Module 3: Principles of Floortime and the role of the therapist
Click on the links below to access the course materials for this module
1) Watch recorded lecture
2) Review videos of Floortime in action:
a) Floortime as a human development model: understanding children's emotions (early video featuring Dr. Greenspan explaining children's first emotions and Floortime). Look at Dr. Greenspan interacting with a girl, using Floortime principles (starts around minute 8). While she is not autistic, Dr. Greenspan would use the same principles to interact with autistic children, adapting to the child's individual differences and functional emotional developmental capacities.
b) Video example and reading materials at Interacting with autism website describing Floortime
c) PLAY project - (1) home visit video example - (2) interview with mother describing her experience with Floortime
3) Complete exercise for module 3 - IMPORTANT: Please do this exercise as a GROUP (or individually if not possible) BEFORE the next online meeting (April 28th), and send via email the completed exercise to drbreinbauer@gmail.com . I plan to use these exercises to have a more interactive discussion during the online meeting or webinar, based on YOUR cases!
4) RECORDING OF ONLINE MEETING
Recommended explanations to further learn about Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD) and Autism from the SPD Foundation website.
1) Watch recorded lecture
2) Review videos of Floortime in action:
a) Floortime as a human development model: understanding children's emotions (early video featuring Dr. Greenspan explaining children's first emotions and Floortime). Look at Dr. Greenspan interacting with a girl, using Floortime principles (starts around minute 8). While she is not autistic, Dr. Greenspan would use the same principles to interact with autistic children, adapting to the child's individual differences and functional emotional developmental capacities.
b) Video example and reading materials at Interacting with autism website describing Floortime
c) PLAY project - (1) home visit video example - (2) interview with mother describing her experience with Floortime
3) Complete exercise for module 3 - IMPORTANT: Please do this exercise as a GROUP (or individually if not possible) BEFORE the next online meeting (April 28th), and send via email the completed exercise to drbreinbauer@gmail.com . I plan to use these exercises to have a more interactive discussion during the online meeting or webinar, based on YOUR cases!
4) RECORDING OF ONLINE MEETING
Recommended explanations to further learn about Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD) and Autism from the SPD Foundation website.
- SPD and Autism (and co-morbidity between SPD and ADHD)
- Sensory Processing Disorder subtypes: Sensory modulation, discrimination, and motor-based disorders. This page has an image that might help you understand the different terms frequently used associated with sensory integration.
- SPD symptom checklist: this checklist gives an example of how to associated observable behaviors with underlying sensory processing disorder, often present in autistic children and adults.