DIR 101 Learning Objectives

An Introduction to DIR® and DIRFloortime®

1. Identify at least three common features of autism and other challenges of relating and communicating.

2. Identify at least four key features of relationship-based approaches.

3. Describe all 6 Functional Emotional Developmental Capacities (FEDCs) in the DIR® model and potential challenges that children face at each capacity.

4. Describe at least three characteristics of how individual differences (the "I" in DIR®), including health, sensory processing, and regulatory challenges, can impact a child's development.

5. Identify at least three key principles and basic strategies of Floortime.

6. Describe at least three characteristics of relationship and family in the DIR® model.

7. Describe the essential role of affect as it is related to the D, the I, and the R.