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:
How do we best prepare our multidisciplinary professionals in the field of autism?
Psychologist Gerry Costa is the founding director of the Center for Autism and Early Childhood Mental Health at Montclair State University and a professor in the Department of Teaching and Learning. He is the Board President of and Clinical Consultant to the...
My Biggest Revelations from being a Floortime Parent: Part 2
This week’s podcast is part two of a two-part review of my conference presentation for the Interdisciplinary Council on Development and Learning (ICDL) from last month. Retired special educator and DIR Expert Training Leader, Jackie Bartell, joined me to discuss my...
My Biggest Revelations from being a Floortime Parent: Part 1
Continuing on with the theme of parent support, this week's podcast is part one of a two-part review of my conference presentation for the Interdisciplinary Council on Development and Learning (ICDL) from this month. Retired special educator and DIR Expert Training...