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Free virtual Floortime consultations for parents. Learn about Floortime, parent coaching, developing a DIR® Home Program, and the Floortime Intensive program at ICDLs DIR® Institute.

Weekly free live online parent peer support sessions through Affect Autism.

For on the Floor video series with Dr. Gil Tippy.

DIR 101 courses live online for parents at only $49 USD.

Learn how to effectively promote your childs development and learning.

Virtual Floortime coaching through the DIR® Home Program.

DIR® Floortime Intensives at the DIR® International Institute in Livingston, NJ, USA.

Check out our partner website for parents: affectautism.com

Other workshops, conferences, and seminars.

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Professionals: Learn More

DIR 101: An Introduction to DIR® and DIRFloortime® courses.

DIRFloortime® Professional Certificate courses

Courses available LIVE ONLINE!

Functional Emotional Assessment Scale (FEAS) administration courses.

Host a DIR® Course in Your Center, School, or Community.

Professional continuing education for Occupational Therapists, Speech Therapists, Counselors, Early Intervention Specialists, Physical Therapists, Educators, Music Therapists, Art Therapists, Psychologists, Social Workers, and others supporting children with developmental and emotional challenges.

DIR® accreditation.

Individual and organizational mentoring services by top DIR experts in the DIR® Institute.

Many other professional continuing education courses.

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ICDL has the original and official DIR® and DIRFloortime® (AKA Floortime®) training program. Beginning with the DIR 101: An Introduction to DIR® and DIRFloortime® all the way through our DIRFloortime® Expert Training Leader course, we offer DIRFloortime® courses throughout the world and live online. The faculty is amazing and the courses are incredible. All courses are open to professionals and the DIR 101 and select other course options are available to professionals and parents. In addition to the DIRFloortime® courses, ICDL also offers an array of DIR-related continuing education short courses for professionals.

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The International DIR® Institute is a unique teaching institute that brings together top DIR experts from around the world to provide services and supports to parents and professionals. One service for parents is the DIR® Home Program which is a virtual Floortime coaching program to help parents implement Floortime at home. Our experts can help parents help their children by using a respectful, joyful, and EFFECTIVE home program. Families can also attend Floortime Intensives at the ICDL DIR® Institute in Livingston, NJ, USA where families come for week-long intensive programs with their children and receive Floortime coaching from top experts from ICDL. For professionals and organizations, the DIR® Institute manages DIR® Accreditation and provides both individual DIRFloortime® mentoring for professionals and organizational DIRFloortime® mentoring and coaching services.

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D.I.R. Floortime (also known as Floortime) is an intervention that is used to promote an individuals development through a respectful, playful, joyful, and engaging process. It uses the power of relationships and human connections to promote engagement, communication, positive behaviors, and thinking. It is based on the DIR® model that was developed by Dr. Stanley Greenspan and his colleagues. It is used around the world by teachers, occupational therapists, speech therapists, mental health professionals, parents, and many others that care for individuals with developmental challenges or other related needs. It is an evidence-based approach to promoting human development that is used with children, young adults, and even adults...especially those on the autism spectrum.

Go to our page for Parents and check out the resources. Among many of the services available to parents, we offer free online support sessions for parents led by the founder of Affect Autism. Dont miss out on seeing the Affect Autism website. Affect Autism is our parent peer support and education partnering website to provide many great resources from parents by parents.

Discovering DIR Floortime was a confirmation of my natural instinct. To experience and nurture my angel naturally allowed him to shine. -Parent, proud mother of two angels

I, for the first time, feel empowered as a parent to continue to support my sons developmental growth! - Parent, Participant in an introduction to DIR Floortime® course

We just feel so supported by everyone there [at the therapy center]. We’re exactly where we need to be. It’s been better and more than we imagined and hoped. -Parents and recent clients at The DIR® Institute completing a Floortime intensive program with their children

Did you like Amythests What is Autism video? Go to our Advocacy page to see her What is ABA? video...it is so important to hear the perspectives of those on the spectrum. Also, you can visit our About Autism page for more information too.

ICDL offers the original and official DIR® and DIRFloortime® certificate courses. Dont get misled by others. DIR, DIRFloortime, and Floortime are trademarks of ICDL, Inc. in the United States and/or internationally. ICDL has an approved network of trainers and training centers around the world. Make sure your course is approved by ICDL and meets our quality, fidelity, and curriculum standards. Questions? Just e-mail us at info@icdl.com or call us at 301-304-8834.

DIR is an initialism form of an acronym meaning that each letter is stated rather than pronouncing it as a word. So, DIR is pronounced D I R. ICDL is the same way and each letter is stated rather than pronouncing it as a single word.

With DIRFloortime® professionals in over 50 countries around the world, you can search the DIRectory for professionals from just about anywhere. Search for DIR® professionals, review their listing, and contact them all from one place.

Stanley Greenspan was the founding president of the Interdisciplinary Council on Development and Learning and founding president of Zero to Three: The National Center for Infants, Toddlers and Families. He was Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics at George Washington University Medical School. As a foremost authority on clinical work with infants and young children, Dr. Greenspan was a recipient of many national and international awards including the American Psychiatric Associations highest award for child psychiatry research. He was also the author or editor of over forty books which have been translated into over a dozen languages.

We are lucky to have hundreds of web radio podcasts that Dr. Greenspan led. In these podcasts, you get to hear straight from Dr. Greenspan. It is a unique and wonderful opportunity.

Listen to Dr. Greenspan