everyday Activities of Daily…
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Your Brain: The Time Traveler That Predicts Your Next Move
Our brains are not just passive recorders of the present; they’re dynamic, predictive machines constantly anticipating the future. This “predictive and anticipatory nature” is fundamental to how we navigate the world, learn, and even experience consciousness. It’s less like a camera capturing a scene and more like a sophisticated AI constantly running simulations. The Predictive…
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About Floortime
The Greenspan Floortime Approach is a system developed by the late Dr. Stanley Greenspan. Floortime meets children where they are and builds upon their strengths and abilities through creating a warm relationship and interacting. It challenges them to go further and to develop who they are rather than what their diagnosis says. In Floortime, you…
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ASD Children pretend play
Can autistic children play pretend? Does autism make kids unable to pretend play? Some people think so. Some believe that ASD diagnosed children are incapable of pretend play. Dr. Stanley Greenspan certainly didn’t think so. In fact, the Greenspan Floortime model includes informed and effective play psychotherapy as a key aspect of its therapeutic process….
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ASD Level 1, 2, or 3: How should Diagnostic Distinctions Guide Treatment?
These numbers are often given to describe the degree or level of a child’s challenges on the autism spectrum. While some professionals think that a Level 1 or ‘mild’ diagnosis means a child just needs a little support or a little help to ‘catch up’ and teach them a few missing skills, the truth is…