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Floortime and Floortime Coaching ICDL Southern California Regional Institute 2009-2010

Parent Coaching • Key: Parent Self-Esteem • Be aware of any anxiety related to child’s development that impacts progress • Focus on strengths of parent and encourage them to focus on strenths of the child.

Monica Osgood

1. Regulation and Interest in the World • The child attends to what is going on in the world through all the senses • The child remains calm and organized without over or under reacting to external or internal stimuli • Shared attention

2. Forming Relationships, Attachment and Engagement • Reciprocal engagements with an emotionally available caregiver • Co-regulation of pleasure, soothing, comfort, satisfaction and frustration

3. Intentional Two-way Communication • Back and forth reciprocal gestures that convey intentions or desires • Simple gestures like pointing turn into complex gestures and back-and-forth conversations, first non-verbal and then verbal

4. Complex problem-solving, behavioral organization and a sense of self • The child is the active thinker and initiator of the plan • Child processes sequences beginning with a wish, moving to intention and the execution of a motor plan

5. Representational Capacity ( symbolic ideas) • Pretend play and language are used to express ideas and feelings symbolically • Elaboration of emotional ideas

6. Emotional Thinking: building bridges between ideas • Child connects and elaborates ideas in logical sequences • Motives of others are taken into account • Consequences of actions are anticipated • Abstract and logical thinking