DIRFloortime®
What is DIRFloortime®?
DIRFloortime® is an evidence-based approach that supports individuals with neurodevelopmental differences. It is used to help children with a range of emotional, sensory, motor, and developmental challenges. DIRFloortime® harnesses the power of relationships to strengthen capacities for regulating, engaging, and communicating.
D = Developmental Capacities
I = Individual Differences
R = Relationship
Floortime = getting down on the floor (or wherever your child may be!) to join in your child’s interests and expand their developmental skills
What are developmental capacities?
These capacities form the foundation for our learning and development as well as our sense of self. We all move up and down this ladder from moment to moment and day to day. Defining Development supports your child in reaching higher developmental skills.
Logical Thinking
Creating Emotional Ideas
Shared Social Problem Solving
Two-Way Communication
Engaging and Relating
Regulation and Shared Attention
What makes the DIRFloortime® approach different?
Uses a child-directed model with scaffolding of skills based on a developmental foundation
Understands and respects your child’s sensory differences
Harnesses your child’s individualized interests through play
Focuses on building relationships through attuned interactions
Incorporates parent coaching to empower you as the most important agent of change for your child
With her DIRFloortime® Advanced Certificate, Larissa helps neurodivergent children to build their cognitive, emotional, social, language, and motor skills through playful and affectively driven interactions. Parent coaching is crucial to her work, supporting caregivers to better understand their child’s developmental progression.