Alaa’s Reviews > Floortime Strategies to Promote Development in Children and Teens: A User's Guide to the DIR® Model > Status Update

"When u describe what u c children or teens trying to do, it helps them feel noticed, accepted, and cared for.This enhances self-esteem, but it also clarifies their intentions & raises their self-awareness. Increasing self-awareness of their actions & intentions contribute to the development of purposefulness, or more thoughtful intentionality "

"Turn every action into an interaction"

"Developmental play therapy, or floor time does not work on lengthening attention span by force or insistence. Rather, Adults join in the natural motivations and interests of children and teens to gradually expand their ability to attend longer to an increasing variety of activities and tasks."

"When you take an inquiry approach to young people's upsets, you help them approach upsets in a similar problem-solving way. They become able to reflect on their needs, and they learn to choose from several possible strategies."

"Floortime sessions are designed to help you make use of your child's or teen's sensory processing profile as well as practice expanding language, motor, visual, sensory processing, and cognitive capacities."