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Dr. Stanley Greenspan created Floortime in the 1980s. Over his 30 years of working with thousands of children with special needs, he saw Floortime help them grow and develop. This overview—with video from his conferences— introduces you to Greenspan Floortime.

Research has determined that parents’ involvement in their child’s program improves development. Learning Floortime allows you to do it at home, work with a clinician more productively, or guide caretakers and teachers.

Greenspan Floortime offers its Floortime Manual to follow up on this overview with more in-depth training.

 

Please Note: Some of the filming is in dim light. We are using it because Dr. Greenspan’s rich insights are best coming from him.

There are seven videos in this series: 

Study Questions

  1. What is the Greenspan/DIR model?
    1. An intervention that follows a chronological order to teach skills.
    2. Something you do to mitigate affective experiences available to children.
    3. Teaching a behavior to address a specific symptom a child displays.
    4. A model used to identify a child’s social-emotional strengths and weaknesses.
  2. Which is NOT a part of the Greenspan approach?
    1. Relating within meaningful, positive relationships
    2. Communication across all therapeutic curriculums
    3. Teaching a child an outcome, what to say, and what to do
    4. Encouraging a child to do the thinking
  3. The Greenspan approach is a parent-_____ approach and a therapist-____ approach.
    1. supported; centered
    2. centered; supported
    3. supported; directed
    4. advocated; centered