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The Dir® Model and Intervention

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Beginning Floortime™ Part One: Fostering Early Stages of Engagement and Purposeful Communication
- Presenters: Lisa deFaria, MSW, LCSW, BCD, Clinical Social Worker, Scotts Valley and Monterey, CA and Rebecca Shahmoon Shanok, LCSW, Ph.D., Director, Institute for Infants, Children and Families, Jewish Board of Family and Children’s Services, NY, NY
Individual Differences in the Application of Language Intervention Strategies: When To Do What With Whom
- Presenters: Sima Gerber, Ph.D., Professor of Communication Disorders, Queens College, CUNY, and Michele Ricamato, M.A., CCC/SLP, Speech Language Pathologist, Chicago, IL
Understanding Aggression from a DIR® Perspective (Note, this Seminar is 3 hours long and will continue after the break.)
- Presenters: Stephanie Pass, Ph.D., Psychologist, San Francisco, CA, Diane Selinger, Ph.D., Psychology, Glenview, IL, and Ira Glovinsky, Ph.D., Clinical Psychologist, Ann Arbor, MI

Beginning Floortime™ Part Two: The Heart of DIR® and Floortime™; Child, Parent and Relationship Development
- Presenters: Rebecca Shahmoon Shanok, LCSW, Ph.D Director, Institute for Infants, Children and Families, Jewish Board of Family and Children’s Services, NY, NY and Lisa deFaria, MSW, LCSW, BCD, Clinical Social Worker, Scotts Valley and Monterey, CA
Bench to Trench: Research Support for the DIR® Model
- Presenter: Josh Feder, M.D., Child and Family Psychiatrist, Solana Beach, CA
Integración Escolar y Problemas de Comportamiento. Aplicando el modelo DIR/Floortime en aulas escolares con niños de habla hispana
- Presenters: Cecilia Breinbauer, M.D., MPH, Child Psychiatrist and Managing Director, ICDL Graduate School and Milagros Cordero, Ed.D., OTR/L, Executive Director, ITT’s for Children, Atlanta, GA

Can You Outgrow the PDD Diagnosis?
- Presenters: Gerry Costa, Ph.D., Director, YCS Institute for Infant and Preschool Mental Health, East Orange, NJ and Molly Romer Witten, Ph.D., Clinical Psychologist, Chicago, IL
DIR®/Floortime™ All Day Long
- Presenters: Milagros Cordero, Ed.D., OTR/L, Executive Director, ITT’s for Children, Atlanta, GA and Griff Doyle, Ph.D., Clinical Psychologist, Bethesda, MD
Social and Interactive Groups
- Presenters: Tim Bleecker and Jake Greenspan, Co-Directors, DIR Support Services, Bethesda, MD

Picture Books and Floortime
- Presenters: Stephanie Pass, Ph.D., Psychologist, San Francisco, CA and Rebecca Shahmoon Shanok, LCSW, Ph.D., Director, Institute for Infants, Children and Families, Jewish Board of Family and Children’s Services, NY, NY
The Play Project
- Presenter: Richard Solomon, M.D., Medical Director, Ann
  Arbor Center for Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, Ann Arbor, MI
Sensory Motor and Regulatory Treatment
- Presenters: Milagros Cordero, Ed.D., OTR/L, Executive Director, ITT’s for Children, Atlanta, GA

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