DIR®/Floortime™ San Diego Tutoring 2009 -2010 Reading Guide
Recommended Texts–
1. Diagnostic Manual for Infancy and Early Childhood - ICDL-DMIC (2005); published by ICDL. ISBN-10: 0976775808 2. Greenspan, S, and Wieder, S. Engaging Autism. Da Capo Press (2006).
Reading Assignments and guide: Notes – 1. Book selection: The DMIC is the current diagnostic manual used by ICDL in the DIR® model, and candidates for certification need to be familiar and conversant in its contents. Engaging Autism provides a highly readable and current summary of the DIR®/Floortime™ model and will serve as the main text for this Institute for the 20092010 academic year. While this book was chosen for its readability and clarity, we wish to emphasize that the DIR®/Floortime™ model emerged from the fields of Infant Mental Health, Child Development, and related fields, and as the model developed it became clear that it was extremely relevant and applicable in the treatment and intervention for persons with autism and autism spectrum disorders. So, while one text for the year has an added focus on autism, this is not to imply that the model is limited to autism. In fact, the DIR®/Floortime™ model is a useful model for treatment and intervention for persons of all ages throughout the wide spectrum of developmental and learning disorders, and beyond that to the broader population as well. 2. Students are strongly encouraged to read the assigned texts, as these follow and support the content of the lectures.
Reading for September 2009 (reading time est. 6 hours): 1. DMIC: Axis II Functional Emotional Developmental Capacities 2. DMIC Axis I, 300. Neurodevelopmental Disorders of Relating and Communicating levels (“NDRC’ learn these too!) 3. Engaging Autism: Introduction pp ix-xiv. 4. Engaging Autism Part I Improving the Prognosis of ASD pp3-53. Focus particularly on knowing the D – the I and the R represent, the nine levels of the
Functional Emotional Developmental Levels, and the philosophy of DIR®. 5. Engaging Autism Ch 19 Assessment pp 241-249 6. Engaging Autism Appendix B How Autism Develops – The DIR Theory pp 395408. Pay attention to the DIR theory about the core deficit in autism.
Reading for October 2009 (reading time est. 5 hours): 1. Engaging Autism Chapter 5, Family First pp 57-64, focus on the stages of the FEDL. 2. Engaging Autism Part III Floortime Ch. 13-16, pp. 163-211; focus on the principles of Floortime 3. Engaging Autism Ch 20-21 Comprehensive Intervention and Educational Approaches pp 251 – 297. Focus on the roles of different disciplines in DIR® and on the use of DIR®/Floortime™ within your own discipline. 4. Eggbeer, et al, Reflective Supervision: Past, Present, and Future 5. Weigand, Reflective Supervision in Child Care
Reading for January 2010 (reading time est. 3 hours): 1. Engaging Autism Ch 6 Fostering Attention and Engagement, pp 65-77. 2. Engaging Autism Ch 11 (the Senses) pp 130-148 3. DMIC: Axis I , 200 Regulatory-Sensory Processing Disorders 4. DMIC Axis III Regulatory Sensory Processing Capacities 5. Engaging Autism Ch 23 Self-stimulation, Sensory Craving, Overactivity , and Avoidant Behavior pp 310-321. 6. Optional Reading (suggested): Lucy Miller, Sensational Kids
Reading for February 2010 (reading time est. 2.5 hours): 1. Engaging Autism Ch 7 Two-Way Communication and Social Problem Solving pp 78-90.
2. Engaging Autism Ch 12 Visual and Auditory Challenges pp 149-162. Note that we are focusing this month on motor and visual systems. 3. DMIC Axis V Visuospatial capacities. 4. DMIC Axis I: 500. Learning Challenges 5. Optional Reading (suggested): Daniel Stern, The Interpersonal World of the Infant
Reading for March 2010 (reading time est. 2.5 hours): 1. Engaging Autism Ch 8-9, Symbols, Logical Thinking pp 91-114 2. Review Engaging Autism Ch 12 Visual and Auditory Challenges pp 149-162. Note that we are focusing this month on auditory systems. 3. Engaging Autism Ch 22 Scripting and Echolalia pp 301 – 309. 4. DMIC Axis I: 400. Language Disorders 5. DMIC Axis IV: Language capacities 6. Optional Reading (suggested): Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are
Reading for April 2010 (reading time est 4.0 hours): 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
Selma Fraiberg, Ghosts in the Nursery DMIC Axis I: 100. Interactive Disorders DMIC Axis VI :Caregiver and Family Patterns DMIC Axis VII: Stress Engaging Autism Ch24-28 pp 334-368 on behavior problems. Optional Reading (suggested): Selma Fraiberg, The Magic Years
Reading for May 2010 (reading time est. 2 hours): 1. Engaging Autism Ch 17-18 Older people pp212-240 2. Engaging Autism Appendix A Outcome Studies pp 379 – 394 3. Optional Reading: Laura Schreibman, Science and Fiction in Autism