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Redefning the Potential or Emotional and Social Functioning

In Children with Autism and Special Needs

November 7, 8, and 9, 2008 n Hilton McLean, Tysons Corner, Virginia (Washington, DC Metro Area)

New Research on Social an Emotional Gainsan Changes in Brain Functioning

in Chilren with ASdResults rom New Outcome Studes

on the DiR/Floortme Approach

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New Insights into Ientiying an TreatingMeical Conitions Associate with ASd

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A Bioethical Approach to OvercomingProblems with Behavior an Aggression in the

Eucation o Chilren with ASd

Sensory Organization and the DIR Model, taught byRosemary White, O.T.

Representing Cognition in DIR: Insights into LanguageImpairment and Visual Spatial Processing Challenges,taught by Serena Wieer, Ph.d., Sima Gerber, Ph.d., CCCand Gilbert Foley, E.d.

Floortime or Novice Players, taught by BarbaraKalmanson, Ph.d. and Molly Romer Witten, Ph.d.

The Aect-Based Language Curriculum (ABLC), taught by

diane Lewis, M.A., CCC/SLPThe DIR and IEP Goal Bank, taught by Monica Osgooand Lauren Blaszak rom Celebrate the Chilren

Communication Through the DIR Lens: A Tool Kit o Ideasand Strategies, taught by Sherri Cawn, M.A., CCC-SLPand Ciny Harrison, M.Sc. Reg. CASLPO

Medication in the Treatment o Developmental and LearningDisorders, taught by Josh Feer, M.d.

Using the DIR Approach in Feeding Therapy, taught bydiane Cullinane, M.d., Patricia Novak, MPH, Rd, CLE,and Karla Auserau, MA, OTR/L

See complete list and schedule inside.

1 2 t h A n n u A l I n t e r n A t I o n A l C o n F e r e n C e

A Choice o Aternoon Concurrent Seminars

Beginning Floortime

Sensory Motor and Regulatory Treatment

Integracin Escolar y Problemas de Comportamiento.Aplicando el modelo DIR/Floortime en aulas escolarescon nios de habla hispana.

DIR and Psychoanalysis

Can You Outgrow the PDD Diagnosis?

Understanding Aggression

A DIR Reection on Siblings: The Other Children

Children and Babies with Mood Swings

Adolescents: Using the DIR Model

DIR

Programs or Middle and High School StudentsNIMH Clinical Protocols

Greenspan Social Emotional Growth Chart

DIR and Advocacy

And many more!

See inside or details and complete list.

T. Berry Brazelton, M.d., Proessor o Pediatrics,Emeritus, Harvard University Medical School, Stanley

Greenspan, M.d., Clinical Proessor o Psychiatry,

Behavioral Science and Pediatrics, George WashingtonUniversity, Richar Kelley, M.d., Proessor oPediatrics, Johns Hopkins University, Beth Malow,M.d., Associate Proessor o Neurology, Vanderbilt

University, Glenn McGee, Ph.d., Editor-in-Chie, TheAmerican Journal o Bioethics, Ricki Robinson, M.d.,MPH, Clinical Proessor o Pediatrics, Keck School oMedicine, USC, Stuart Shanker, d. Phil., Proessor oPhilosophy and Psychology, York University, Joshua

Sparrow, M.d., Assistant Proessor o Psychiatry,Harvard University Medical School, Sarah Spence,M.d., National Institute o Mental Health, Serena

Wieer, Ph.d., Clinical Psychologist and CEO, ICDLGraduate School, and others.

ICdL Graute School AcceptingApplictions or Thir Class o New Ph.d.ProgramIn Inant and Early Childhood

Mental Health and Developmental Disorders

See Details Inside

Featuring Panels on

Pre-conerence Workshops

With Presentations by


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Preliminary Conerence Program

Continuing Our Successul New FormatAs in past years we have organized this conerence around morning plenary sessions, that bringtogether renowned speakers presenting the latest inormation on Autism Spectrum Disorders, andaternoon concurrent seminars on a wide range o topics. The seminars are organized around

general themes that will help you tailor your choices to those areas that most interest you.

R The DIR Model and Intervention

] Clinical Cases

1 Education

Research

R Policy and Advocacy

Again this year, we will oer pre-conerence workshops on Thursay, November 6. Theseworkshops provide an opportunity to explore additional topics in depth with an extraordinary groupo aculty. There is an additional ee or the pre-conerence workshops and you are encouraged toregister early as space is limited. See pages 9 and 10 or a complete list.

Poster Sessions

New Developmentin the DIR World

Featuring the innovative application othe DIR/Floortime Model in the U.S.and internationally across a wide rangeo research, intervention and trainingprograms.

We invite you to apply to present yourprogram.

Details at www.icl.com.

Thursday, Nov. 6 Friday, Nov. 7 Saturday, Nov. 8 Sunday, Nov. 9

7:00 amRegistration Opens

dIR Institute CertifcateProgram Breakast

Una Reunin Con OtrosCompaeros de Habla Hispana

7:30

8:00Welcome & Presentation o

Jennier doran Haan Scholarship

8:0012:30Plenary Session

New Insights into Ientiyingan Treating Meical

Conitions Associatewith ASd

See page 6

8:0012:30Concluing Plenary

A Bioethical Approach toOvercoming Problems withBehavior an Aggression inthe Eucation o Chilren

with ASd

See page 9

12:30Conerence Conclues

8:30

8:3012:30Plenary Session

New Research on SocialEmotional Gains an Changes

in Brain Functioning in Chilrenwith Autism an Special Nees

See page 3

9:00

9:30

10:00

10:30

11:00

11:30

12:00 Noon Registration Opens

12:30 12:302:00Lunch Break

International Networking Lunch

12:302:00Lunch Break

Parent Networking LunchICdL Grauate School Ino

Session

1:00

1:30

1:304:30 pmPre-Conerence

Workshops(addtonal ee)

See page 9

2:00 2:003:30Concurrent Seminars

See pages 34

2:003:30Concurrent Seminars

See pages 67

2:30

3:00

3:30 3:304:00Poster Sessions 3:304:00Poster Sessions

4:00 4:005:30Concurrent Seminars

See pages 35

4:005:30Concurrent Seminars

See pages 67

4:30dinner Break

5:00

5:30

5:308:30 pmPre-Conerence

Workshops(addtonal ee)

See page 9

6:00

6:30

7:00

7:30

8:00

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Conerence at a Glance


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7:00 am

Registration Opens

Registration will also be open during workshop

hours on Thursday.

8:008:30 am

Welcome and Presentation o the Jen

Haan Parent Training Scholarship

Stanley I. Greenspan, M.d., Chair, ICDL

8:309:15 am

The DIR/Floortime Approach,

Emotional and Social Gains and Changes

in Brain Functioning in Children with

ASD and Other Special Needs: The Why

and the How

Stanley I. Greenspan, M.d., Chair, ICDL, ClinicalProessor o Psychiatry, Behavioral Science andPediatrics, George Washington University

9:1510:00 am

Pathways to Mental Health and Autism;

New Studies on Brain Behavior and

Relationships

Stuart Shanker, d. Phil., Proessor oPhilosophy and Psychology, York University

10:0010:30 am

Morning Break

10:3011:30 amDIR/Floortime Treatment and

Outcome Study

devin Casenhiser., Ph.d., Head o Research,Milton and Ethel Harris Research Initiative(MEHRI), York University, and Gil Tippy,Psy.d., Clinical Director, The Rebecca School,Brooklyn, NY

11:30 am12:30 pm

Changes in Brain Functioning in

Autism with Intensive DIR/Floortime

Therapy: Preliminary Results

Jim Stieben, Ph.d., Senior Research Scientist,Milton and Ethel Harris Research Initiative(MEHRI), York University

12:302:00 pm

Lunch on Your Own

International Networking Lunch

Join participants rom outside the U.S. or aninormal opportunity to network with otherproessionals rom your country and region.

2:003:30 pm

Concurrent SeminarsAttend the session

that most interests you.

Autism The Musical(Video)

AUTISM: THE MUSICAL is the story o onewomans optimistic pledge to lead a groupo autistic children in deying diagnosedexpectations by writing, rehearsing andperorming their own ull-length musical. Followingfve Los Angeles children over the course osix months, director Tricia Regan captures thestruggles and triumphs o their amily lives andobserves how this musical production gives theseperormers a comort zone in which they canexplore their creative sides.

(Autism the Musicalwill be shown again onSaturday aternoon)

R Beginning Floortime Part One:

Fostering Early Stages o Engagement

and Purposeul Communication

This session is or parents, proessionals,educators and school aides beginning to usethe DIR/Floortime model with children withregulatory and developmental challengesin home programs, schools or in privatepractice. It will illustrate how to encourageaect-based developmentally appropriateinteractions or children with various sensory

and developmental profles, maintain acontinuous ow o interactions, open and closecircles o communication, encourage initiative,shared attention and engagement, as well aspurposeul behavior and problem solving. Thesecapacities are the oundation or higher levelsymbolic play and abstract thinking. TypicalFloortime challenges will be addressed in thecontext o stuck moments when dealing withavoidance, rustration, tantrums, aggression,ears and anxiety. Video clips will be used toillustrate parent-child interactions, therapist-child interactions, and parent coaching.

Lisa eFaria, MSW, LCSW, BCd, ClinicalSocial Worker, Scotts Valley and Monterey,

CA and Rebecca Shahmoon Shanok, LCSW,Ph.d., Director, Institute or Inants, Children andFamilies, Jewish Board o Family and ChildrensServices, NY, NY

R DIR and Advocacy

This seminar will address the role o a DIRadvocate, including parents, educators, therapistsand proessionals and how to eectively

communicate and advocate or children withspecial needs based on their individualizedneeds. It will also ocus on the challenges inimplementing DIR in the schools, including howto introduce the concept o bringing DIR into theprogram, how is this methodology educationallyrelevant, how sensory needs o the child relate tobehavioral concerns, how to write goals that willbe measurable and acceptable to the school, howto demonstrate that DIR is dierent than what isdone in schools today (educators oten say theyare already doing DIR), and how to advocateor ongoing training and support. Potentialstrategies, supported by Department o Educationguidelines, as well as the NY and NJ Autism

Program Quality Indicators, will be discussed.

Cheryl Martinez, Founder and Director, CCFParent Advocacy and Consulting, LLC, Hazlet,NJ, and Michele Havens, E.d., DIR Director,Imagine Academy, Brooklyn, NY and EducationaConsultant and Parent Advocate in privatepractice.

The DIR OT Addressing Anxiety

AnxietyWhat are the underlying actors inthe childs individual profle that contribute toanxiety, how it maniests itsel in the childsbehavioral responses and how does a DIR OTClinician address this rom the DIR perspective?

Rosemary White, OTR/L, Director, PediatricPhysical and Occupational Therapy Services,Seattle, WA

1 DIR Programs or Middle and HighSchool Students

This program will illustrate private and publicschool programs or older children and willocus on how to support students to regulate,communicate and think in school settings.Challenges in older children, such as anxietyand behavioral issues, will be discussed.Specifc developmental and academicstrategies that encourage students to use a

wide range o capacities will be illustratedthrough video with specifc emphasis on how todevelop educational curriculums which workand also meet standards. Practical strategies,approaches, and hands on motivating lessonideas that illustrate how to eectively implementhe DIR model into a middle and high schoolcurriculum will be presented.

Monica Osgoo, Founder/Executive Director,and Karen Mcdowell, Head Teacher, Celebratethe Children, Wharton, NJ

PreliminaryConerence

Program

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7

New Research on Social and Emotional Gains and

Changes in Brain Functioning in Children With ASD

Results From New Outcome Studies on the DIR/Floortime Approach


] Clinical Cases

1 Education

Research




Greenspan Social-Emotional Growth

Chart: A Screening Questionnaire or

Inants and Young Children

This session will introduce participants to theGreenspan Social-Emotional Growth Chart,a norm-reerenced screening o key social-emotional milestones in inants and childrenrom birth to 42 months o age. The short,35-item Questionnaire, is designed to becompleted by parents or caregivers in lessthan 10 minutes. Presenters will explain thepsychometric properties o the instrument, howit is administered, how to score and interpretthe results, and discuss possible uses o the

screening in primary care and early educationsettings, as well as in research opportunities.

Cecilia Breinbauer, M.d., M.P.H., ChildPsychiatrist, Managing Director, ICDL GraduateSchool, and devin Casenhiser, Ph.d., Heado Research, Milton and Ethel Harris ResearchInitiative (MEHRI), York University, Toronto, ON

R Individual Dierences in the

Application o Language Intervention

Strategies: When To Do What With

Whom

Specifc language issues which will becovered include promoting shared attention,

aective engagement, and reciprocity;developing intentionality; improving languagecomprehension; addressing scripting,acilitating higher level pragmatic skills.Videotapes will be used to illustrate languageintervention strategies.

Sima Gerber, Ph.d., Proessor oCommunication Disorders, Queens College,CUNY, and Michele Ricamato, M.A., CCC/SLP,Speech Language Pathologist, Chicago, IL

R Understanding Aggression rom a DIR

Perspective

(Note, ths Semnar s 3 hours long and wll

contnue ater the break.)

Aggressive behaviors are challenging and maybe easily misunderstood. In this seminar, wewill describe how children learn to experience,manage and express their aggressive eelingsas they master the unctional developmentalmilestones. Through richly co-regulated andengaged relationships with caregivers, a childsaggressive impulses become the healthyassertive part o the personality that leadsto mastery o the environment and growthin many areas o development. Individualdierences in sensory processing, modulationand communication may compromise thisprocess. Using case illustrations, the seminar

will demonstrate how DIR

interventions helpchildren enter into the relationships required toregulate aggression and develop the creative,symbolic and logical expressions o aggression.We will also discuss how to support impulsiveand aggressive children who have not yetmastered the unctional developmental levels.

Stephanie Pass, Ph.d., Psychologist, SanFrancisco, CA, diane Selinger, Ph.d.,Psychology, Glenview, IL, and Ira Glovinsky,Ph.d., Clinical Psychologist, Ann Arbor, MI

3:304:00 pm

Aternoon Break

Poster Sessions: New Developments in

the DIR World!

Featuring new and innovative applications othe DIR/Floortime Model in the U.S. andinternationally in research, intervention andtraining programs.

For normaton on how you can apply to

present your program, vstwww.icl.com.

4:005:30 pm



1 Adolescents: Using the DIR Model toReclaim Capacities and Develop Potentia

The Community School in Atlanta, Georgia isa secondary school program or adolescentswith autistic spectrum disorders. The schoolwas recently eatured in the New York TimesSunday Magazine. This presentation describesthe experience o two very dierent students atthe school: their profles, the schools approachto intervention and education, and the changesthat occurred or the students as a result o theprogram.

dave Nelson, LPC, Director, The CommunitySchool, Atlanta, GA

R Beginning Floortime Part Two: The

Heart o DIR and Floortime; Child,

Parent and Relationship Development

This seminar will delve deeper into the DIR/Floortime Model, exploring the modelscenterpiece: relationship development.Relationship capacity is both a heartelt drive,as well as the organizing agent o developmentwhich promotes growth in children and in theirparents. Videotaped examples o childrenat each o the 6 developmental stages, the

inuence o individual constitutional dierencesand a ocus on how parents themselves developwill culminate with a spotlight on developmento the dyad. The session will take up the queries:For providers: How can I understand and reachparents and children as a relational unit so thatboth thrive? For parents: Can I embrace thepower o my relationship with my child as theprimary activating agent to promote her/ hisgrowth? And or all: How do we maximize ourinteractions with this child to nurture relational-capacity and stimulate social-emotional-communicative-cognitive development? Thisseminar welcomes parents and proessionals.

Rebecca Shahmoon Shanok, LCSW, Ph.d.,

Director, Institute or Inants, Children andFamilies, Jewish Board o Family and ChildrensServices, NY, NY and Lisa eFaria, MSW,LCSW, BCd, Clinical Social Worker, ScottsValley and Monterey, CA

2:003:30 pm

Concurrent Seminars (continued)


Program

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7


All conerence handouts will be posted on the ICDL website. Your registration confrmation will contain a link to view and print the handouts.


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Program

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7


Early Intervention: A Case Study

An occupational therapist presents a case studyo a child seen through an early interventionprogram rom age 8 months to age three andagain at a ollow-up visit at age 5. The babyunder discussion has two older brothers on theautism spectrum and showed early symptomssuggestive o developing autism. Signifcantamily issues clouded the course o treatment.The case study ollows the clinical reasoningand sel-reective process o the unoldingoccupational therapy treatment.

Beth Osten, M.S., OTR/L, Director, BethOsten and Associates, Skokie, IL and BarbaraKalmanson, Ph.d., Clinical Psychologist andSpecial Educator, San Francisco, CA and Dean,ICDL Graduate School

R Bench to Trench: Research Support orthe DIR Model

This seminar will cover a variety o areas inneuroscience, rom animal and human evidenceshowing that relationships can inuencethe outcome o genetic predisposition, tomathematical, neurophysiological, and clinicalwork underlying the central role o emotionalengagement.

Josh Feer, M.d., Child and Family Psychiatrist,Solana Beach, CA

R Integracin Escolar y Problemas de

Comportamiento. Aplicando el modelo

DIR/Floortime en aulas escolares con

nios de habla hispana.

Este seminario abordar los desaos quenios con necesidades especiales enrentanal integrarse a una sala de clases y revisarestrategias eectivas para abordar problemasde comportamiento. El seminario estardirigido a todos quienes estn vinculados anios con necesidades especiales asistiendoal colegio, incluyendo proesores, otrosproesionales del equipo de intervencin ypadres. Las presentadoras abordarn lasrealidades de inclusin en pases de hablahispana as como los desaos culturales en lassalas de clases con nios latinos en EstadosUnidos. Propuestas eectivas de evaluacin eintervencin para la educacin escolar sernanalizadas desde el marco conceptual delmodelo DIR/Floortime.

School Inclusion and Behavioral Problems.

Applying the DIR/Floortime Model in

Classroom Settings (A Seminar or Spanish

Speakers)

This seminar will discuss the challenges that chldren

wth specal needs ace when ncluded n manstream

classrooms and wll revew eectve strateges to

approach behavoral problems n ths settng. The

presenters wll address the realty o ncluson n

Spansh speakng countres as well as the cultural

challenges n classroom settngs where Spansh

speakng chldren are ncluded n the US. They wll

also descrbe eectve evaluaton and nterventonstrateges based on the DiR/Floortme Model or

conceptual ramework.

Cecelia Breinbauer, M.d., MPH, ChildPsychiatrist and Managing Director, ICDLGraduate School and Milagros Corero, E.d.,OTR/L, Executive Director, ITTs or Children,

Atlanta, GA

It Takes a Village to Hold a Family

This case discussion will examine theexperience o a non-mental health proessionaltrying to support a childs development in themidst o a raging custody battle and a motheround unft to care or her child. The casehighlights supporting team development andworking with parents who have mental healthchallenges.

Michele Ricamoto, M.A., CCC/SLP, SpeechLanguage Pathologist, Chicago, IL and RubyMoye Salazar, LCSW, BCd, Clinical SocialWorker, Salazar Associates, Clarks Summit, PA

The Miracle Project

A presentation about The Miracle Projectatheatre and flm arts program or chldren wth

specal needs and ther typcally developng

sblngs and peers, and how to initiate amusical/drama program or ASD kids in yourcommunity. The presenter will also share herexperience withAutism the Musical.

Elaine Hall, Founder and Director o the MiracleProject

Prosody in Autism Spectrum

Disorders: Its Importance or Our Work

With Children

A presentation o current, ongoing research onexpressive and receptive prosody in autism.This session will describe what prosody is andraise awareness o the role and difculties that

children on the spectrum have in understandingothers prosody and expressing themselveswith appropriate prosody. Implications or DIRintervention will be discussed.

Lois Black, Ph.d., Associate Scientist, Centeror Spoken Language Understanding, OregonHealth and Science University

R Understanding Aggression rom a

DIR Perspective

(Note: This is part 2 o this Seminar.)

Conerence Book Store

TheSpecial Nee Projectbook store will be open duringworkshop and conerence

hours and will have a large selection obooks by conerence aculty as well asother publications related to the conerencetopics.

Continuing Education (CEUs)

YCS (Youth Consultation Service) is a co-sponsor o the 2008 ICDL Conerence and anauthorized provider o IACET CEUs. IACET, The International Association or ContinuingEducation and Training, is a non-proft association dedicated to quality continuing educationand training programs. Many organizations accept the IACET CEU, including AOTA, ASHA,and NASW. For a complete list o organizations that accept the IACET CEU, visit http://www.iacet.org/resources/accept_ceu.htm.

There will be a $25 processing ee or IACET CEUs. All conerence attendees will receive aCertifcate o Attendance ree o charge.



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7:00 am

Registration Opens

7:008:00 am

DIR Institute Certifcate

Program Breakast

An invitation or current DIR Institute candidatesto come to a reunion and an opportunity orothers interested in DIR intensive educationalprograms to attend. Join aculty, ellowproessionals and Floortime practitioners tolearn more about the Certifcate Program.

8:008:15 am

Introduction

Ricki Robinson, M.d., MPH, Clinical Proessoro Pediatrics, Keck School o Medicine,

University o Southern Caliornia

8:159:15 am

Mitochondrial Conditions Associated

with Autism Spectrum Disorders

Richar Kelley, M.d., Ph.d., Proessor oPediatrics, Johns Hopkins University

9:1510:15 am

Sleep Issues and ASD

Beth Malow, M.d., Associate Proessor oNeurology and Director, Vanderbilt Sleep Center

10:1510:45 am

Morning Break

10:4511:45 am

Seizure Disorders and Other Medical

Conditions: NIMH Research Initiatives

Sarah Spence, M.d., Ph.d., Sta Clinician,Pediatrics and Developmental NeuropsychiatryBranch, NIMH

11:45 am12:30 pm

Ask the Doctor

An opportunity to present medical challenges inyour patients with autism spectrum disorders to

Drs. Robinson, Kelley, Mallow and Spence.

12:302:00 pm

Lunch On Your Own

Parent Networking Lunch

Join other parents attending the ICDL conerenceor a networking lunch. An inormal opportunity tomeet other amilies rom your region.

ICDL Graduate School Inormation Session

Graduate School Faculty will discuss the newPh.D. program in Inant and Early ChildhoodMental Health and Developmental Disorders.

2:003:30 pm



Autism the Musical(Video)

AUTISM: THE MUSICAL is the story o onewomans optimistic pledge to lead a groupo autistic children in deying diagnosedexpectations by writing, rehearsing andperorming their own ull-length musical. Followingfve Los Angeles children over the course osix months, director Tricia Regan captures thestruggles and triumphs o their amily lives andobserves how this musical production gives theseperormers a comort zone in which they canexplore their creative sides.

R Can You Outgrow the PDD Diagnosis?

Pervasive Developmental Disorder, NotOtherwise Specifed (PDD NOS) commonlybecomes the diagnosis o choice when a smallchild shows pervasive delay across all domainso developmental process but still maintainssufcient relatedness and/or developmentalmomentum that the characteristics o aspecifc pervasive developmental disorder(such as typical autism, selective mutism, orother developmental delays) are not observed.This seminar will explore the characteristicso PDD-NOS when it is encountered in earlydevelopment, and its possible course whencomprehensive (DIR) intervention occurs.

We will discuss the theory behind the historicmeaning o delay and what practices andprocesses are necessary in order to understandthese developmental delay issues as potentiallyresolvable.

Gerry Costa, Ph.d., Director, YCS Instituteor Inant and Preschool Mental Health, EastOrange, NJ and Molly Romer Witten, Ph.d.,Clinical Psychologist, Chicago, IL

Children and Babies with

Mood Swings

This seminar will present very recent inormationon the earliest symptoms o mood disordersin preschool aged children. We will look athow mood disorders have been approachedtraditionally and then discuss variables thathave not been reviewed in the literature. Thesession will ocus on preschool depression andpreschool bipolar disorder.

Ira Glovinsky, Ph.d., Clinical Psychologist,Ann Arbor, MI, and Co-Author, with StanleyGreenspan, M.D. o the recently published,Chldren and Babes wth Mood Swngs; New

insghts or Parents and Proessonals

R DIR/Floortime All Day Long

This seminar will discuss how to apply the

principles o Floortime to everyday living withthe child with special needs and how to sensitizeourselves and our amilies to the countlessordinary and extraordinary situations that arepotential goldmines or promoting regulationand attention, warm engagement, organization,problem solving, cause and eect, symbolicmeaning and more while moving around town,working around the house, or buying gasolineor groceries. The group will interactively developsome guidelines and examples o these chargedinstances with which to heighten our awarenessand assist parents to accrue this special eyeand creative attitude.

Milagros Corero, E.d., OTR/L, ExecutiveDirector, ITTs or Children, Atlanta, GA and Gridoyle, Ph.d., Clinical Psychologist, Bethesda, MD

A DIR Reection on Siblings

The Other Children

Siblings are oten orgotten in our work withchildren and amilies. In the hope o noticing andincluding the siblings, a long term model caseo a sibling with a special needs brother will bepresented. A typical siblings developmentalchallenges and therapeutic intervention will bediscussed rom a DIR perspective. Many o theissues related to siblings o special needs childrenwill be included in this presentation, including the

actors that hinder and contribute to a siblingsemotional development, given his growing up witha special needs child in the amily.

diane Selinger, Ph.d., Psychologist, Glenview,IL and Stephanie Pass, Ph.d., Psychologist,San Francisco, CA


Program

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8

New Insights into Identiying and Treating

Medical Conditions Associated with ASD


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Research




Evaluating Outcomes: Challenges or

the DIR Clinician

This seminar will discuss the challenges oevaluating outcomes o DIR Intervention or theDIR clinician or educator oering services inclinics or schools including alternative researchdesigns. A range o pre and post measurementsrelated to DIR objectives will be described by theDIR research panel including the FEAS, languagesamples and dialogue analyses that measurereciprocity or circles o communication,and related current research. How parents eelabout the changes in their relationships andcommunication with their children, including toolsto measure parent satisaction and stress, willbe suggested. Resources or urther study andreerences will be provided.

Lois Black, Ph.d., Associate Scientist,

Center or Spoken Language Understanding,Oregon Health and Science University, devinCasenhiser, Ph.d., Head o Research, andSonia Mastrangelo, MEHRI, York University,Richar Solomon, M.d., Medical Director, Ann

Arbor Center or Developmental and BehavioralPediatrics, and Serena Wieer, Ph.d., ClinicalPsychologist and Director, DIR Institute

NIMH Clinical Protocols

A continuation o the morning discussion withurther inormation on National Institute o MentalHealth (NIMH) clinical protocols as they relate tochildren with ASD.

Sarah Spence, M.d., Sta Clinician, Pediatricsand Developmental Neuropsychiatry Branch,NIMH and Ricki Robinson, M.d., MPH,Clinical Proessor o Pediatrics, Keck School oMedicine, University o Southern Caliornia

R Social and Interactive Groups

This seminar will help parents and proessionalslearn how to acilitate socialization among childrenwith special needs. Adult acilitation in socialand interactive groups encourages children tohave developmentally appropriate interactionswith peers. Social groups allow children todevelop skills including sensory and emotionalregulation, initiation and engagement with peers,

assertiveness, complex social problem solving,compromising, symbolic play, and building bridgesbetween logical ideas. Focus will be placed onlearning to recognize the delicate balance o activeacilitation versus passive acilitation, or when tobe more involved and when to let the childrenproblem-solve themselves. Using video clips andslides, this workshop will illustrate dierent toolsand techniques or eective and positive adultacilitation in social groups.

Tim Bleecker and Jake Greenspan, Co-Directors, DIR Support Services, Bethesda, MD

Utilizing Principles o Motor Control to

Support Relationships between an Inant

and Mother within the DIR Model

With only a one month window to help a babywith motor control challenges to organize andrespond to a relationship with his pregnantmother, this therapist integrated dierentmethods to develop his motor system to allowbeautiul reciprocity and engagement to emerge.

Lois Gol, OTR/L, Occupational Therapist,Center or Pediatric Therapy, Miami, FLand Barbara Kalmanson, Ph.d., ClinicalPsychologist and Special Educator, SanFrancisco, CA and Dean, ICDL Graduate School

3:304:00 pm

Aternoon Break

Poster Sessions: New Developments inthe DIR World!

Featuring new and innovative applications othe DIR/Floortime Model in the U.S. andinternationally in research, intervention andtraining programs.

For normaton on how you can apply to

present your program, vstwww.icl.com.

4:005:30 pm

Concurrent Seminars

Attend the sessionthat most interests you.

1 DIR and Psychoanalysis

This seminar is or clinicians o variousdisciplines who encounter emotional-mentalhealth challenges in amilies they work with.Historically, eorts to understand, conceptualizeand help amilies have taken dierentperspectives and built upon each other astheory and practice evolved. This seminarwill present clinical case material with acultyhighlighting how traditional inant mental healthand psychoanalysis would approach thesechallenges, and how DIR dierentiates these

perspectives and organizes our understandingand work to optimize the development ochildren and parents together and understandour relationships with them.

DIR Institute Faculty: Ron Balamuth, Ph.d.,Gerry Costa, Ph.d., Gil Foley, E.d., BarbaraKalmanson, Ph.d., Molly Romer Witten,Ph.d., and Serena Wieer, Ph.d.

DIR Therapeutic Interventions with

Siblings: A Panel Discussion

This seminar will present the case o a siblingwith a special needs brother and will emphasizepromoting developmental growth in siblingsusing the DIR model, based on what we havelearned rom our work with siblings over manyyears. The panel will include presentations onearly intervention work with siblings duringinancy, later therapeutic work with oldersiblings and their amilies and including siblingswithin DIR treatment sessions.

diane Selinger, Ph.d., Psychologist, Glenview,IL, Rosemary White, OTR/L, Director, PediatricPhysical and Occupational Therapy Services,Seattle, WA, and Sherry Cawn, M.A., CCC/SLP, Speech Language Pathologist/EarlyChildhood Specialist, Northbrook, IL

Facilitating the Development o Oral-

Motor/Speech Skills within the DIR

Framework

This seminar will provide specifc inormationabout how acilitating regulation andengagement inorm the teaching o oral-motor/speech skills. Floortime will be discussed,as will other therapeutic interventions suchas sensory integration, neurodevelopmentaltreatment, music, cranial sacral, horns, bubblesstretches, the PROMPT and the KaumanSpeech Praxs Test. Demonstrations and videoswill be used to illustrate the techniques.

diane Lewis, MA, CCC/SLP, Directoro Communication Enrichment Services,Bethesda, MD and Bobbi Wae, MAT, CCC/SLP, SLP, Alexandria, VA

R Pennsylvania State Assessment Project

This seminar will provide participants anopportunity to enhance and learn skills inprogram development, sta training, communityservice shits and policy changes. The panelwill discuss the components o programdevelopment and policy shits that lead toservices providing developmental-relationshipbased care on local and state levels.

Ruby Moy e Salazar, L.C.S.W., B.C.d., ClinicalSocial Worker, Salazar Associates, ClarksSummit, PA, Bernar McBrie, Director oBehavioral Healthcare, Bucks County, PAand Charlotte Collier, Ph.d., Clinical Lead,Pennsylvania State Assessment Project


Program




] Clinical Cases

1 Education

Research





7:008:00 am

Una Reunin Con Otros Compaeros De

Habla Hispana O Quienes Trabajan Con

Familias De Habla Hispana

A Meeting or Spanish Speaking

Participants and Those Who Work with

Spanish Speaking Families

Se le invita cordialmente a una reunin conotros compaeros de habla hispana a quienestrabajan con amilas de habla hispana. Venga acompartir sus ideas de como seguir llevando elmensaje del Juego Circular a esta poblacion.

You are invited to a meeting or those whospeak Spanish or work with amilies whoare Spanish speaking. Join us to shareyour thoughts on how to continue to bringFloortime to Spanish speakers.

7:30 am

Registration Opens

8:008:45 am

A Bioethical Approach to Overcoming

Problems with Aggression and

Misbehavior in Schools

Stanley Greenspan, M.d., Clinical Proessor oPsychiatry, Behavioral Sciences and Pediatrics,George Washington University

8:459:30 am

Symbolic Play: The Pathway to

Supporting Emotional Capacities Related

to Aggression and Anxiety

Serena Wieer, Ph.d., Associate Chair

and Director, DIR Institute, ICDL, ClinicalPsychologist, Silver Spring, MD

9:30 am10:30 am

Ethical Issues in the Education o

Children with Autism

Glenn McGee, Ph.d., Editor-in-Chie, TheAmercan Journal o Boethcs, Co-Director,States & Bioethics Program, Rockeeller Instituteo Government, SUNY, Clinical AssociateProessor o Health Policy & Management, SUNYCollege o Public Health

10:3011:00 am

Morning Break

11:00 am12:00 Noon

Comprehensive Assessment as a Preventative

Means o Reducing Behavioral Concerns in

the Home, School and Community

Ruby Moye Salazar, L.C.S.W., B.C.d., ClinicalSocial Worker, Salazar Associates, ClarksSummit, PA, Bernar McBrie, Director oBehavioral Healthcare, Bucks County, PA, andJohn McGonigal, Ph.d., Assistant Proessoro Psychiatry and Rehabilitation Science andTechnology, University o Pittsburgh MedicalCenter, Program Director, Center or Autism andDevelopmental Disorders, Western PsychiatricInstitute and Clinic

12:00 12:30 pm

Building Foundations or the Future:

Reections and Concluding Remarks

T. Berry Brazelton, M.d., Proessor oPediatrics, Emeritus, and Joshua Sparrow,M.d., Assistant Proessor o Psychiatry, HarvardUniversity Medical School

12:30 pm

Conerence Concludes


Program

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 9

A Bioethical Approach to Overcoming Problems with Behavior &

Aggression in the Education o Children with ASD

R Picture Books and Floortime

Picture books enrich childrens understandingabout their world and their relationshipswithin it. This presentation will consider some

o the best picture books and discuss themrom a developmental and psychodynamicperspective, looking closely at their themes anddiscussing their utility to children at dierentdevelopmental levels.

Stephanie Pass, Ph.d., Psychologist, SanFrancisco, CA and Rebecca ShahmoonShanok, LCSW, Ph.d., Director, Institute orInants, Children and Families, Jewish Board oFamily and Childrens Services, NY, NY

R The PLAY Project

This session will include an overview o thePLAY Project Home Consultation model, a

practical, parent training application o DIR. Itwill also review the research evidence publishedin the May 2007 issue oAutsm, a peerreviewed, scientifc journal, in an article entitled,Plot study o a parent tranng program or

young chldren wth autsm: The PLAY Project

Home Consultaton program. (Vol 11(3) 205-224). A review o the scientifc literature onsocial-pragmatic (i.e. play-based) interventions

or young children with autism will also bepresented.

Richar Solomon, M.d., Medical Director, AnnArbor Center or Developmental and BehavioralPediatrics, Ann Arbor, MI

Pulling the Pieces Together: Praxis,

Learning and Frontal Lobe Function

in Young Children with ASD and other

Neurogenetic Disorders

Focusing on the intricate relationship betweenpraxis, learning and rontal lobe unctionin inants and children with ASD and otherneurogenetic disorders, this seminar will

discuss how a common but unknown sexchromosome disorder reveals the very earlysigns o dyspraxia and rontal dysunction asearly as our months o age. This dysunctioncan aect all domains o development and

recovery can be quite eective with targetedtreatment and syndrome specifc goals.

Carole Samango-Sprouse, E.d., Director,Neurodevelopmental Diagnostic Center orYoung Children, Associate Clinical Proessorin the Department o Pediatrics, GeorgeWashington University, Washington, DC andRicki Robinson, M.d., MPH, Clinical Proessoro Pediatrics, Keck School o Medicine,University o Southern Caliornia

R Sensory Motor and Regulatory

Treatment

This presentation will explore and integratecurrent thinking about sensory processing,sensory reactivity, sensory modulation, andthe intersection between regulation and motorplanning with the DIR model. Participants will

be exposed to the concepts o sel-regulationand co-regulation to help oster the ft betweenthe child and the adult.

Milagros Corero, E.d., OTR/L, ExecutiveDirector, ITTs or Children, Atlanta, GA


Program




] Clinical Cases

1 Education

Research




Pre-Conerence WorkshopsThursday, November 6

1:308:30 pm

(there will be a break or dinner)1Floortime or Novice Players

This workshop is designed or parents,proessional newcomers and others who workwith children with regulatory and developmentalchallenges as school aides and in home programs.

Aect-based approaches will illustrate howto encourage developmentally appropriateinteractions or children with various sensory anddevelopmental profles, maintain a continuousow o interactions, open and close circles ocommunication, encourage initiative, purposeulbehavior, shared attention, engagement, problemsolving, symbolic play and abstract thinking. Dayto day behavior challenges will be addressed,

including rustration, tantrums, aggression, earsand anxiety. Family based DIR intervention orearly signs o developmental concerns as well asworking with children and amilies moving intomore abstract and representational thinking willbe covered. Attention will be given to flling ingaps in developmental levels. Videos will be usedto illustrate parent child interactions and parentcoaching. This workshop will also integrate theimpact on amilies as they come to grips withtheir childrens challenges and how to supportthe reorganization and eorts o the amily toimplement eective intervention to build capacitiesor relating, communicating and thinking.

Faculty: Barbara Kalmanson, Ph.d., ClinicalPsychologist and Special Educator, SanFrancisco, CA and Molly Romer Witten, Ph.d.,Clinical Psychologist, Chicago, IL

To regster or ths Workshop, selectFloortimeor Novice Players on your Regstraton Form

1:308:30 pm

(there will be a break or dinner)

2Sensory Organization and the

Developmental, Individual Dierence,

Relationship-Based (DIR) Model

Understanding the childs sensory profleis essential or all interactions and learning.

This workshop will examine the sensorymodulation continuum o sensory registrationand response to stimuli and how it inuencesbehavior, attention, impulse control, posturalcontrol, motor control, and unctional skills. Itwill address motor planning, the core capacitynecessary or sequencing interactions withpeople and objects, as well as building bridgesbetween ideas and abstract thought. Using caseillustrations, the workshop will highlight how touse the FEAS (Functional Emotional AssessmentScale) to understand the childs sensory profle,guide treatment and provide parent coaching.

Faculty: Rosemary White, OTR/L, Director,Pediatric Physical and Occupational TherapyServices, Seattle, WA

To regster or ths Workshop, select SensoryOrganization on your Regstraton Form

1:304:30 pm

3Communication Through the DIR

Lens: A Tool Kit o Ideas and Strategies

This workshop will explore the complex issueso communication as seen through the DIRmodel. Particular emphasis will be placed ontypical development, aect cueing, non-verbalgestures, receptive language and the Red Flagsand the Tools to address them. The need ormodifcation o traditional language interventionstrategies or children with challenges in aectivedevelopment and varied sensory profles will be

illustrated through videotape presentations.

Faculty: Sherri Cawn, M.A., CCC-SLP,Speech-Language Pathologist/Early ChildhoodSpecialist, Private Practice, Northbrook, IL, andCiny Harrison, M.Sc., Reg. CASLPO, Speech-Language Pathologist, Private Practice, Ottawa,Ontario

To regster or ths Workshop, select

Communication Through the DIR Lens onyour Regstraton Form

1:30-4:30 pm

4The DIR and IEP Goal Bank

This workshop will illustrate how to identiyand select specifc DIR educational goals ora range o children or use in school settings.This new goal bank will provide an importantresource or educators and parents to articulategoals which support the scope, sequence andintegration o DIR capacities to establish theoundations or successul learning. These goalscan be applied in regular and inclusion programsas well as in special education in public andprivate settings. The goals provide direction,benchmarks, and tools to support and ensureaccountability among school personnel. Casestudies will be used to demonstrate how to useIEP goals to represent the critical elements ocomprehensive programs or children within theDIR ramework in various settings.

Faculty: Monica Osgoo, Founder/ExecutiveDirector, and Lauren Blaszak, Founder/Director,Celebrate the Children, Wharton, NJ

To regster or ths Workshop, selectDIR and

IEP on your Regstraton Form

5:308:30 pm

5The Aect-Based Language

Curriculum (ABLC): An Intensive

Program or Parents, Therapists and

Teachers

In this workshop, the principles o The Aect-Based Language Curriculum (ABLC) will bediscussed. Participants will learn the terminologyand how to use this dynamic curriculum in home,school and therapy settings. The presenter willreview implementation o the Checklists andhow to select Systematic Instruction and AppliedFloortime goals. Sensory-Motor, Oral Motorand Augmentative Communication activities todevelop language will be reviewed. This will bean opportunity to learn about the innovations inthe Second Edition which include Foundation

Activities with Expanded Elicitations or every skill

in all o the Levels and the accompanying AppliedFloortime examples. The Second Editionhas additional chapters on support groups andimplementation o the ABLC within the schoolsetting. Videotapes illustrate actual case studies inone to one settings, dyads and triads.

Faculty: diane Lewis, MA/CCC-SLP, Directoro Communication Enrichment Services inBethesda, MD

To regster or ths Workshop, selectABLC onyour Regstraton Form

5:308:30 pm

6DIR Programs or Pre-School and

Elementary Age Children

This workshop will outline pre-school andelementary age programs in private andpublic schools, ocusing on building strongoundations or social and academic success:How does working on regulation, engagement,intentionality, problem solving, symbolic,emotional and abstract thinking support overallsuccess? Specifc developmental and academicstrategies that encourage students to use a widerange o capacities will be illustrated throughvideo. The workshop will also highlight how toorganize the school day to meet the individualneeds o each child, the criteria or readiness tolearn in groups, how to balance child led and

semi-structured activities, keeping the ocus onrelating and emotional thinking, applications indierent school systems and the importance oincluding parents. Connecting DIR work to statestandards will be addressed and specifc lessonplans shared. Additionally, the importance oongoing sta training, reective supervision andincentives in the school setting will be outlined.

Faculty: Monica Osgoo, Founder/ExecutiveDirector, and Lauren Blaszak, Founder/Director,Celebrate the Children, Wharton, NJ

To regster or ths Workshop, selectDIRPrograms or Pre-School and Elementaryonyour Regstraton Form


Program

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6

Pre-Conerence Workshops

Workshop space is limited, so we encourage you to register early.

You will receive an email confrmation o your workshop selections.




Program

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6

Pre-Conerence Workshops (continued)

5:308:30 pm

7Medication in the Treatment o

Developmental and Learning Disorders

This workshop will present an overview o theuse o medication as part o a comprehensivetreatment approach. Specifc classes omedications and their use or specifc targetsymptoms will be reviewed and a variety oclinical examples and profles will be included.

Faculty: Joshua Feer, M.d., Child and FamilyPsychiatry, Solana Beach, CA


Medication on your Regstraton Form

5:308:30 pm

8Representing Cognition in DIR:

Insights into Language Impairment and

Visual Spatial Processing Challenges

This presentation will examine the defnitiono cognition, which remains a uzzy one, anddip into the long running debate regarding therelationship between language, visual spatialprocessing and cognition. The representation ocognition, which weaves itsel throughout DIR,will be highlighted. An analysis o video clipswill ocus on the interace between cognition,language impairment and visual spatialchallenges with attention to implications or DIRintervention.

Faculty: Gilbert Foley, E.d., AssociateProessor, Ferkau Graduate School oPsychology, Yeshiva University, Sima Gerber,

Ph.d., CCC, Proessor o CommunicationDisorders, Queens College, CUNY, SerenaWieer, Ph.d., Associate Chair, ICDL andDirector, DIR Institute, Clinical Psychologist,Silver Spring, MD


Representing Cognition in DIR on yourRegstraton Form

5:308:30 pm

9Using the DIR Approach in Feeding

Therapy

Feeding concerns are oten multi-aceted, andmay include oral-motor defcits, dysphagia,sensory processing challenges, GI, allergyand medical issues, nutritional and growthactors and primary or secondary challengesto behavioral interaction patterns. The DIRapproach provides a ramework or integratingthese multiple acets, while maintaining aocus on the core interaction between parentand child. This ramework is useul or all othe various disciplines that may be involved ineeding therapy. This workshop will ocus onhow the DIR ramework can help to guide thetherapeutic process or eeding.

Faculty: diane Cullinane, M.d., Developmental

Pediatrician, Executive Director, Patricia Novak,MPH, Rd, CLE, Pediatric Registered Dietitianand Karla Auserau, MA, OTR/L, OccupationalTherapist, Pasadena Child Development

Associates, Inc., Pasadena, CA

To regster or ths Workshop, select Using theDIR Approach in Feeding Therapyon yourRegstraton Form

ICDL 12th Annual Conerence

n nn

GLIMPSE is Seeking Submissions!

GLiMPSEis a new publication o ICDL that will showcase the unique perspective contained in the writings and artwork o individuals with ahistory o autism and other developmental and learning disorders. We are seeking poetry, essays, reections, short stories, photography, andtwo-dimensional artwork on any subject, so that we may gain a GLiMPSEinto the rich inner l ie o these individuals. We are seeking work romindividuals o all ages.

Submission guidelines, editorial policy, and inormation about the editors can be ound at www.icdl.com.

All Conerence and Workshop Sessions

will be held at the

Hilton McLean Tysons Corner

7920 Jones Branch Drive

McLean, Virginia 22102

703-847-5000 (phone), 703-761-5100 (fax)

Reservations: 703-761-5111 or www.mclean.hilton.com (Use the group code ICd whenmaking your reservations online.)

The Hilton McLean is located in the heart oTysons Corner, minutes rom Washington,DC. The hotel provides complimentarytransportation to the large neighboring malls.

Reservations

A limited block o rooms at the conerencerate o $122 single/double (Thursday, Friday,Saturday and Sunday nights, 11/6 through 11/9)or $209 (Wednesday 11/5 and Monday, 11/10)has been set-aside or registrants until October16. When making your reservation, reer to theInterdisciplinary Council on Developmental andLearning Disorders (ICDL) in order to get thespecial group rate. Reservations will be madeon a space-available basis, so call early.

Directions/Transportation rom Airports

The Hilton McLean Tysons Corner is locatedjust o I-495, the Washington Beltway. Theclosest Metro stop is West Falls Church,on the Orange Line. It is 20 minutes romWashington Dulles and Washington ReaganNational Airports and 45 minutes rom BaltimoreWashington International Airport. Detaileddirections to the hotel are available rom thehotel and at www.hilton.com. Transportationrom the airports to the hotel is availableby taxi or rom Super Shuttle van service.Super Shuttle vans can be ound at groundtransportation stands at each airport.

Hotel & Travel

Workshop Handouts will beposted on the ICDL website.

Your workshop registration

confrmation will contain a link

to view and print the handouts.




2008 Conerence Facultyn nn

Carla Auserau, MA, OTR/LOccupational Therapist, Pasadena ChildDevelopment Associates, Inc., CA

Ron Balamuth, Ph.d.

Clinical Psychologist, NY, NYLois Black, Ph.d.

Associate Scientist, Center or SpokenLanguage and Understanding, Oregon Health

And Science University

Lauren BlaszakFounder/ Director, Celebrate the Children,Wharton, NJ

Tim BleeckerCo-Director, DIR Support Services,Bethesda, MD

T. Berry Brazelton, M.d.Proessor o Pediatrics, Emeritus, HarvardUniversity Medical School

Cecilia Breinbauer, M.d., MPHChild Psychiatrist, Potomac, MD, ManagingDirector, ICDL Graduate School

devin Casenhiser, Ph.d.Head o Research, Milton and Ethel HarrisResearch Initiative (MEHRI), York University

Sherri Cawn, M.A., CCC-SLPSpeech-Language Pathologist/Early ChildhoodSpecialist, Northbrook, IL

Charlotte Collier, Ph.d.Clinical Director, Pennsylvania State

Assessment Project

Milagros Corero, E.d., OTR/LExecutive Director, ITTs or Children,

Atlanta, GA

Gerry Costa, Ph.d.Director, YCS Institute or Inant and PreschoolMental Health, East Orange, NJ

diane Cullinane, M.d.Developmental Pediatrician, Executive Director,Pasadena Child Development Associates, Inc.,CA

Gri doyle, Ph.d.Clinical Psychologist, Bethesda, MD

Lisa e Faria, LCSW, BCdClinical Social Worker, Scotts Valley andMonterey, CA

Elizabeth dulin, M.E.Education Director, The Lionheart School,

Atlanta, GAJoshua Feer, M.d.Child and Family Psychiatry, Solana Beach, CA

Gil Foley, E.d.Associate Proessor, Ferkau Graduate Schoolo Psychology, Yeshiva University

Sima Gerber, Ph.d.Proessor o Communication Disorders,Queens College, CUNY

Lois Gol, OTR/LOccupational Therapist, Center or PediatricTherapy, Miami, FL

Ira Glovinsky, Ph.d.Clinical Psychologist, Ann Arbor, MI

Jacob GreenspanCo-Director, DIR Support Services,

Bethesda, MDStanley Greenspan, M.d.Chair, ICDL, Clinical Proessor o Psychiatry,Behavioral Science and Pediatrics, GeorgeWashington University

Elaine HallFounder and Director, The Miracle Project

Ciny Harrison, M.Sc., Reg. CASLPOSpeech-Language Pathologist, Private Practice,Ottawa, Ontario

Michele Havens, E.d.DIR Director, Imagine Academy, Brooklyn,NY and Educational Consultant and Parent

Advocate in Private Practice

Barbara Kalmanson, Ph.d.Clinical Psychologist and Special Educator, SanFrancisco, CA, Dean , ICDL Graduate School

Richar Kelley, M.d., Ph.d.Proessor o Pediatrics,Johns Hopkins University

diane Lewis, M.A., CCC/SLPDirector, Communication Enrichment Services,Bethesda, MD

Beth Malow, M.d.Associate Proessor o Neurology and Director,Vanderbilt Sleep Center

Cheryl MartinezFounder and Director, CCF Parent Advocacyand Consulting, LLC, Hazlet, NJ

Sonia MastrangeloMilton and Ethel Harris Research Initiative(MEHRI), York University

Bernar McBrieDirector o Behavioral Healthcare,Bucks County, PA

Karen McdowellHead Teacher, Celebrate the Children,Wharton, NJ

Glenn McGee, Ph.d.Editor-in-Chie, The American Journal oBioethics, Co-Director, States & BioethicsProgram, Rockeeller Institute o Government,SUNY, Clinical Associate Proessor o HealthPolicy & Management, SUNY College o Public

Health

John McGonigal, Ph.dAssistant Proessor o Psychiatry andRehabilitation Science and Technology,University o Pittsburgh Medical Center,Program Director, Center or Autism andDevelopmental Disorders, WesternPsychiatric Institute and Clinic

dave Nelson, LPCDirector, The Community School, Atlanta, GA

Patricia Novak, MPH, Rd, CLEPediatric Registered Dietician, Pasadena ChildDevelopment Associates, Inc., CA

Monica OsgooFounder/Executive Director, Celebrate theChildren, Wharton, NJ,

Beth Osten, M.S., OTR/L

Director, Beth Osten & Associates, Skokie, ILStephanie Pass, Ph.d.Clinical Psychologist, San Francisco, CA

Michele Ricamoto, M.A., CCC/SLPSpeech Language Pathologist, Chicago, IL

Ricki Robinson, M.d., MPHClinical Proessor o Pediatrics, Keck School oMedicine, University o Southern Caliornia

Molly Romer Witten, Ph.d.Clinical Psychologist, Chicago, IL

Ruby Moy e Salazar, LCSW, BCdClinical Social Worker, Salazar Associates,Clarks Summit, PA

Carole Samango-Sprouse, E.d.Director, Neurodevelopmental DiagnosticCenter or Young Children, Associate ClinicalProessor, Department o Pediatrics, GeorgeWashington University, Washington, DC

diane Selinger, Ph.d.Clinical Psychologist, Glenview, IL

Rebecca Shahmoon Shanok, LCSW, Ph.d.Director, Institute or Inants, Children andFamilies, Jewish Board o Family andChildrens Services, NY, NY

Stuart Shanker, d. Phil.Proessor o Philosophy and Psychology,York University

Richar Solomon, M.d.

Medical Director, Ann Arbor Center orDevelopmental and Behavioral Pediatrics,Ann Arbor, MI

Joshua Sparrow, M.d.Assistant Proessor o Psychiatry, HarvardUniversity Medical School

Sarah Spence, M.d., Ph.d.Sta Clinician, Pediatrics and DevelopmentalNeuropsychiatry Branch, National Institute oMental Health, Bethesda, MD

Jim Stieben, Ph.d.Senior Research Scientist, Milton and EthelHarris Research Initiative (MEHRI), YorkUniversity

Gil Tippy, Psy.d.

Clinical Director, The Rebecca School,Brooklyn, NY

Bobbi Wae, MAT, CCC/SLPSpeech Language Pathologist, Alexandria, VA

Rosemary White, OTR/LDirector, Pediatric Physical and OccupationalTherapy Services, Seattle, WA

Serena Wieer, Ph.d.,Associate Chair, ICDL, and Director, DIRInstitute, CEO, ICDL Graduate SchoolClinical Psychologist, Silver Spring, MD



ICDL Announces Ph.D. ProgramIn Inant and Early Childhood Mental Health and

Developmental Disorders

Our Goal

The signifcant advances in our understandingo inants, young children, and their amiliesover the past 30 years have created a newoundation or research and clinical practice.The combination o online courses, supervisedpracticum and the dissertation will provideopportunities or students to learn and applya growing body o knowledge emerging rommultiple disciplines. Our goal is to enable

students to master the insights o each othe contributing disciplines, understandthe range and variations o healthy anddisordered unctioning in the early yearso lie, implement a unied developmental

approach to research and clinical practice,and serve as leaders or uture generations.

In January 2008, the Interdisciplinary Council on Developmental and Learning Disorders

(ICDL) launched the ICdL Grauate School, oering a Phd program in Inant an

Early Chilhoo Mental Health an developmental disorers through a distance

learning ormat or qualifed applicants throughout the United States and abroad.

The frst group o students began classes in January 2008 and the second group will begin

in September 2008. Applications are currently being considered or the September 2009

class and are reviewed as they are submitted.

For a detailed description of the

program, including curriculum, admission

requirements, tuition, and application

information, please visit www.icdl.com.Visit www.icdl.com or detai led inormation on the new ICDL Ph.D. program!

Visit www.icdl.com or details.

The Curriculum

A dynamic bio-psychosocial developmental approach guides the curriculum. It includes knowledgerom all the disciplines that contribute to understanding early human development and its disordersincluding; emotional and social development, cognitive and language unctioning, perceptualmotor and sensory unctioning, neurobiology, caregiver/child interaction patterns, amily patterns,psychopathology, and the larger community and cultural contexts.

Interactive Distance (Online) Education Format

Students will have access to distance learning via online classes by logging onto the ICDL VirtualClassroom, a private interactive web platorm housed on the ICDL website. The website platormwill include all the course materials or which the student has registered, as well as interactivetools such as discussion orums and online chatting. This fexible, innovative, long distancecurriculum will allow students to adjust their studies to their own daily schedule, an essentialcharacteristic o a successul adult learning model.

The DIR/Floortime Institute

Celebrates its 10th AnniversaryWe invite you to join us!

Tuesday, July 7 ~ Saturday, July 11, 2009Asilomar Conerence Grounds, Pacifc Grove, Caliornia. www.VisitAsilomar.com

We are pleased to announce the DIR Institutewill head west or the second time to thehistoric Asilomar Conerence Grounds inbeautiul Pacifc Grove, Caliornia. The naturalsurroundings and comortable accommodationsoer ample space and time or reection,discussion and connection among DIR

colleagues, new and old.

This year will eature special presentations andactivities to celebrate our 10th Anniversary.We know youll fnd the experience intensive,rich, rewarding and unand youll make manynew riends among the amazing and talentedproessionals youll meet rom around thecountry and around the world.

Be sure to register early as this special year willfll quickly and spaces are limited at this site.

DIRB

Beginning

Practitioners

DIRC

Clinical Specialist

and Educator

Certifcate Program

DIRA

Administrators

Program

For those beginning to

integrate DIR practice intotheir disciplines who havecompleted introductorycourses and want more in-depth training to expand theirexperience. This programprepares you or the DIRClinical Specialist/ EducatorCertifcate Program.

For experienced DIR

clinicians and educatorsprepared to demonstratecompetencies in DIRprinciples and practices intheir existing disciplines.Includes assessment andintervention. Obtainingthe Certifcate can leadto consulting and traineropportunities.

For administrators o DIR

based educational servicesincluding birth to three,pre-school and school agedprograms.

This program can beattended simultaneously withthe DIRB or DIRC programsor qualifed candidates.




ICDL Books and Videosn nn

Children and Babies with Mood

Swings: New Insights or Parents

and Proessionals

By Stanley I. Greenspan, M.D.,

Ira Glovinsky, Ph.D., and Cindy Glovinsky

Addressing the challenges o living witha child whose moods are extreme and

unpredictable, this book transcends

traditional tendencies and diagnoses

by discussing mood swings in terms o

how they develop, instead o presenting

the reader with the usual list o symp-

toms and treatments. The complex

interplay between childrens emotional

states and the various developmental

milestones that lie along the pathway to

adulthood are described, oering hope

to parents by giving them a whole new

way o looking at an old problem that

paradoxically seems to be increasing in

modern times.

ICDL Member $20.50

Non-Member $24.95

The Aect-Based Language

Curriculum (ABLC): An Intensive

Program or Families, Therapists

and Teachers. 2nd Edition

By Stanley Greenspan, M.D.

and Diane Lewis, M.A, CCC-SLP.

An innovative approach to the devel-

opment o language that integrates

the aect based model o human

development, developed by Stanley

I. Greenspan, M.D. (e.g. the Floortime

Model), with the development o recep-

tive and expressive language, imitation,

pragmatics, and engagement. The

curriculum incorporates the principles

o Systematic Instruction and AppliedFloortime as the primary teaching

strategies. It also includes supple-

mental oral motor and augmentative

communication techniques that support

the development o language. The new,

Second Edition, includes updated and

revised chapters as well as several new

sections It also includes a CD with all

Checklists, Tracking Forms, Systematic

Instruction Skills and Applied Floortime

Activities in Microsot Word ormat or

easy application.

ICDL Member $47.50

Non-Member $52.50

Clinical Practice Guidelines:

Redefning the Standards o Careor Inants, Children, and Families

with Special Needs

For proessional, parents and others

concerned with improving the care

o children with developmental and

learning disorders. The Guidelines are

available on our website, www.icdl.com

and or purchase.

ICDL Member $28.00

Non-Member $35.00

Diagnostic Manual or Inancy

and Early Childhood (ICDL-DMIC)

The frst comprehensive, developmen-

tally based classifcation system or

neurodevelopmental (including autism

spectrum), mental health, regulatory-sensory processing, and language

disorders and learning challenges in the

earliest years o lie. The ICDL-DMIC

opens a new era in our approach to in-

ants, young children, and their amilies

an approach based on understand-

ing developmental pathways and dy-

namic processes essential or modern

diagnostic and treatment programs.

ICDL Member $27.50

Non-Member $29.50

El Nio con Necesidades Especiales:

Estimulando el Crecimiento

Intelectual y Emocional

Stanley I Greenspan, M.D. & Serena

Wieder, Ph.D. con Robin SimonsThe Chld wth Specal Needs. Copy-

right 1998. First published in the U.S. by

Da Capo Press, a subsidiary of Perseus

Books, L.L.C

Un enoque integral para abordar

desaos del desarrollo, incluyendo

autismo, trastorno generalizados del

desarrollo, problemas del habla y del

lenguaje, sndrome de Down, parlisi

cerebral, dfcit de atencin, y otros

trastornos asociados. Basado en ms

de dos dcadas de experiencia clnica

e investigacin en discapacidades del

desarrollo, el contenido de este libro

ayuda a padres y proesionales a ir ms

all de los rtulos diagnsticos y poder

entender el perfl individual de cadanio. Los novedosos aportes de los

autores a la comprensin del desarrollo

humano y del aprendizaje les ha per-

mitido crear un enoque paso a paso

de cmo promover y mantener el logro

de importantes hitos del desarrollo.

ICDL Member $40.00

Non-Member $45.00

Floortime DVD Training Series

Meant to supplement the childs work

with proessionals, the Floortime DVD

Training Series shows parents how to

use the Floortime approach to help their

child relate and communicate. The

Floortime DVD Training series, is avail-

able in three DVD sets. Each DVD seteatures interviews o Drs. Greenspan

and Wieder; video o them working with

individual children and their parents

to demonstrate how to put Floortime

principles into action; and a supplemen-

tary guide with transcripts, inormation

about the Floortime approach and a

parent questionnaire.

n The Bascs: Relatng and Com-

muncatng, shows parents how to

interact with their child to support his

development, rom shared attention and

engagement to interaction and more

advanced communication.

n Sensory Regulaton and Socal interac-

ton, shows parents how to help a child

overcome challenges o sensory regula-

tion that interere with his ability to relate

and communicate, enabling him to reach

higher developmental levels, includingsocial interaction and pretend play.

n Symbolc and Logcal Thnkng,

shows parents how to use pretend play

to help their child create and connect

ideas, and to think logically.

Price per set: ICDL Member $79.95

Non-Member $88.95

The Functional Emotional

Assessment Scale (FEAS)

For Inancy and Early Childhood:

Clinical and Research Applications

By Stanley I. Greenspan, M.D., Georgia De-

Gangi, Ph.D., OTR & Serena Wieder, Ph.D.

A systematic in depth approach to

assessing emotional unctioning during

inancy and early childhood. It enablesclinicians, educators and caregivers to

assess the childs unctional, emotional,

developmental level and create a treat-

ment plan based on the childs individual

profle and measure their progress. The

FEAS not only delineates the emotional

unctioning o the inant and child but

captures the richness o the interactions

between the child and his caregivers.

ICDL Member $32.00

Non-Member $39.50

The Journal o Developmental

Processes

The Journal o Developmental Processes

(JDP) ocuses on the complex and

dynamic biological, social, and culturalaspects o developmental systems in

humans and other animals. It is jointly

sponsored by ICDL, The Council on Hu-

man Development (www.councilhd.ca)

and the Milton and Ethel Harris Research

Initiative (www.mehri.ca) and includes all

the disciplines that contribute to our un-

derstanding o human development, the

actors that inuence it, the mechanisms

through which they work, and the enor-

mous variations observed throughout the

course o lie. The JDP embraces clinical

studies and case descriptions in keeping

with the traditions established by its

predecessor, the Journal o Develop-

mental and Learning Disorders. It also,

however, ocuses on a broad range ostudies and narratives that are necessary

or a ull understanding o developmental

processes.

Visit www.icl.com to access the

online version o the JDP

The JDP invites submissions. Queries

and submissions on clinical aspects

and applications should be directed

to [email protected]; all other queres

and submssons, and books or po-

tental revew, should go to Edtor Gal

Melson at [email protected]).

Training Videotapes on the DIR

Model and Floortime Techniques

This 13 tape series, nearly 20 hours in

length, eatures Stanley I. Greenspan,

M.D. and Serena Wieder, Ph.D. demon-

strating the Developmental, IndividualDierence, Relationship-Based (DIR)

model and Floor Time strategies or di-

erent types o children and amilies with

special needs. Included with the videos

is a guide highlighting what to look or

in each o the tapes.

DVD Version: ICDL Member $225

Non-Member $255

VHS Version: ICDL Member $175

Non-Member $195

Bipolar Patterns in Children:

New Perspectives on Developmental

Pathways and a Comprehensive

Approach to Prevention and

Treatment

By Stanley I. Greenspan, M.D.and Ira Glovinsky, Ph.D.

A developmental bio-psychosocial

ramework or the early identifcation,

assessment, preventative intervention,

and treatment o children with bipolar

patterns.

ICDL Member $25.50

Non-Member $32.50

The Psychology o Global

Interdependency; A Framework

or International Collaboration

By Stanley I. Greenspan, M.D.

and Stuart Shanker, D.Phil.

An examination o the new psychologi-

cal challenges created by our growing

interdependency, with a series o practicasuggestions that will enable groups to

work together to preserve civilization and

create a uture o peace and cooperation.

ICDL Member $12.00

Non Member $16.00

For Parents by Parents

A resource guide or parents and proes-

sionals to aid parents as they search

or assistance or their special needs

children, written by The Parent Steering

Committee o The Interdisciplinary Coun-

cil on Developmental and Learning Disor-

ders (ICDL). Inormation is presented in

tabbed sections: Overview, Therapeutic

Approaches, Biomedical Interventions,

Sensory Processing, Educational Inter-ventions, Law and Advocacy, Implement-

ing a Home Program and Glossary.

ICDL Member $25.00

Non-Member $29.00

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The Interisciplinary Council on developmental anLearning disorers (ICDL) is a non-proft organizationdedicated to improving the prevention, assessment,

diagnosis and treatment o emotional and developmentaldisorders in inancy and childhood by promoting dialogueand integrating knowledge rom dierent disciplines.

Founded by Stanley Greenspan, MD, and Serena Wieder,PhD., ICDL reaches a wide network o parents andproessionals o dierent disciplines in every state andin more than 80 countries on all continents. Throughits research, training and publications, ICDL extends

knowledge o developmental processes and provides aramework (DIR/Floortime Model) or understandingand improving interventions with inants, children and

adults with challenges in relating, communicating andthinking, including autism spectrum disorders.

Become a Member!Help ensure urther development o nnovatve approaches

to the preventon, dentfcaton, treatment and educaton

o nants and chldren wth emotonal and developmental

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Attend annual meetings at a reducedmembers only registration ee

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Proessional Membership $50 per year: All o thebenefts listed above.

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Stuent Membership $35 per year (ull-time students only): All o the beneftslisted above.

Organizational Membership $200 per year: All o the benefts listed above, plus theright to register our members o your organization atthe members only registration ee, access to the onlineversion o the Journal o Developmental Processes, andan additional 20% discount on all ICDL publications andvideotapes. For more inormation on this membershipcategory, contact [email protected].

ICDL Website

and Electronic Newsletter

Training and Education Programs

Regional, National and

International Networks

Publications

Research

Inant Mental Health

As an ICDL member you will:

Membership Categories and Fees

Directory

The Interdisciplinary Council on Developmental andLearning Disorders (ICDL) is developing a directory oindividuals with an interest in DIR/Floortime. TheDirectory will become a part o the ICDL website(www.icdl.com) and will be organized geographically. It

will enable individuals who have expressed an interest inDIR/Floortime, by attending a conerence or trainingprogram, to identiy and network with others rom their citystate or country with a similar interest. We would like toinclude your name in the Directory.

Your membership and donations will help support the ollowing initiatives:

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ICDL Conerence: Nov. 69, 2008Use this orm to register or the conerence, to join ICDL and add your name to the

ICDL directory. (NOTE: i you are paying with a credit card you may do all o the

above at www.icdl.com.)

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is eveloping a irectory o iniviuals with an interest in dIR/Floortime.

Check here i you are not attending the conerence, but wish to be included

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Membership Fee* (per year) Proessional: $50.00 Parent: $35.00

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Conerence Registration Fee (check one)

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Members

Pre-Conference WorkshopsThursday, November 6

1Floortime or Novice Players 1:308:30 pm $185 $210

2Sensory Organization 1:308:30 pm $185 $210

3Communication Through the

DIR Lens1:304:30 pm $105 $120

4The DIR and IEP 1:304:30 pm $105 $120

5ABLC 5:308:30 pm $105 $120

6DIR Programs or Pre-School

and Elementary5:308:30 pm $105 $120

7Medication 5:308:30 pm $105 $120

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9Using the DIR Approach in

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Redefning the Potential or Emotional and Social Functioning

In Children with Autism and Special Needs

November 7, 8, and 9, 2008 n Hilton McLean, Tysons Corner, Virginia (Washington, DC Metro Area)

1 2 t h A n n u A l I n t e r n A t I o n A l C o n F e r e n C e

Presentations by T. Berry Brazelton, M.d., Proessor o Pediatrics Emeritus, Harvard University Medical School, Stanley Greenspan, M.d., Clinical Proessor o Psychiatry,

Behavioral Science and Pediatrics, George Washington University, Serena Wieer, Ph.d., Clinical Psychologist and CEO, ICDL Graduate School, Ricki Robinson, M.d., MPH,

Clinical Proessor o Pediatrics, Keck School o Medicine, USC, Glenn McGee, Ph.d., Editor-in-Chie, The American Journal o Bioethics, Stuart Shanker, d. Phil., Proessor o

Philosophy and Psychology, York University, Joshua Sparrow, M.d., Assistant Proessor o Psychiatry, Harvard University Medical School, Richar Kelley, M.d., Proessor o

Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins University, Sarah Spence, M.d., National Institute o Mental Health, Beth Malow, M.d., Associate Proessor o Neurology, Vanderbilt University and

others. Complete list o workshops and speakers inside.

Interdisciplinary Council on

Developmental and Learning Disorders

4938 Hampden Lane, Suite 800

Bethesda, Md 20814

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Concurrent Aternoon Seminars Friday and Saturday, November 7 & 8Pre-Conerence WorkshopsThursday, November 6

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