Since 2001, I have been working with families in the states and abroad using a comprehensive Developmental evidence-based treatment approach based upon DIR/Floortime to treat infants, toddlers, young children, adolescents and adults diagnosed with autism spectrum and other related developmental and social-communicative based challenges. A fundamental core part of my practice is to consistently guide you and all family members in each session to emotionally understand and connect with how your child is navigating his/her world and at each stage help cultivate all of your child's typical Functional Emotional Developmental capacities of attending, relating, engaging and full social pragmatic communication/language.

This includes learning how to join-in and attribute purpose and meaning with respect to how your child is navigating his/her world; cultivating your child's simple to complex back and forth two-way social-emotional problem solving interactions during daily routines with others and across space with use of gestures, words and phrases; simple to complex symbolic/pretend play activities where your child from an embodied sense-of-felt-safety can begin to move forward and elaborate upon feelings and more complex ideas; full social-pragmatic language development and peer-relationship skills. 60 minute sessions are conducted in your home or family setting.

Sessions in your home or in a familiar routine outside the home are always the most optimal setting for you to be guided in your engagement with your child in deepening shared attention, simple to complex regulation/co-regulation, two-way problem reciprocal solving , symbolic play and pragmatic language/communication with you, peers and others.

As an integral part of our weekly follow-up and at no additional cost, we strongly encourage each family to confidentially submit up to 15 minutes of video clips per week of child/parent or child/peer interactions so that we can track and discuss any concerns or challenges you may have in the implementation of your child’s skills outside of our regular sessions. All initial phone/virtual consultations conversations are quite extensive and non-fee based.

Virtual sessions which have proven to work extraordinarily well due to the structure and nature of DIR/Floortime where at each moment we are guiding the child/parent interaction is an option for families where scheduling is problematic or who live outside the geographical area. https://www.dirdirectory.com/united-states/fort-lee/dirfloortime-practitioner/neil-samuels