Welcome to Climbing The Ladder. We specialize in treating children on the Autism Spectrum and with Sensory Processing Disorder using a DIR Floortime Model®, Sensory Integration, and a Developmental Language approach. Services provided include:
· Screenings and Evaluations
· Individual Sessions
· Peer Dyads
· Small Groups
· Parent/Caregiver Coaching
· Home Support/Programming
· School Support/Programming
· IEP Consultation
· Support Groups
· Summer Intensives/Camps
· Therapeutic Listening
· Sensory Integration
· Language Analysis
· SOS feeding
We are a dedicated group of individual clinicians working in collaboration with parents and caregivers to meet each child’s therapeutic needs. Using the DIR Floortime Model®, Climbing The Ladder clinicians employ a well-known developmental methodology that supports each child and family to meet their highest potential. We use the power of relationships to lay appropriate foundations that support each child's climb up the developmental ladder. What is DIR®? DIR ® is a therapeutic model developed by Drs. Stanley Greenspan and Serena Wieder that supports children with special needs to build healthy foundations for social, emotional, and intellectual capacities rather than focusing on isolated skills or behaviors. (D)evelopmental refers to each of the nine stages in building these capacities. It includes helping a child learn how to achieve a calm and well organized state of being, relate and engage with others, initiate and respond to all types of communication, participate in shared social problem-solving, use ideas to communicate, think and play creatively, and combine ideas together to think logically in increasingly complex ways. (I)ndividual/differences refers to the unique neurobiology that each child brings to the interaction with his/her caregivers. It is the way in which a child takes in, responds to, and comprehends sensations such as sight, sound, touch, taste, smell, movement, and the way in which he/she plans, sequences and executes actions and ideas. (R)elationship-based refers to the powerful impact of individualized and child specific relationships (with caregivers, therapists, peers, etc.) that support each child in mastering the critical foundations. Learn more at www.profectum.org or www.icdl.com
