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Parent Training Strength of Floortime™ Play Intervention

By Sara Henry | April 16th, 2012

After the parents added home-based DIR® Model and Floortime™ Play Intervention at an average of 15.2 hours/week for three months, the intervention group made significantly greater gains in all three measures employed in the study.

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The Power of Floortime™ Play Intervention

By Sara Henry | April 11th, 2012

Preliminary results from an ongoing randomized controlled trial suggest that children in the DIR® Model and Floortime™ Play Intervention treatment group made significantly greater gains in social interaction skills in comparison to the community treatment group.

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10 Tips to Grow “In-Sync” Kids

By Sara Henry | July 15th, 2011

Want to raise a confident, competent child? The kind of kid who loves to learn and play? Who actively participates in the world around her? Who thinks independently while still considering others’ points of view? In three decades of working with young children and their families, Carol S. Kranowitz, M.A. the author of The Outof-Sync Child and The Out-of-Sync Child Has Fun, found these 10 tips most helpful for raising “can-do” kids.

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SSRIs and Autism

By Sara Henry | July 15th, 2011

SSRI use, before or during pregnancy, is associated with a modest increase in the risk of developing an Autism Spectrum Disorders.

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Autism Spec­trum Dis­or­der and Risk of Wandering

By Sara Henry | April 22nd, 2011

Autism is a diagnosis that can lead to serious health and safety risks. Wandering-related factors, e.g. drowning and prolonged exposure, are believed to be among the main causes of death for the autism population.

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Floortime: What it Is, What it Isn’t

By Sara Henry | April 4th, 2011

Dr. Stanley Greenspan, M.D. produced hundreds of weekly web based radio programs between 2004 and 2009, addressing different topics on early child development, parenting, infants and children with special needs, principles for healthy relationships, and how to overcome mental health challenges.

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Collier H.U.G.S.

By Sara Henry | March 29th, 2011

In 2009, an NCEF study on mental illness returned disturbing results: Nearly 20 percent of Collier’s children may be suffering from undiagnosed and untreated behavioral health issues.  H.U.G.S. fills the mental health void by targeting vulnerable children and their families, providing education and early identification of mental health issues.

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What is D.I.R.® Model / Floortime™ Play Intervention?

By Sara Henry | March 14th, 2010

The DIR®/Floortime™ Model is a framework (developed by Stanley I. Greenspan, M.D. and Serena Wieder, Ph.D.) for understanding and improving interventions with infants, children and adults who have challenges in relating, communicating and thinking, including autism spectrum disorders.

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Parents, Clinicians and Educators Draw “The Big Picture”

By Sara Henry | February 28th, 2010

If you are inter­ested in learn­ing of a pow­er­fully inno­v­a­tive new frame­work for address­ing behav­ioral issues from infancy to adult­hood you must attend the upcom­ing Early Child­hood Con­fer­ence, March 27, 2010.

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Children are Miracles: A Letter to Parents

By Sara Henry | February 28th, 2010

When a child is strug­gling with devel­op­men­tal issues, men­tal ill­ness or effects of trauma, my work is to col­lab­o­rate with you in draw­ing your child into joy­ous, con­nected par­tic­i­pa­tion in the world.

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