4827 Rugby Ave Suite 100
Bethesda MD 20814
Office: 301 657-1130
Fax: 301 657-1131

Parent Education and Training
The Learning Tree Assessment

    Children with developmental, learning, and/or emotional challenges often benefit from work in three broad areas:

-Mastering social and emotional capacities

-Learning to think more creatively, logically, and reflectively
 
-Strengthening "processing" capacities - motor planning and sequencing, auditory and language, visual spatial, and sensory modulations.
Parent Coaching

After the initial evaluation ongoing Floortime coaching is an important component to make sure the "Plan" is being implemented effectively at home, and that optimal progress can be achieved. Once the core weakness are identified the Floortime techniques that apply to your child will be explained and modeled.

It's necessary to continue to further our understanding of Floortime as each child grows and improves. 


In the first session Jake or Tim will discuss your child's specific challenges and work with the family and the child to assess what areas need to be worked on.

Strengthening these areas improves the child's overall emotional, social, intellectual and academic growth.
 

The Plan
The Floortime Center will develop an individualized plan for each of the areas described above in order to help the child and family work on specific challenges and improve functioning.  The plan will include two components: an active home and educational program, and a Floortime Center intervention program.

The ongoing work with The Floortime Center will continually update the home and educational program and will be closely coordinated with the parents to facilitate the child's developmental progress. For out-of-town clients, regular telephone consultations will compliment on-site follow-up sessions. To develop a comprehensive intervention plan, the first meeting will take from two to three hours. Follow-up sessions will be 45 minutes each.
Who do we coach?
Parents, grandparents, siblings, and professionals working with the child. 

We follow the very strict guidelines that Stanley Greenspan MD trained us with, and also outlined in his many books, radio shows, and conferences. 
The duration of these coaching sessions is 45 minutes and the number of sessions necessary varies from child to child.