Thursday, July 24, 2008

Floortime -- another therapy for autism/pdd!

Unlike Applied Behaviour Analysis, Floortime is a not a behavioural approach. The main difference in ABA and Floortime is in ABA the therapist controls everything and dictates the child's behaviour while in Floortime the therapist flows the child's lead and try to interact with him or her.

Click here for an introducotry program on Floortime on Youtube.
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=DIR%C2%A9%2FFloortime%E2%84%A2+Seminar+-+Italy&search_type=

Click here for Parent's Guide Book For Setting up a Program of Floor Time Volunteers
http://www.coping.org/intervention/fltmvols.htm

2 comments:

blueswarrior said...

have a bunch of videos showing sessions.

www.floortimerepository.com. My husband and I created this network to help. we have added a lot of information including conferences and workshops for DIR and Play Project.

autismmaldives said...

Dear Bluewarrior,

We are greatly pleased for sharing this information.