The Floortime Center
Unlocking Every Child’s Potential
The Floortime Center remains the only multi-site international clinic in the world to be planned with the assistance of Dr. Stanley Greenspan that provides his version of Floortime, The Greenspan Floortime Approach®. Since the start of The Floortime Center in 2004, Jake Greenspan and Tim Bleecker, its founders and co-directors, have worked with over 3000 families, and have presented 1 to 4-day workshops for dozens of health and educational organizations in 15 countries on 4 continents.
In addition to providing parent coaching in The Greenspan Floortime Approach®, the clinic includes Intensive Social Programs (THERASCHOOL™/THERACAMP™), Sensory Integration, Occupational Therapy, Speech and Language Pathology, Visuo-Motor Therapy, and Intensive Feeding Programs (Foodtime™).
What is the Greenspan Floortime Approach
Many people offer Floortime, but few strictly follow Dr Greenspan’s way of doing it. The Greenspan Floortime Approach is Dr. Greenspan’s way of doing Floortime.
Floortime is an intervention that can be done by parents, family, or professionals to optimally stimulate a child’s developmental growth. It is a way of communicating with and responding to children, adolescents, and young adults that encourages them to do the thinking.
Most standards of therapy and education are based on adult led experiences where the adult is showing or telling the child what to do. Unfortunately, many children can become resistant to this or get very used to being shown or told the answer to the problem, and become reliant on that process.
This is similar to a math teacher telling their student 2+2=4. Now they know the answer, but they don’t know how to add.
Programs They Provide
Individualized Programs
Learning how to find the right words, speak smoothly, and speak clearly are aspects of being a good communicator.
Theraschool
THERASCHOOL™ is not a school or therapy. It is an evidence-based 12-16 week, (4 days per week, 3-4 hours per day), program that combines the best of an individualized intensive therapy program.
Foodtime
FOODTIME™ programs are tailored to meet the needs of the individual child and are typically 24, one hour sessions over a period of 12 weeks.