Floor Time Education Info for Children with Autism

Floor Time Education Info for Children with Autism – The Autism Exchange

Introduction

The Floortime approach focuses on building children's emotional development though social interactions. FT challenges your child to be creative and spontaneous by having you get down on the floor and enter their world through interactive play. The creator, Dr. Stanley Greenspan, believes that this process will help develop all areas of learning by building on your child's strengths and interests in a fun and inviting way. FT is a warm creative way to build emotional connections and closer relationships.

Related Sites

Greenspan Floortime Approach
Description: At this site, you can sign up for courses designed by Dr. Stanley Greenspan to learn more about Floortime. You will be able to watch videos of Floortime in action and read current articles about the Floortime Approach.

How To Use Floortime
Description: This is a FloorTime Fact sheet that breaks down FloorTime into easy to read sections.

Books

Engaging Autism: Using the Floortime Approach to Help Children Relate, Communicate, and Think by Stanley I. Greenspan
Description: Developed by Stanley Greenspan, this book highlights his Floortime teaching approach which can be utilized very early in infancy. This book does not focus on changing behaviors, rather it showcases stepping stones for attaining emotional, social, and behavioral progression.

Engaging Autism: Helping Children Relate, Communicate and Think with the DIR Floortime Approach (A Merloyd Lawrence Book) by Stanley I. Greenspan
Description: Designed for parents, caregivers, teachers and therapists who work with special needs children, this book promotes the author’s highly recognized Floortime teaching approach. With this technique, a child can begin at a very young age for intervention. In addition, the entire family can become involved with this process.

Tools

DIR Floortime Short Introduction
Description: Dr. Stanley Greenspan gives a 6 minute introduction to FloorTime in his own words.

The Greenspan Floortime Approach Site
Description: This YouTube video shows Dr. Stanley Greenspan guiding a family through the FloorTime Approach.

Parent Forums/Blogs

Some forums require you to sign in to Yahoo or Facebook to locate forum names.

Forum/Blog Name: Floortime Repository
Description: For parents and professionals using Floortime.

Forum/Blog Name: Floortimers
Description: A forum where individuals using a Floortime approach can share ideas and provide support for one another.

Consumer Corner

Child Therapy Toys
Description: A variety of floortime teaching items including toys for active play, building, manipulation, sensory, etc.

The Sensory University Toy Company
Description: This site provides several toys for autism which can be utilized for floortime activities

Community Library

Floortime and Pivotal Response Training
Description: Compares Floortime to ABA, as well as an intervention that combines important features of both: Pivotal Response Training.

DIR®/Floortime: Developmental, Individual Difference, Relationship-based
Description: Research and videos on the DIR/Floortime model.

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