Product Details

• Format: Color, Digital Sound, Dolby, Full length, Full Screen, Original recording remastered, NTSC
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Number of discs: 2
• Studio: Floortime Foundation
• DVD Release Date: April 28, 2005
• Run Time: 425 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0009XZITG
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #98,039 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

About the Actor

Stanley I. Greenspan, M.D., clinical professor of psychiatry and pediatrics at George Washington University Medical School and Chairman of the Interdisciplinary Council on Developmental and Learning Disorders, is a practicing child psychiatrist, founding president of Zero to Three, and a supervising child psychoanalyst at the Washington Psychoanalytic Institute. A recipient of the American Psychiatric Association's highest award for child psychiatry research, Dr. Greenspan is the author or editor of over 100 scholarly articles and chapters, as well as 35 influential books.

Serena Wieder, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist in private practice, specializing in the diagnosis and treatment of infants and young children. She is the Director of the DIR™ Institute Certificate Program and is also the co-author, with Stanley Greenspan, M.D., of The Child with Special Needs: Encouraging Intellectual and Emotional Growth. Dr. Wieder is a member of the Board of Directors of Zero to Three/National Center for Infants, Toddlers and Families. She has published widely and is a frequent lecturer.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very helpful for broadening live training., November 26, 2007

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This review is from: Floortime DVD Training Series. Set 1 The Basics: Relating and Communicating (DVD)

Another reviewer seems to be looking for a quick fix which DIR/Floortime is anything but. DIR/Floortime is subtle yet very effective for many higher functioning ASD children. It takes quite a while to learn DIR/Floortime through observing professionals doing it. These DVDs help broaden training, but they are by no means a replacement for direct observation. I don't think they even intended these for a replacement. These comments come from my personal experience observing several hundred hours of Floortime and ABA instruction given to my child by instructors with an average of 20 years of experience. If used properly, these DVDs are rather good. The production quality is NOT good, though. No Academy's here.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Most importat thing, January 10, 2008

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This review is from: Floortime DVD Training Series. Set 1 The Basics: Relating and Communicating (DVD)

If you are not familiar with DIR concepts, I would recommend to read first "Engaging Autism". Anyway, it is the most helpful tool to engage not only autistic children but also the ones who are at risk. My two-year daughter is at risk and she is showing very good improvement. I strongly recommend it.

10 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars a huge disappointment and waste of money, January 22, 2007

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Ali Smith - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Floortime DVD Training Series. Set 1 The Basics: Relating and Communicating (DVD)

This 'training' series did not fit my learning style at all. Actually, Im not sure how they can even call it training. I thought different methods/strategies would be taught and then examples would be given so I would be knowledgeable enough to apply floortime therapy at home. Instead, the introduction on each of the DVDs in this series is the same. Even the books for the series are exactly the same in the beginning and end. The only difference is the type of children used in the play examples. Instead of being trained I feel like Im just watching different parents playing with their kids. Every once in awhile a suggestion is made to the parents on how to interact differently. I don't want to watch random parents playing with their children to glean from it whatever I may. I have never received any sort of training in this manner. It seems like they didn't want to put much effort into this training series so they just videoed a couple of sessions and copied them to DVD. Every DVD in this series was a huge disappointment and waste of money.