The Floortime Center

Flexibility- How Does It Develop?

When most adults think about flexibility for a child, they think about getting the child to do what they want them to do. When a child digs in and becomes resistant or defiant to have things their way, the adult sees the alternative as having the child do things the adult’s way. While listening to … Read more

Developmental Interventions

The Greenspan Floortime Approach®, Dr. Greenspan’s version of floortime, is considered the original developmental intervention. Created in the 1980s, one of his first books, “The Essential Partnership”, co-authored with his wife, Nancy Greenspan, he popularized the term floortime as a way of getting on the floor and connecting with your child at their level to … Read more

A Thinking-based Approach versus A Skill-based Approach

 In the field pediatric disorders, families are faced with choosing between many different types of interventions that all may sound appropriate and even have some evidence supporting them in the application of helping children with diagnoses like autism, social communication disorders, and other developmental delays. While each of the interventions parents are usually recommended do … Read more

The 3-Legged Stool of Greenspan Floortime™

When Dr. Greenspan created Floortime in the ’80s, now known as The Greenspan Floortime Approach®, he said that Floortime is an intervention that works on relating, communicating, and thinking. These three big-picture goals are the basis for everything one will do while partaking in a Floortime session. While his six primary developmental milestones from his … Read more