This week’s VIDEO presents highlights from the full BLOG post, Stumbling blocks in Floortime at FEDC 4: Helpful strategies for long chains of back-and-forth emotional signalling and shared problem-solving. The purpose of the VIDEO blog series is to review the key concepts of DIR/Floortime® in a more digestible format for parents and those new to the DIR® model. To view the VIDEO or full BLOG post, please click on the respective green button above. There you can find the Key Take-Aways PDF as well.
Does this video help you better understand how to sustain the emotional interactions with your child once (s)he is sharing attention and regulated, engaging and relating, and interacting with you? Do you have an example of how any of these strategies have worked for you or do you have other strategies? If so, please share them with us below in the Comments section. Also, if you found this helpful, please share this post by clicking on the Facebook or Twitter buttons below.
Until next week… here’s to affecting autism!
What a wonderful blog today, I enjoyed it.
My son has newly arrived at level four (Hooray) but I’m struggling to come up with activities and ideas to help him play, do you have any suggestions?
Many thanks
Bekah
Thank you for your question, Rebekah! I think you will really find this week’s podcast enlightening (with Gene Christian 2019-02-25 “From Dysregulation to Intent”) but here are a few tips as well: You want to introduce “little” problems into the play, that will entice your child into those long chains of problem-solving interactions. Start small and grow problems to grow the interactions. Waiting, watching and wondering is good too. Problems could be things like putting dinner on the table but forgetting to put the food into the bowl, or bath time with no water, and so on. The problems could… Read more »