The Interdisciplinary Council on Developmental and Learning Disorders (ICDL) is a non-profit organization founded by Stanley Greenspan, MD, and Serena Wieder, PhD.

• Vision:  To redefine and promote each child’s development to their fullest potential
• Mission: To engage in, develop, conduct, support, and disseminate programs, research, seminars, and publications on the prevention and treatment of emotional and development disorders in infancy and childhood
• Goals:
  • To integrate multi-disciplinary knowledge so as to improve prevention, assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of emotional and developmental disorders in infancy and childhood.
  • To implement prevention and intervention activities at the family, community, and policy level through a bio-psycho-social (DIR®/Floortime™) model of human development

ICDL reaches a wide network of parents and professionals in every state and in more than 80 countries on all continents. Through its research, training and publications, it advances the identification, prevention and treatment of developmental and learning disorders. Its nucleus of world-class professionals from multiple disciplines has incorporated the DIR/Floortime model as a fundamental component of intervention programs for individuals with difficulties in relating, communicating and thinking, including autism spectrum disorders. ICDL's research improves both the understanding of developmental pathways leading to developmental and emotional disorders and the interventions for these disorders.