Facilitated Playdates are clinician-supported, 2:1 structured play sessions that bring together carefully matched peers to support social, emotional, and developmental growth. Each pairing is thoughtfully selected based on age, communication style, interests, and therapeutic goals to create the best opportunity for meaningful connection and success.
During sessions, clinicians provide real-time coaching, modeling, and gentle guidance to help children navigate social interactions in a naturalistic setting. Activities are intentionally designed to encourage cooperation, flexibility, communication, and shared engagement, while still feeling fun and child-led. Support is gradually adjusted based on each child’s needs, allowing for increased independence over time.
Each session incorporates evidence-based strategies to support skill-building in a way that is engaging, individualized, and functional. Children are supported in developing:
• Social communication skills (e.g., initiating play, turn-taking, conversational reciprocity)
• Emotional regulation and frustration tolerance
• Problem-solving and flexible thinking
• Perspective-taking and understanding social cues
• Confidence in peer interactions
Because skills are practiced in real-time with peers, children are better able to generalize what they learn to school, home, and community settings. Caregivers may also receive feedback and strategies to reinforce progress outside of sessions, promoting consistency and long-term growth.
Schedule a callTamar offers one-to-one DIR Floortime Therapy in-office and in-school. Sessions are held both indoors and outdoors with the incorporation of sensorimotor play to best support the child in social-emotional development. Parents are incorporated into 1:1 sessions to strengthen the parent-child relationship
It’s true that your child is different, they all are. With an approach like DIR Floortime, the childs’ individual differences are accounted for and sessions are fine tuned to the unique child. I use a multidisciplinary approach in all my sessions to better understand the root causes of behaviors and how to best address them. Forming a healthy relationship with the child and family is key in development. Giving parents the tools they need to practice strategies at home speeds up progress in meeting the goals we create together.
Our speech therapists work with children to help them communicate effectively, speak clearly, and listen closely.
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