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All children have within them the potential to be great kids.

It's our job to create a great world where this potential can flourish.

Stanley Greenspan,MD - Great Kids, 2007.

The Interdisciplinary Council on Developmental and Learning Disorders (ICDL) offers many opportunities to learn how to create a great world for all children and adults, including those with autism and other special needs.

 
Learning Opportunities

NEW! ICDL Webinars!

Did you miss our latest webinar on May 28, 2013: Difference Is What Unites Us?

Did you miss any of the previous ICDL Webinars?  Now you can have year long access to a collection of recorded webinars AND help support our effort to bring valuable training experiences around the world!
View our series of "DIRFloortime in Schools," "Research in Action," and other valuable webinars, including past webinars offered since 2009 and future webinars to be offered in 2013*.  Click on the link to the right and register for just $25/year!

icdl webinars

icdl webinars

The Power of Affect! 2012 ICDL Annual Conference - Online Edition!

    Join us for three information-packed days highlighting DIRFloortime, Neurodiversity, & Mindsight

NEW DIRFloortimeTraining Program
is available for anyone who wants to become a DIRFloortime provider. Read more

    It's not too late! 2013 Trimester 2 courses are just starting!

PhD in Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health and Developmental Disorders

    Find out more about our program and the almost 90 students from around the world that are currently registered.

 
Research & Advocacy

Scientific and empirical evidence supporting the
DIR®Model and Floortime Intervention


We are pleased to share with you three new studies that bring more evidence of how effective, and culturally appropriate, DIRFloortime in helping children and families around the world:

  • CANADA: Casenhiser D.M., Shanker, S., Stieben J. Learning Through Interaction in Children with Autism: Preliminary Data from a Social-Communication-Based Intervention. Autism, published online September 26, 2011.
  • THAILAND: Pajareya K, Kopmaneejumruslers K. A pilot randomized controlled trial of DIR/Floortime parent training intervention for pre-school children with autistic spectrum disorders. Autism, published online before print, June 13, 2011.
  • CANADA: Dionne M, Martini R. Floor Time play with a child with autism: A single-subject study. Revue canadienne d'ergotherapie, juin 2011, 78(3)
  • To read more about research supporting the DIR® model and DIRFloortimeintervention, click here



    Unique archive of Web Radio Shows recorded by Dr. Greenspan (2004-2009)

    Listen to Dr. Greenspan's wise words in more than 200 audio files he recorded for you between 2004 and 2009!


    Thousands of parents and professionals have listened to these free mp3 files. Topics include Autism and special needs, comprehensive approach to ADHD, learning and individual differences, parenting, regulatory sensory processing, social groups, maintaining healthy relationships, how to prevent and overcome most mental health disorders, and most recent recordings (2009) on peer play, perseverative behaviors, thinking, being human, copying with stress, fact sheet on educating legislators, new roadmap to early child development policies.
    Start listening today!



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