• Dr. Greenspan- the issues with how children are being diagnosed-from 1992 (they are the same today)

  • Dr. Greenspan’s Framework: Why the Terminology We Use Matters

    **Stanley I Greenspan MD Inc. does not support ICDL or its DIRFloortime.  In discussions about Dr. Greenspan’s framework, I’ve often heard professionals trained in ‘non-Greenspan’ versions of Floortime say, “We’re using different words, but saying the same thing.”   While I’m sure they believed they had been taught and were expressing the same ideas that I…

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  • Emotional Engagement of Children with Autism

    The core symptoms of autistic spectrum disorder are all addressed by Dr. Stanley Greenspan’s Floortime Approach. The three components of Dr. Greenspan’s Floortime Approach–a capacity for intimacy, an ability to communicate expressively, and the capacity for meaningful speech–address these missing or underdeveloped abilities of children with autism. Each of these three missing or underdeveloped functional…

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  • Encouraging New Ideas

    This Greenspan Floortime advice is about helping children develop new ideas. One of the challenges many children with communication difficulties experience is coming up with new ideas or expanding on ideas they may already have. One of the best ways that we find to assist children in developing new ideas without giving them a new…

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  • Engaging and interacting with a Sensitive Child- Playful Obstruction