Day One
The DIRTM Model:
An Integrated Concept of Development, Functioning, and Relationships
- Historic and Theoretical Background
Classification of Disorders of Relating and Communicating:
Differentiating Children: Three Essential Profiles
- Functional Emotional Capacities Profile
- Sensory Processing Profile
- Family Patterns
Addressing the Core Deficits:
Critical Elements of Effective Intervention
- Comprehensive Individualized Approaches
- Underlying Assumptions of Different Methods
- Choosing the Best Components for Each Child
- What Have We Learned From Research?
- Long Term Outcomes: 2004 DIRTM Follow Up Study
Finding Solutions: The Child’s and the Parents’
- How Children Cope with Their Disabilities
- Behavioral Challenges – Frustration -Dysregulation
Floor Time: The Process of Moving Development Forward
- Connecting Affect to Intent
- The Continuous Flow of Interactions
- Social Problem Solving
- Parents, Siblings and Caregivers on the “Floor”
- “Floor Time” in Everyday Life
- Working with Dyads and Small Groups
- Learning How to Coach Interactions
DIRTM /Floor Time in Early Intervention, Pre-School and Schools
- Special Education, Inclusion and Hybrid Programs
Integrating Floor Time Principles into Speech and Language Therapy,
Occupational Therapy and Other Interventions
Day Two
The Path to Higher Order Symbolic Thinking:
From Problem Solving to Reasoning to Abstraction
The Multiple Pathways to Symbolism
- The First Gift – Teddy Bears and Blankies
- Scripts and Songs, Gestures and Charades
- Toys are a Language
- Role Play and Drama
- When Toys and Scripts Become Ideas
Climbing the Symbolic Ladder
- Pretending and Reality Based ideas
- From Fragments to Sequences to Organized Ideas
- Representational Thinking and Sense of Self
- Pathways Along the Regulatory and Autism Spectrum
- Structural Deficits in Basic Developmental Levels
- Symbolic Problems and Symbolic Solutions
- What Would We Do Without Disney?
- The Challenge of “Good Guy – Bad Guy”
- The Hierarchy of Emotional Themes
The Impact of Sensory Processing Disorder on Symbolic Thinking
- Auditory and Verbal Processing
- Visual Spatial Processing
- Regulation, Reactivity, Defensiveness
- Motor Planning and Motor Execution
Anxiety and Episodic Reality Testing
- Sources of Typical and Derailing Anxiety
- Sirens to Panic - Sudden Unexpected Events
- From Tyrants to Heros
From Symbolic Thinking in Play, to Narrative and Academic Learning
- Making the Transition from Imaginative Play to Imaginative Writing
- Facts and Fiction: Challenges with Reading Comprehension
- Learning Differences – Dyslexia, Lost in Space, Executive Function
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