Benefits Of Floortime Therapy For Autistic Children And For Children On The Spectrum
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Floortime Therapy is an autisitic therapy that involves adults helping children to improve their circles of communication by interacting with them at their developmental level and working on their strengths. This presentation discusses about Floortime therapy and its effectiveness on children with ASD. Browse more information at http://www.rebeccaschool.org/
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Benefits Of Floortime Therapy For Autistic Children And For Children On The Spectrum
- 1. Benefits Of Floortime Therapy For Autistic Children And For Children OnThe Spectrum
- 2. What Is FloortimeTherapy Floortime Therapy is a holistic practice involving parents, and therapists to engage children on the spectrum and to follow their lead to connect with them at their developmental level. It is a component of the DIR Model- a framework developed by Dr. Stanley Greenspan which can identify all functional, emotional and developmental capacities; these capacities constitute the foundation of lifelong learning and relating.
- 3. Benefits of FloortimeTherapy • Builds FlexibleThinking Skills It helps to build flexible thinking skills which are necessary to promote better learning and social behaviors. With flexible thinking capabilities, children with autism are able to find solutions for problems they might face in their lives later.
- 4. Benefits of FloortimeTherapy • Development of Cognitive Skills Children on the autism spectrum can benefit from Floortime Therapy as it augments their imaginative skills through symbolic play. Parents and therapists can work their way together towards better cognitive capabilities through simple activities with their kids by following their lead.
- 5. Benefits of FloortimeTherapy • Development of Social Skills Through fun games and activities, kids can be engaged and taught the virtue of sharing through taking turns. They can also be directed towards being more open. As their communication skills are enhanced progressively through Floortime therapy, they get the urge to be more social.
- 6. Benefits of FloortimeTherapy • Development of Gross Motor Skills Floortime Therapy involves active physical engagement of kids on the spectrum which contribute towards the development of gross motor skills in them. Coordination between different body parts like hands and legs is enhanced as they demonstrate their ideas and needs through gestures, actions or words.
- 7. Benefits of FloortimeTherapy • Development of Fine Motor Skills Fine motor skills are enhanced too along with gross motor skills as kids communicate with their family members at home and their peers at school using smaller or finer movements of their body parts like eyes, fingers, wrists, toes and feet.
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