PARENT FLOORTIME TRAINING & COACHING
PARENT FLOORTIME TRAINING & COACHING
Every parent wants their child to be successful, in school and in life. In order to acheive that, therapists, doctors, and professionals of all types will push and pull you in different directions, based on what they think will help achieve those goals. The reality is that research over the last 60 years, have shown us that social-emotional skills and health are the most important tool set that every child should develop and master within the first five years of life.
Research at Duke and Penn St. over 12 to 18 years has shown that these social-emotional skills are the number one factor that lead to positive adult outcomes. In order for children to develop social-emotional health, and master these skills, they begin by experiencing and establishing these capacities with their caregivers.
Dr. Greenspan’s Floortime Approach uses simple techniques to be used in everyday situations to help children calm themselves, communicate more, think logically, and plan ahead. These techniques can also be used in 20-30 minute Greenspan Floortime sessions at home. Reseach using similar techniques found that autism can be prevented and it’s symptoms can be significaly reduced with parent training. Read the full article here.
Research in the UK using reflective parent training showed that after 6 months, children with ASD exhibited an almost 20% reduction in symptoms. The training involved helped parents read and respond to their child’s cues, gestures, and communication. Read the full article here.
The principles of Greenspan Floortime can help every child improve interactions using gestures, sounds, and words. These types of early interactions using, ‘parentese’, hvae been found to boost language development. Read the full article here.
HOW DO WE COACH?
Dr. Greenspan felt strongly that for parents and professionals to learn to apply floortime they needed to practice with the support and feedback from a Greenspan Floortime trained professional.
The Floortime Center® has been educating and coaching parents since 2004, and we have determined the most effective way to support parents of children with developmental difference is with a multipronged approach. Our Relate, Communicate, and Think parent training program has 3 main steps to be implemented weekly with each caregiver,
- Live in-person or virtual coaching in The Greenspan Floortime Approach® (30 minutes)
- Video submission with feedback of a caregiver doing a Greenspan Floortime™ at home (10-minute video submission within 48 hours of the live coaching)
- Practice Greenspan Floortime™ daily for 20-30 minutes with your child.
These parent training programs are scheduled in 4 and 8-week packages. Each weekly step 1 and 2 combo (live coaching and video submission with feedback) costs $225.
WHO DO WE COACH?
Parents, grandparents, siblings, other family members, and professionals working with the child.
Signup now for coaching sessions with Jake Greenspan or Tim Bleecker. Call 301-657-1130.
You can also signup up for one of our individualized Intensive programs for local and out of town families that include coaching and an individualized combination of therapies for your child.
We follow the very strict guidelines of The Greenspan Floortime Approach® that Stanley Greenspan MD trained us with outlined in his many books, radio shows, and conferences.
