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Floor Time Therapy
Floortime (also known as DIRFloortime®) is an approach used to promote an individual's development through a respectful, playful, joyful, and engaging process. It uses the power of relationships and human connection to encourage the development of the capacities for self-regulation, engagement, communication, shared social problem solving, and creative, organized, and reflective thinking and reasoning. It is based on the DIR® model for human development. It is used worldwide by teachers, occupational therapists, speech therapists, mental health professionals, parents, and many others that are caring for individuals with developmental challenges or other related needs. It is an evidence-based approach to promoting human development that is used with individuals of all ages, especially children on the autism spectrum.
Why is Floortime Play needed?
• To encourage interaction and help the child form a sense of connection to others by increasing circles of communication.
• To develop mutual attention and engagement through the persistent and intensive pursuit of the child leading to more intentional communication through gestures and words, establishing the foundation for the development of such higher functions as symbolic play and representation-abstract thinking.
• To minimize defensive patterns that have developed secondary to various processing difficulties.
• Support child to accurately interpret adult attempts at gestural and verbal communication and minimize the need for children to avoid interaction.
• To observe and learn about the regulatory capacities and processing challenges each child experiences in order to find ways to both treat and interact with the child.
Lets connect to see if Floortime is a good fit for your family!
