DIR 203: The DIRFloortime® Advanced Certificate Course

Description

This is a practicum course that helps participants develop competencies to coach another adult (e.g. caregiver, teacher) on how to interact with a child or adults with special needs, following the Floortime principles, promoting basic functional emotional developmental capacities. At this advanced level course, participants will be integrating what they learned in the two previous courses, by showing video examples of themselves coaching others. Participants are evaluated on case presentations, class participation, and written responses to forum questions. Students must present two cases using video recordings during the course. We ask that participants be prepared to present two different cases, but sometimes trainers will prefer or allow participants to present the same case twice. If you only have one case to present, please e-mail us at [email protected] to confirm this will be acceptable (it usually is OK, but depends on the case being presented as well). The case presentations in this course must have at least one case that is different than those presented in DIR 201 and DIR 202. Students in online courses must have a device that has a camera and microphone to fully engage in the course. ICDL provides the software. This course is an assessment-based course that assesses each students DIRFloortime competencies. Successful completion leads to a DIRFloortime^® Advanced Certificate (DIR-Advanced) and a listing on the ICDL registry and listing online.

Details

Assessment: Participants are evaluated on case presentations, class participation, and written responses to forum questions.

AOTA CEU’s provided through ICDL with reciprocity in South Africa

Provider Name: ICDL (www.icdl.com)

Register here: https://fs30.formsite.com/ICDL/2021T2203MLMV/index.html?1611956929437

Speakers: Maude Le Roux and Millicent Viljoen

Special Needs Accommodation: Please contact [email protected]

Cancellation policy: Contact [email protected]

Additional Information

Target Audience: Occupational Therapists, Speech Language Pathologists, Physical Therapists, Educators, Psychologists, Medical Practitioners, Social Workers

Pre-Requisites: Must have completed DIR201 and DIR202 Workshop

Number of Participants: 12

Instructional Methods: PowerPoint, Video, Group Discussion, Case Studies

Fee: see www.icdl.com

Outline / Agenda

Learning Objectives:

• Demonstrate the ability to describe all of their own functional emotional developmental capacities, interactive styles and coping tendencies under stress.
• Demonstrate the ability to identify at least three of their own strengths in their understanding and application of the DIR® Model and Floortime Intervention.
• Demonstrate the ability to identify at least three of their own areas that require further development in their understanding and application of the DIR® Model and Floortime™ Intervention.
• Apply at least ten in-depth, discipline specific concepts learned in DIR® 201 and DIR® 202, analyzing how individual differences of children or adults can interfere or help promote the mastering of the 9 functional emotional developmental capacities.
• Demonstrate the ability to summarize the child and adult’s unique profile based on all his or her 9 functional emotional developmental capacities and individual differences.
• Demonstrate the ability to assess their own interactive and “goodness of fit” styles that can better support development, based on different caregiver and children’s individual profiles and family cultural differences
• Demonstrate the ability to explain how other interventions that the family might choose could be integrated, when beneficial to the child, into the home and school program using the DIR® model and DIRFloortime® principles as the guiding developmental framework.
• Demonstrate the ability to cite at least 10 studies supporting the DIR® model and Floortime intervention.