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:
Good Autism Education is just Good Education
This week, Dr. Gil Tippy returns to talk about how Good Autism Education is just Good Education. His new book chapter will appear in the same upcoming book that we heard Dr. Gerry Costa...
Building Relationships in the Practice of Palliative Care using DIR/Floortime
This week we have a panel to discuss broadening the scope of DIR/Floortime to a larger audience. After attending the 2020 DIR/Floortime conference presentation entitled, Prospects for the...
The Heart of DIR/Floortime: The ‘R’ and Genuine Affect
This week I'm speaking with clinical psychologist, Dr. Amanda Kriegel from Floortime Atlanta and Morgan Weissman from the Rebecca School about their presentation at the recent DIR/Floortime...