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