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  • Early Intervention Services
    • Assessment of functional developmental levels and individual differences of children in the autism spectrum
    • Develop an individual treatment program
    • Provide direct Floor-time therapy
    • Develop a home or school based program
    • Work together with home and school programs, therapists, community services, and other professionals in a team approach
    • Train and coach parents, professionals, and helpers
    • Assist families in coping with the emotional stress related to raising a child with special needs
  • Assessment
  • Comprehensive treatment plan development
  • Parent coaching in floor time
  • Direct treatment of child
  • School Consultation
  • Peer and sibling facilitation of play
  • Experiential social groups focused on relationship building
  • Coordination and training of multidisciplinary treatment teams

The D.I.R.™ and Floor-Time Model of therapy was developed by Dr. Stanley Greenspan.

What is the D.I.R.™ model of therapy?

D
Developmental
I
Individual differences
R
Relationship based

The D.I.R.™ is an all inclusive intervention to help children in the autism spectrum progress through their function emotional developmental levels. It is necessary to determine their individual differences in sensory processing, modulation, muscle tone, and motor planning and sequencing that can inhibit their ability to learn and cope in the world. Relationships and affect are the building blocks necessary for social and emotional development, intelligence, and morality. Using the D.I.R.™ Model helps the child return to the earliest milestones that have been missed, and begins the process again.

What is FLOOR-TIME?

Floor-time is a play intervention that is fun, where the parents and professionals have the role of moving the child through the developmental milestones, specific to each child’s needs, in activities that the child chooses. This process enables the child to learn and grow naturally, in a comfortable, happy, and playful environment.

5/22/03

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