Floortime® ROADMAP

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What is Floortime® ? 

Floortime® or Developmental Individual-difference Relationship-based model (DIR)® developed by child psychiatrists Stanley Greenspan, M.D. and Serena Wieder, PhD provides a comprehensive, individualized approach to assess, understand, and treat children who have developmental delays (including ASD). Floortime® is actually a strategy within the DIR model that encourages parents/professionals to play with the child. The goal is to improve cognition, language, and social and emotional skills are learned through relationships that involve emotionally meaningful exchanges. By focusing on emotional development, DIR touches on speech, motor or cognitive skills in isolation. Floortime® is an evidence-based intervention. 

 

This therapy aims at 6 developmental milestones:

• ​Self-regulation and interest in the world 

• Intimacy, or engagement in human relations 

• Two-way communication 

• Complex communication 

• Emotional ideas 

• Emotional thinking 

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The Greenspan Floortime Approach® is the latest version that is offered. 

Subscribe to a free newsletter: https://www.stanleygreenspan.com/resources/newsletter

For more information, go to https://www.stanleygreenspan.com.

Parents you can learn too, go to https://www.stanleygreenspan.com/floortime-parents

For professional training, go to https://www.stanleygreenspan.com/floortime-professionals.

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Recommended books:

Engaging Autism: Using the Floortime Approach to Help Children Relate, Communicate, and Think​

Floortime Strategies to Promote Development in Children and Teens: A User's Guide to the DIR® Model

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Local Providers:

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Bethlehem Pediatric Services

Where:  3012 Emrick Blvd. Bethlehem

Call: 610-625-4404

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Mentor Network

Where: 11 Jenna Dr., Broadheadsville

Call: 570-992-3613

​Where: Allentown location 7310 Tilghman St., Ste 100 & 104

Call: 610-398-2615

 

Play Therapy Heals

Where: 1754 W. Broad Street , Bethlehem PA 18018
Call: Moira Padfield, MS, LPC 610-703-2874
Website: http://www.playtherapyheals.com/play_therapy_2.html

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Talk School

Services: Soma®, DIR Floortime Therapy and Sensory Integration

Where: 6 Campus Boulevard, Newtown Square, PA 19073
Call: 610.356.5566

Website: https://www.talkinc.org/rapid-prompting-method