Development Happens Through Relationships Across a Lifetime
Invite out and support your child's developmental potentialWe Advocate for the Developmental, Individual differences, Relationship-based (DIR®) Approach for Children with Developmental Differences
Developmental
This approach is developmental in nature, not behavioural. Children have challenges with traditional academics until they master their Functional Emotional Developmental Capacities.
Individual Differences
Each child has individual processing differences that vary greatly from child to child. These need to be looked at to inform our understanding of how our child interacts with us.
Relationship-based
With genuine affect, we create those warm & nurturing learning relationships that are tailored to a child’s individual differences and will help support the child moving ahead in their development.
Floortime
Floortime is joining in the child’s interests to bring the child into a shared world where we create systematic, playful challenges to help the child master each developmental capacity.
Latest Podcasts/Posts:
Art with Heart: An Open Studio Approach to DIR/Floortime
Thank you to the mother and daughter artist team from Italy who created the beautiful painting in today's blog post photo which reads, "All is good. All will be good."This week we have two guests to discuss DIR/Floortime and art. Donnie Welch is a teaching artist who...
Parent Support Groups
Bridget Palmer is an Expert Training Leader in the Developmental, Individual differences, Relationship-based (DIR) Model and speech and language therapist in Buffalo, NY. She runs a DIR/Floortime parent support group called Floortime Families which was in person but...
Navigating our therapy teams and social circles
Developmental and clinical psychologist, Kathy Platzman from Floortime Atlanta, an expert on the Developmental, Individual differences, Relationship-based (DIR) model returns this week. Not only is Dr. Platzman an Expert DIR Training Leader, but she is the Director of...