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What is DIRFloortime™?

How does your child develop the miraculous abilities to love, think, communicate, and create, as well as to have self-control and feel compassion for others?

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Our Vision, imagine it - A community in which DIRFloortime™ is easily available for parents. What might we see?

A pediatrician walks concerned parents through Greenspan's Social Emotional Growth Questionnaire. She refers the parents to a neurologist, psychologist or other specialist trained to evaluate a child at his best, seeking to understand the child's individual strengths as well as weaknesses. She provides a directory of DIRFloortime resources or an Early Intervention Center where DIRFloortime™ services are available. Later, the child is enrolled in a preschool or elementary classroom staffed with teachers who are trained in this Developmental- Individual differences-Relationship based model (DIR®). Read more Now imagine not just one community embracing this social-emotional and developmental model to serving special needs children, but communities all over the country and the world. Imagine, too, the benefits to all children in communities like this- -because as Brazelton and Greenspan assert, the irreducible needs of children are the needs of all children!

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NEW EVIDENCE FOR THE DIRFLOORTIME MODEL

We are pleased to share with you three new studies that bring more evidence of how effectively, and culturally appropriate, the DIRFloortime can help children and families around the world:

To read more about research supporting the DIRFloortime model, click here

 

ICDL STRATEGIC PLAN

As the founder of ICDL, Dr. Greenspan left us with a strategic plan for the next years. ICDL has begun to implement the strategic areas of research, advocacy, as well as to improve and expand DIR/Floortime training.

Research: New Opportunities

The new Research Department of the ICDL Graduate School, lead by Dr. Josh Feder, is training more than 70 clinicians and educators who are taking advanced research courses and are starting to write publishable papers. The ICDL Graduate School is also creating an Institutional Review Board (IRB), chaired by Devin Casenhiser, Ph.D., that will oversee all research conducted by ICDL, ensuring the safety and welfare of research participants, and enforce standards of ethical conduct on the part of the researchers. In addition, the ICDL Graduate School will collaborate with the Child Study Lab at the Emory-Georgia Tech Health Systems Institute (HSI) to develop computational methods for analyzing children's behaviors during play interactions, using items of the Functional Emotional assessment Scale (FEAS). Dr. Barbara Dunbar, based in Atlanta, will coordinate this effort. Lastly, the Research Department started monthly research journal clubs for DIR/Floortime clinicians and educators who want to stay updated on the most important and recent research articles in the field of Infant Mental Health and Developmental Disorders. To read more about research & DIR/Floortime, click here.

Advocacy: Collective Leadership

DIRFloortime parents, clinicians and educators have been strengthening local networks, and organizing dissemination events that seek to increase awareness about parental choice for Autism treatment. The Floortime Coalition of California organized its first annual Family Fun Day, which was attended by more than 400 families. The Coalition is now planning a DIRFloortime conference in California, to be held on October 15, 2011. For more information about this conference click here

     

A group of concerned parents and professionals across the State of Texas are advocating in favor of Bill HB1744 that will expand the current requirements under Texas law to cover other proven treatments, including DIR/Floortime. This Bill was introduced in March of this year and reported favorably on April 21, 2011.

Training: Expanding Horizons

We are very pleased to announce the new members of the ICDL Graduate School Board of Trustees: Jose Cordero, MD, MPH, Diane Cullinane, MD, Georgia DeGangi, Ph.D., Barbara Dunbar, Ph.D., and Emily Vargas Baron, Ph.D. We are very grateful to these highly recognized professionals for joining the Board of Trustees and working with us to move the ICDL Graduate School to the next level, pursuing to become an accredited degree granting institution. To apply to the ICDL Graduate school, click here.

Professionals interested in learning the DIR/Floortime model can take an introductory course given by DIRFloortime Training Leaders in different states and countries. Introductory courses are pre-requisite to apply to the DIRB (Beginners) program. ICDL will explore offering an online DIRB program, complemented with training given by local training leaders. If interested in this opportunity, please send an e-mail to dirfloortimetraining@icdl.com

 

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ICDL Graduate School: PhD, Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Disorders

 

The ICDL Graduate School has almost 100 doctoral students and we are accepting application for the September 2012 class

This post graduate program offers an innovative educational opportunity to earn a PH.D. in the growing field of Infant Mental Health through a distance learning format.

DIR/Floortime Certificate

  For more information, click here                          Congratulations to the 2011 DIRFloortime Certificate Graduates!
                                                                              Southern California Regional Training, February 24-26, 2012.
                           

Start the Year Campaign

With the growth and development of the organization and the model, we face new and inevitable financial and organizational needs; and we humbly ask for your support in our end of the year campaign. We plan to increase the number of regional & online training opportunities, and continue our research and advocacy. Please consider supporting ICDL’s vital initiatives through an online tax-deductible contribution, or by shopping through one of the links below: