I am a speech language pathologist who works primarily with students with ASD. This book has wonderful examples and really outlines the importance of building that relationship and also being aware of yourself. This program has helped so many of my students use more spontaneous language when paired with language stimulation techniques (Help Me Talk book also on Amazon), and even seek out social interactions. DIR is such a powerful program and seems like a major game changer.

An invaluable resource! The DIR Floortime method is, to me, so much more effective than ABA for developing joint attention with your child, fostering language development, and creating a wonderful relationship with your child. After reading this book and incorporating many of the ideas, I've already noticed marked improvement in the areas I mentioned above, and more. I love that reasons are explained for why an activity is included, and what the benefits are for doing it.

As a floortime therapists this book is filled with lots of information to support any student with developmental gaps in their milestones. DIR is not just for typical students. The strategies and suggestions are great at each level.

I have many books on Floortime. This one is hands down the best. It's also the best reference to give parents to use - it's written in a practical, brief and to-the-point format, without a ton of text on the page to overwhelm the reader. You can pick it up, read a page or two on that stage or that aspect of intervention and put it down and off you go, ready to deal with what comes. It's large format makes it user friendly and inviting. The authors came up with adult things to focus on for each level, for example Level one (Regulation and Engagement) has the parallel task for the caregiver of "attunement' - this is enourmously helpful to the caregiver or therapist because the inevitable question is always "what do I do?" when faced with addressing the child's constrictions in each level. It uses fairly plain language and boils it down to a simple pragmatic approach. If you what to actually do Floortime, rather than study it intensively, this book is the first book you should buy. If you are doing Floortime this is the absolute best thing to hand to parents because it's user friendly, readable, not super expensive and beautifully done. Kudos to the authors, they filled a real need with this one.