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Dr. Josh Feder, Assistant Clinical Professor, UC San Diego School of Medicine
When we respect a child’s ideas, intentions and actions, and build on those with warm engagement, the child's development naturally unfolds, with increased capacities to relate, communicate and think adaptively in a complex and ever-changing world... Please go to the Conference Session Selection menu if you'd like to attend.
The Developmental, Individual Difference, Relationship-based DIR/Floortime model is a way of relating to a child in which we recognize and respect the emotional experience and expressions of the child, shown in their actions, ideas, and intentions, and interact in a way that helps the child use his or her natural emotions with an even greater sense of purpose, building the capacity to engage and communicate, and at increasingly complex levels of functional development.
Learning objectives
1. Participants will learn how to use a practical developmental framework for engaging people with autism, Asperger's, and related disorders in interactions that support improved function and social problem solving.
2. Participants will learn how to leverage a person's individual profile of integrated abilities (e.g., sensory, motor, communication, cognition) in supporting better social emotional growth and problem solving.
4. Participants will learn how to advocate for treatment using the large and growing body of research supporting developmental approaches as evidence based practices that produce immediate and lifetime cost savings compared to other approaches.
5. Participants will understand how DIR/Floortime and Social Thinking compliment each other and can work together in helping people with autism, Asperger's, and related disorders.
Presenter
Joshua D. Feder, MD, is a child and family psychiatrist specializing in the treatment of developmental and learning disorders. He is an assistant clinical professor in the Department of Psychiatry at University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine, is on the faculty of the Interdisciplinary Council on Developmental and Learning Disorders (ICDL), and was recently named a Distinguished Fellow in the American Psychiatric Association.
Click to read Dr. Feder's article:
DIR/Floortime: Becoming More Matthew by Joshua Feder, MD
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