Since 2001, I have been working with families in their home-setting 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 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 with use of gestures, words and phrases; simple to complex symbolic/pretend play activities so your child from an internal sense-of-safety can begin to move forward and elaborate upon feelings and complex ideas; peer relationships and full social-pragmatic language/communication skills. All 60-minute sessions are conducted with you and your child in your home or family setting.  All initial phone consultations 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 the therapist is at each moment guiding the parent/child interaction and parents becomes confident in successfully carrying over all the foundations of engagement outside of our sessions is an option for families where scheduling is problematic or who live outside the geographical area.

DIR/Floortime: https://www.dirdirectory.com/united-states/fort-lee/dirfloortime-practitioner/neil-samuels