{"id":9652,"date":"2025-05-03T11:25:35","date_gmt":"2025-05-03T09:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/divi5.janert.info\/?p=9652"},"modified":"2026-10-17T13:41:19","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T11:41:19","slug":"what-is-floortime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/janert.info\/en\/was-ist-floortime\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Floortime?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"et_pb_section_0 et_pb_section et_section_regular et_block_section\"><div class=\"et_pb_row_0 et_pb_row et_block_row\"><div class=\"et_pb_column_0 et_pb_column et_pb_column_4_4 et-last-child et_block_column et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough\"><div class=\"et_pb_text_0 et_pb_text et_pb_bg_layout_light et_pb_module et_block_module\"><div class=\"et_pb_text_inner\"><p><span>What exactly is Floortime? Floortime is not just another method or short training course that you can use in your own home.<\/span><span>\u00a0hin und wieder auch mal anwenden kann, - sondern um eine HALTUNG mit einem ganzheitlichen Menschenbild. DIRFloortime beschreibt\u00a0<\/span><span>a relationship-oriented partnership approach that treats the child or counterpart as an equal communication partner and\u00a0<\/span><span>\u200b<\/span><span>\u200b<\/span><span>where they are emotionally and developmentally in order to support them in their best possible personal development.\u00a0<\/span><br class=\"ac-designer-copy\" \/><br class=\"ac-designer-copy\" \/><span>\u200b<\/span><span>\u200b<\/span><span>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.\u00a0<\/span><span>expires.\u00a0<\/span><span>\u200b<\/span><span>\u200b<\/span><span>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.\u00a0<\/span><span>\u200b<\/span><span>\u200b<\/span><br class=\"ac-designer-copy\" \/><br class=\"ac-designer-copy\" \/><span>\u200b<\/span><span>\u200b<\/span><span>This provides a DIRFloortime perspective\u00a0<\/span><span>in clear contrast to the\u00a0<\/span><span>usual<\/span><span>\u00a0deficit-oriented\u00a0<\/span><span>and\u00a0<\/span><span>hierarchical attitude, whose view of human nature is that\u00a0<\/span><span>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\u00a0<\/span><span>Flexibility<\/span><span>?\u00a0<\/span><br class=\"ac-designer-copy\" \/><br class=\"ac-designer-copy\" \/><span>Was in Floortime 'der F\u00fchrung des Kindes folgen' genannt wird, bedeutet auch nicht, passiv einfach nachzumachen, was immer das Kind macht oder tut, mag oder will.\u200b Denn wir folgen gleichzeitig der F\u00fchrung des DIRFloortime <\/span><span>Development M<\/span><span>odells, which with its\u00a0<\/span><span>Description<\/span><span> of Functional Emotional Development Capacities provides a clear orientation in order to be able to assess the child or counterpart appropriately at all times:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span>Where is the child developmentally at the moment? <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>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? <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>What obstacles may be in the way and hinder its best possible development, and how can we get around them?,\u00a0<\/span><span>use or transform? <\/span><span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span>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.<\/span><br class=\"ac-designer-copy\" \/><br class=\"ac-designer-copy\" \/><span>Manche Kinder lassen sich gerne \u00fcber interaktives Spiel abholen und lieben es, dass sich jemand (endlich mal) f\u00fcr ihre Interessen und Vorlieben interessiert\u200b, uns lassen uns gerne mit machen und mitspielen. Bei den 'fr\u00fchen Kindern' mit autistisch-\u00e4hnlichen Verhaltensweisen, deren Interesse\u00a0<\/span><span>often with their<\/span><span>\u00a0While 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 b<\/span><span>A child can grasp and understand\u00a0<\/span><span>only d<\/span><span>as<\/span><span>\u00a0develop 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\u00a0<\/span><span>his own body\u00a0<\/span><span>know<\/span><span>\u00a0and itself as a\u00a0<\/span><span>competent person who can relate to other people and diverse environmental situations<\/span><span>.\u00a0<\/span><span>\u200b<\/span><span>\u200b<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<span class=\"et_bloom_bottom_trigger\"><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9510,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-autistischen-kindern-bruecken-bauen"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Was ist Floortime? - Autistische Kinder<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Floortime, DIRFloortime, Autismus, autistisch, Kind, beziehungs-orientiert, Therapie, Spiel, f\u00f6rdern\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/janert.info\/en\/what-is-floortime\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Was ist Floortime? 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