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DIR Floortime

DIR Floortime

Who can benefit from DIR Floortime?

Ground to Grow specializes in working with neurodivergent children with a wide range of support needs, including Autism Levels 1, 2, and 3.

Through a DIR/Floortime-informed approach, we follow each child’s interests to support motor development, regulation, social connection, and communication through play.

Your child may benefit if they experience:

  • Repetitive play patterns or a strong preference for sameness
  • Hesitation, distress, or avoidance when trying new activities
  • Difficulty generating new play ideas or expanding beyond familiar routines
  • High energy levels that are difficult to organize or channel
  • Limited communication or back-and-forth interaction during play
  • A strong need for things to be done in a particular way
  • Challenges with flexibility, transitions, or unexpected changes
  • Difficulty building relationships with family members or peers
  • Big emotions, frustration, or overwhelm that are difficult to manage
  • A need for a child-led, play-based approach to regulation, communication, and development
  • Torrance CA | Palos Verdes | Redondo Beach | Hermosa Beach | Manhattan Beach and other neighboring cities to the South Bay LA!

We use DIR Floortime frameworks to assess your child’s development.

Child-led play is our method to advance skills.

Floortime OT is for children of all developmental levels who experience challenges with motor skills, communication, self-regulation, attention, and play.

If you have questions about whether your child would benefit, contact us
1 (310) 400-6064
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DIR Floortime at Ground to Grow Supports:

  • Sensory processing for community integration (visual, auditory, tactile, proprioception, vestibular)
  • Self-help and adaptive skills
  • Self-advocacy and peer interactions
  • Communication and social skills
  • Relationship building
We look closely at your child’s individual differences and developmental levels to provide strategies to facilitate social skill development for daily life and community integration. Ongoing intervention will include play sessions with parent collaboration and participation.

We Consider

  • Fine Motor
  • Gross Motor
  • Sensory Processing and Modulation
  • Motor Planning and Praxis
  • Expressive Language
  • Biomedical Factors
  • Sociocultural Factors

What does DIR stand for?

Developmental

We take a whole-child approach to determine where your child falls developmentally and we meet them there. The basis of development relies on our ability to self-regulate and engage in reciprocal interactions. From there, problem solving and symbolic play begin to emerge. Our comprehensive knowledge of developmental milestones allows us to facilitate a flexible and free-flowing play environment that meets your child where they are at in any given moment.

Individual Differences

No two children are the same. We look at the way your child interacts with the world, what their interests are, their social emotional needs and how they respond to their environment. With provision of gentle guidance, we recognize a child’s developing autonomy and honor neurodivergent minds. Our observations span a variety of different skill areas including sensory processing, language, fine/gross motor skills, visuospatial skills, motor planning, biomedical factors, and sociocultural factors. In order to gain insight into your child’s interactions with the world, we consider and understand all the pieces that unite as their unique presentation.

Relationship-based

Floortime is all about building relationships. This is the magic of floortime. We use interpersonal connection, emotional expression and co-regulation as a stepping stone to build skills. Play is our method of intervention. We will be on the floor with you and your child.

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