After months of contemplating the purchase of this book, I finally decided that it was time to learn Dr Greenspan's Floortime Therapy. I like the concept, because its not at rigid as doing ABA. Plus when Micah was doing ABA, he did not pay much attention to the drills that his therapists did. Plus I can use this approach for Piper and Micah at home!
If you do not know what Floortime is, basically, it's a play based therapy that parents can use at home with their children. This not only engages us, the parents in our child's world, but we can teach them important skills that are needed to do day to day tasks. Bringing play into the picture is a great way to help the child, but I needed to learn what little things I needed to add into my play session with Micah and Piper so they can learn new skills.
This led me to purchase Engaging Autism: Helping Children Relate, Communicate and Think with the DIR Floortime Approach by Dr Greenspan from Amazon. This will become my basic learning tool to help better teach my children new skills that they were not receptive to before. So I am pretty excited in using these new techniques, so the kids will be ready when they begin school respectively. I will keep everyone updated when I get the book in the mail about how they do with the combination of my new methods of treatment.
For Alexis, I finally purchased Why Can't My Child Behave?: Why Can't She Cope? Why Can't He Learn? by Jane Hershey, the current president of the Feingold Association. I did not think about getting this book, when I ordered the materials needed to implement the Feingold Diet. This is going to explain a lot to me in regards to her behaviors. So over the next few weeks, I will be reading these intensively to better understand things. I will also update on Alexis's improvements and how Micah and Piper improve their behaviors. Anywho I'm out!
*Disclaimer- I am not an affiliate of Amazon, Dr Greenspan, nor the Feingold Association. I am not a Medical professional and these programs do not work with everyone. This blog is written by a parent who is trying to help her children overcome Autism and ADHD. *
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