The DIR-Floortime Approach

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Has anyone attended the workshops with this consultancy?

www.mindbuilders-consulting.org/Training_consultancy_and_workshops.html

Looks a bit refrigerator mothers revisited to me.

Eg

I have seen her profile Meir

The whole idea of 'learning to play with your kid' doesn't make sense to me either. That is why I asked if someone has done and trainings at all

I quite like DIR Floortime. I don't think they do it there though. Looks like a whole lot of mumbo jumbo.

Proper DIRFloortime Bit like unofficial ABA without data?

Yep. A bit montissoriy/haneny. You play games and engage the child then start to make demands of them that they don't notice coz they is having fun. Stuff like deliberately leaving lid on yoghurt pot and forgetting to give them a spoon, so they'll work at communication or self-help skills, all the while making stuff fun.

Lack of data and designed programme waters down the effectiveness but it is still much more successful than the usual rubbish you so often get from LAs. It builds motivation for interaction.

But that website gives me no hope for any of that. They all seem qualified in a range of random stuff that includes quite a bit of 'feeling therapy' stuff and 'blame the mother' stuff.

I do wonder about the childhood relationships of those who tend to blame ASD mothers... It's a bit odd to jump to such a conclusion. Do you think they felt adequately nurtured themselves ?

Thanks for your views.

Our play based VB program is very similar except we have data