How much development is possible for children with an autism diagnosis?

A relationship-oriented floortime approach aims to develop precisely the (lack of) interactive capacities that often lead to an autism diagnosis by trusting the child with precisely this development potential and clearly focusing on this assumption of competence instead of allowing ourselves to be unsettled and paralyzed by deficit-oriented autism diagnoses. After all, people and their brains are designed to develop and learn new ways of being. To do this, however, a child needs an empathetic, attentive caregiver who believes in them, responds to them, is genuinely interested in their inner situation and feelings, and supports them specifically through empathetic co-regulation.

These webinars offer a unique opportunity to follow the development over several years of different children with autistic-like behaviors and/or an autism diagnosis, whose parents treat and educate their child in a relationship-oriented and holistic empathic way. 

Look at what these parents did or tried to do to draw their child out of autistic-like withdrawal behaviors and into the world and relationships with other people with interest? What worked and why, and what didn't?

In this webinar you will learn

• using video examples
• know a child with autistic-like behaviors and/or a diagnosis of autism
• how, with the help of his parents and a floortime attitude, this child has developed from an unreachable child to a child who likes to relate, is interested in the world and wants to communicate with other people

This webinar includes

• Video examples of children with autistic-like behaviors and/or an autism diagnosis
• Watching together to learn to observe closely (‚look smaller‘) and perceive the child's subtle communication signals
• Play techniques and strategies to encourage the child's interest, interaction and communication skills
• Ideas for helpful play materials and play activities
• Exchange, questions and discussion about implementation with your own child