Play Their Way: Fostering Engagement, Attention, and Emotional Development Through Play
This graduate course is designed for related service providers and teachers who want to utilize play based strategies to connect and engage with their students while working on the developmental skills needed to succeed in the school environment. This course will focus on analyzing and learning how to utilize the DIR Floortime® technique created and developed by the late Child Psychiatrist, Stanley Greenspan. Therapists and teachers will learn to effectively problem solve and help their students overcome common barriers to engagement with regards to communication, motivation, emotional regulation and attention. This course will also explore the current research with regards to the efficacy of DIR Floortime® as well as areas open to future research.
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(Available for 3 credits)
Course Number: ED 501-5416
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**Textbooks purchased separately and are available here
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"Beyond Behaviors has been the most thought-provoking course I have taken so far with Therapy Advance.
It validated my feelings on the current methods of addressing behaviors and provided a wealth or resources for examining underlying causes and developing an intervention plan."
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I took the Beyond Behavior class and was impressed with everything about it. The required reading offered real-life strategies that were easily infused into my daily practice as a school psychologist. The structure and content of the coursework were excellent, and the assignments were thought-provoking. I received helpful feedback from the founders on every assignment. Highly recommend!"
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-Jill, School Psychologist