DIR101 – Play the Floortime Way!
When: July 19, 20, 2024, From 9am to 4pm JHB, South Africa Time Zone, though anyone is welcome!
Description
This online workshop will be an overview of the DIR/Floortime® model of the late Dr. Stanley Greenspan and certificates will be provided through ICDL (Interdisciplinary Council for Developmental and Learning Disorders) allowing you access to the ICDL directory and further training. The 6 developmental milestones will be covered in depth with video showcasing the different techniques to support the understanding as well as techniques used. Frequent opportunities for group discussion will be provided. Information on the importance of relationships will also be covered with support on how to mobilize students and children in achieving higher milestones. DIR/Floortime® is adaptive to any age of development, from early intervention through adolescence. Floortime® techniques will be show cased through case studies and video footage with open workshop discussion and participants will find these discussions to be at the intermediate clinical level. The workshop participant will leave the workshop feeling equipped to support their clients with new and fresh ideas on behavior, sensori-motor and emotional intervention.
Outline / Agenda:
Day 1:
8.30am Registration
9.00am DIR and Floortime introduction
10.30am Morning Break
11.00am Autism: diagnosis and individual profiles
12.30pm Lunch
1.30pm Scientific evidence supporting DIRFloortime
2.30pm The “D” in DIR
3.30pm Afternoon Break
3.45pm The “D” continued
5.00pm Adjourn
Day 2:
9.00am The “I” in DIR
10.30am Morning Break
11.00am The power of affect
12.30pm Lunch
1.30pm The “R”
2.30pm Play
3.30pm Afternoon Break
3.45pm Floortime Strategies
5.00pm Adjourn
Learning Objectives:
Students successfully completing this course will demonstrate the ability to:
- Identify at least three common features of autism and other challenges of relating and communicating.
- Identify at least four key features of relationship-based approaches.
- Describe all 6 Functional Emotional Developmental Capacities (FEDCs) in the DIR® model and potential challenges that children face at each capacity.
- 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.
- Identify at least three key principles and basic strategies of Floortime.
- Describe at least three characteristics of relationship and family in the DIR® model.
- Describe the essential role of affect as it is related to the D, the I, and the R.
Assessment: Completion of Feedback Form
The attendee will be registered through ICDL to be an approved provider and a portion of your fee will go towards the ICDL process.
Provider Name: ICDL
Presenter: Maude Le Roux, OTR/L, SIPT, DIR/Floortime® Expert Trainer
Bio: Maude is a globally known presenter on a variety of different topics and has visited us in Manilla before on two separate occasions. She hails from South Africa, graduated there in 1984, and opened her private practice in Glen Mills, USA in 2001. Maude obtained her DIR Certificate in 2005 and became an Expert training leader in 2011 for ICDL (Interdisciplinary Council of Developmental and Learning Disorders). She is a leading speaker at multiple international conferences over the years. She opened the Maude Le Roux Academy in January 2019 as her travel schedule disallowed her the pleasure of feeling “grounded” in her own home! Maude accomplished multiple certifications throughout the years and continues her journey of being a life-long learner. She co-authored the book, Our Greatest Allies, with Lauren O’Malley and hopes to find the time in the next 5 years to finish another book she has been laboring over. Her wish is for every therapist to come fully into their own being, be their authentic selves, so their clients can also transition from sometimes fragmented places to a new sense of wholeness.
Location: Online
Target Audience: Occupational Therapists, Speech Language Pathologists, Physical Therapists, Social Workers, Psychologists, Educators, Parents
Educational Level: Intermediary
Number of Participants: Unlimited
Instructional Methods: PowerPoint, Group Discussion, Video
Contact Hours: 12 hours
Fee: As per ICDL
Registration: TBD
