June 26th, 2017
Children diagnosed with
Autism and related disorders have challenges that impact self-regulation, communication,
social-emotional development, learning and the development of functional
skills. This presentation will introduce key principles of the DIR/Floortime
model that can help children become active learners though a better
understanding of how biologically based individual differences in
communication, motor planning, and sensory processing, impact the learning
process.
Floortime offers interactive
techniques that can be used to help children learn to attend and self regulate,
to become engaged and reciprocal in interactions with others, and to begin to
understand social problem solving. These
early functional emotional developmental capacities are necessary to engage in
active, adaptive learning.
This workshop
will demonstrate intervention principles and technique that can help teachers,
para-professionals, therapists, and parents prepare the child for learning and
address challenges such as avoidance, shut downs, and meltdowns. Participants will learn
how to interpret the child’s behavioral cues and to use developmentally
targeted interaction techniques to address the child’s functional challenges.
Course #8789
6 OPI Renewal Units will be available
