Whether you are a parent, therapist, teacher or caregiver, you play a part in a child's development. These are the things we find ourselves explaining most often.
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Many parents look for an alternative to approaches built around compliance and isolated skills. They want to understand their child, not just change their behavior. Here is what DIR/Floortime is, and what it is not.
Because a child who always says yes may never learn how to say, this does not feel safe. On the difference between a child who is regulated and a child who is surviving the day.
Individual therapy builds the foundation. But many of the skills children need in everyday life cannot fully develop one-on-one. What changes when peers enter the room.
What looks like a mess on the kitchen table is motor planning, sensory processing, working memory and frustration tolerance. A full OT breakdown, and how to grade it up or down.
A York University study, featured by the CBC, looked at what changes for autistic children receiving DIR/Floortime, and what shows up in the brain when a child's individual differences are respected.
A child's sense of self begins in infancy and gets more complex through every interaction. What it looks like at each stage, and what helps.
Play is not just fun. It is a critical driver of cognitive, social, emotional, physical and self-regulatory development. Five areas, with the research behind each.
The brain changes most readily at particular points in development. Knowing when, and what each window supports, shapes how we think about early intervention.
From copying a smile to repeating words, imitation is how children begin to understand others and build connection. What it signals, and how to support it.
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