What exactly is Floortime? Floortime is not just another method or short training course that you can use in your own home. but a HOLDING with a holistic view of humanity. DIRFloortime describes a relationship-oriented partnership approach that treats the child or counterpart as an equal communication partner and where they are emotionally and developmentally in order to support them in their best possible personal development.
A floor timer is actively interested in how the child or other person experiences their world, what ideas, perceptions, feelings, preferences and intentions they have inside them. expires. The focus is always on the child's existing skills, their interests and how they experience the world, i.e. not on teaching them what they cannot, do or should not do. Because this can be learned much better in other ways through their own experiences.
This provides a DIRFloortime perspective in clear contrast to the usual deficit-oriented and hierarchical attitude, whose view of human nature is that an expert with precise knowledge corrects the deficits of his ignorant client and improves him in this way. After all, are we as human beings ever really experts who can really know? Are we not always dependent on the help of our counterparts, on mutual understanding, cooperation and Flexibility?
What Floortime calls ‚following the child's lead‘ does not mean passively imitating whatever the child does, likes or wants, because we are also following the lead of the DIRFloortime Development Modells, which with its Description of Functional Emotional Development Capacities provides a clear orientation in order to be able to assess the child or counterpart appropriately at all times:
- Where is the child developmentally at the moment?
- And what do they need from us in order to develop in the right direction and climb the development ladder in the best possible way?
- What obstacles may be in the way and hinder its best possible development, and how can we get around them?, use or transform?
With such an open-minded understanding of the child's individual profile, we can then use his or her interests to offer him or her a kind of robber's ladder and joyfully come into contact with us and his or her environment and encourage the child.
Some children like to be picked up through interactive play and love the fact that someone is (finally) interested in their interests and preferences; we like to join in and play along. For the ‚early children‘ with autistic-like behaviors, whose interest often with their While the child remains stuck in sensory self-deprivation behaviors, Floortime often means finding ways to get the child to use their own hands more to gain new experiences about themselves and the world and connect with the outside world through reaching and grasping. Because the ability to bA child can grasp and understand only das develop their own active and concrete grasping of things in their environment with their own hands in endless variations with full commitment. And only in this way does a child learn his own body know and itself as a competent person who can relate to other people and diverse environmental situations.
