October 24, 2022 by Prof. Dr. Burak Tatli

Child Development Unit

D: Developmet – means development and refers to the social emotional development of the child.

I: Individual differences- refers to the individual differences that the child has from birth.

R: Stating that it is a relationship-based approach, he states that social emotional development can only develop around the parent-child relationship.

‘D.I.R’ is used to express the theory of this method and ‘floortime’ is used to express the application part.

Child psychiatrist Dr. The main goal of D.I.R Floortime, which Stanley Greenspan called “Game on the Floor”; It is to enable parents to recognize their children’s strengths and communicate with them correctly and to facilitate them to cope with the limitations they encounter in daily life. D.I.R Floortime aims to highlight the strengths of children and to focus on the aspects of success of the child by including children in all age and special needs groups and their families with a developmental delay/risk, Autism risk/diagnosis, Cerebral Palsy, Epilepsy, or typical development. aims to work. Families are the cornerstone of this theory.

Recognizing Developmental Risks at the Earliest Period!

• Inability to initiate or maintain communication

• Restriction in making and maintaining eye contact

• Limited imitation skills

• Inability to switch to imaginary play

• Motor Stereotypical behaviors (Rapid shaking of hands and arms)

• Repetitive patterns of behavior

• Not turning when called by name

Tests Applied in Child Development Unit

• Denver II Developmental Screening Test

• Moxo Attention Test

• Burdon Attention Test

• Frankfurter Attention Test

• Projective Assessment Tests (Draw a Human, Draw a Family, Draw a Non-existent Animal, Draw a House, Draw a Tree, Draw a Cactus)

• CARS (Childhood Autism Rating Scale)