Child Development: Understanding, Support and Intervention
Dr. Greenspan, a renowned expert on childhood development and the importance of emotions and relationships between child and parent, shows how to recognize communicative gestures and cues from even the very youngest infants.
He urges parents to enjoy interactions and be playful, offering fascinating information as well as advice and examples of simple activities you can do with your child. It’s great fun to read about how much communication goes on (whether or not we’re actually aware of it), and about how important emotional development is to intellectual development.
"Dr. Greenspan determined that it was our emotional health and relationships that drive our behavior, thinking and communication. Because so many professionals focus on surface behaviors and symptoms, never addressing the core components of a child’s emotional and cognitive health, he wanted to make his work available for all children."
"Floortime is both an intervention for children with special needs and a general support for healthy child development. Floortime meets children where they are and builds upon their strengths and abilities through creating a warm relationship and interacting. Floortime is only Floortime if the child is Relating, Communicating and Thinking."
See the Greenspan Floortime Approach website and for short video explanations of the approach, see The Learning Tree interactive page (allow a few moments for the videos to load).
Let's help our children become the poets of their inner lives.
-Stanley Greenspan
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