The biggest challenge I face is in dealing with my child’s behaviors. I think he needs a lot of structure and behavioral management work…is this something that a DIR/Floortime program provides?

Yes, the DIR/Floortime approach includes many different components, both structured and unstructured.  Floortime, which involves following the child’s lead, is only one component. There are also a number of semi-structured, problem-solving components that involve developing language, cognition, and sensory processing capacities (e.g., motor, visual-spatial, etc.) as well as regulating behavior, mood and attention. Overall, and long term, what helps children create the internal structure they need for success in school, family activities and life in general is mastery of their fundamental capacities for thinking, problem-solving and understanding the needs of others.  Developing these internal capacities are the main goals of the DIR/Floortime approach.