Imagine a child getting dressed in the morning. Before a single button is fastened, the brain must perform an extraordinary series of tasks: remember what comes first, plan each step, sequence the actions in the right order, and adjust when something doesn’t go as expected. This invisible mental choreography is called executive functioning — and … Read more
When Dr. Greenspan created Floortime back in the 1980s, he first presented it in his book, “The Essential Partnership”, which he co-wrote with his wife, Nancy Greenspan. In this book, he first used the term floortime to refer to the process for all parents, encouraging them to get on the floor to spend time with … Read more
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
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
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
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
