Can someone PLEASE tell me the ABC of floortime - I read and read and my brain just doesn't see it... I don't see how I can make a "therapy" session out of it.. pleas ehelp bec on eof th etherapists is leaving and I have soem tiem where I want to ennage in floortime/RDI type of techniques... I just want to know what floortime means!
Also...unrelated topic : I leave my daughter in her crib after lunch so that she can take a nap.. sometiems she will stay in the crib for 2 hrs staright but not sleep!!!Like today - she is awake babbling to herself... Is this a waste of time??
Pls PM me with your email address. I have a tutorial to send you.
Edited to add that I found the tutorials in the "files" section of floortime yahoo group.
Daddy
You do not make a therapy session of it, and that IS the point.
You get down on the floor (or dow nto your child's level) and let your child lead the play.
You later begin to manipulate the play, cautiously, through playful obstruction, to force interaction. Even negative interaction such as avoidance or annoyance. Until ... voila, your child's repetitive or mechanical play has become INTERACTIVE.
HTH, and I am stil ltrying to figure out how to start out along the trail, with an already-interactive 6 year old!
Floortime is in my opinion the best thing since sliced bread :)I posted some of the floortime techniques earlier this month. If you want I can search for it. Usually, you just need to relax and follow your child's lead and then begin changing the way you relate. Stop asking so many questions or trying to lead (that's usually the biggest problem for me). You don't need to teach. Follow your child's lead even if that means joining in with her stims. Find ways to make her laugh and wait for her to respond with eye contact or verbalization. Then do it again and change it up. Sensory motor play is the best place to start. Bouncing, dancing, blowing bubbles, etc.
YES, Cindy -- the entire philosophy is to increase cognitive skills -- through relating and emotionally-meaningful communication. Greenspan believes that communication must have emotional content for the child, in order for the child to respond to it.
He goes into this lovely description of the 7 stages of emotional development in the young child ... T is like, at the 6th, gray-area thinking ... and I suspect but still need to look for the seventh, which is "triangulation."
Does floortime increase cognitive skills?