(HS Tippy 058882 2022) Helping Autistic Clients Relate and Communicate through DIR/Floortime
Tracking # 20-943636
Course overview
Your autistic clients don't need you to extinguish their behaviors, instead they need your help with difficulties with relating and communicating. Watch autism expert and co-author, Gil Tippy, PsyD, as he guides you through the foundations and principles of a powerful yet tremendously cost-effective evidenced-based developmental model, DIR/Floortime. This effective intervention will help you understand your autistic clients' unique individual profile (sensory-motor, social-emotional-communication, language) and address the biological challenges that may be hindering developmental process. At the end of this 90-minute session, you'll be able to implement the basics of DIR/Floortime to address your clients' core deficits while strengthening their core capacities of relating, communicating, and thinking. This recording will follow the DIR/Floortime model, so it'll be engaging, joyful and effective!
Subject areas
This course counts toward the state boards and subject areas below.
Arizona Board of Occupational Therapy Examiners
Occupational Therapist
Occupational Therapy Assistant
Florida Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy and Mental Health Counseling
Certified Master Social Worker
Licensed Clinical Social Worker
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist
Licensed Mental Health Counselor
Florida Board of Nursing
Advanced Practice Registered Nurse
Licensed Practical Nurse
Registered Nurse
Florida Board of Occupational Therapy
Occupational Therapist
Occupational Therapy Assistant
Florida Board of Psychology
Limited License Psychologist
Psychologist
Florida Board of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology
Audiologist
Audiologist Assistant
Speech-Language Pathologist
Speech-Language Pathology Assistant
Ohio Counselor, Social Worker and Marriage and Family Therapist Board
Licensed Independent Marriage and Family Therapist
Licensed Independent Social Worker
Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor
Licensed Professional Counselor
Licensed Social Worker
Marriage and Family Therapist
Registered Social Worker Assistant
Disclosure statements
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Gilbert Tippy has an employment relationship with Dirty Hands Developmental Alliance. He receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Gilbert Tippy is the Chief Clinical Advisor to The DIR® Institute. He is a member of the American Psychological Association and the American Music Therapy Association Autism Society.