Introduction to DIRFloortime for Music Therapists Synchronous Course

Course Schedule

Instructor: John Carpente, Ph.D., MT-BC, LCAT, DIR-C 

Dates of the Course: May 9, May 16 & May 23 @ 10am-2pm EST (all meetings will be recorded and made available to all registrants)

Cost: Early Bird $249. (Before April 1, 2025), Regular Registration $275, Students $150

Registration: To Register Click Here 

• Overview of ASD
  • ASD Treatments & research
  • DIR model and supportive research
  • Affect diathesis theory & role of affect

• Define the “D” & 6 Functional Emotional Developmental Levels
  • Level 1: Self-regulation and interest in the world
  • Level 2: Engagement
  • Level 3: 2-way purposeful

• Musical Emotional Profiles
• MEARS Levels & FEDLs
• Level 1: Musical attention
• Level 2: Musical affect
• Level 3: Musical Adaption

• 12:15-1:30 Lunch
• 1:30-3:00pm Lecture

• Level 4: Musical engagement
• Level 5: Musical interrelatedness
• Musical differences

• Floortime and musical clinical techniques
  • Assessment and MT goals
  • Wrap-up

Learning Objectives

Participants successfully completing this course will be able to:

1. Identify common features of autism and other challenges of relating and communicating.
2. Identify the key features of relationship-based approaches.
3. Explore 6 Functional Emotional Developmental Levels (FEDLs) in the DIR® model and potential challenges that children face at each capacity.
4. Understand the “I” in DIR – individual differences and how health, sensory processing, and regulatory challenges can impact a child’s development.
5. Understand key principles and basic strategies of Floortime.
6. Understand the role of relationship and family in the DIR® model.
7. Understand the essential role of affect as it is related to the D, the I, and the “R”.
8. Understand how to carry out music therapy interventions within a DIRFloortime framework.
9. Understand how each of the four music music therapy methods can be employed within a DIR framework.
10. Understand how to assess the type of music therapy method/s is clinical warranted based on the client’s profile.
11. Understand how to conceptualize client’s, musically, within a DIR framework.
12. Exploring how the DIR 6 Functional Emotional Capacities relate to specific musical responses with regard to the Musical Emotional Assessment Rating Scale.

Registration

Cost: Early bird before April 1th: $249 US. Regular registration after April 15th: $275 Per Person. Students: $150

Refund Policy: 50% refund until April 1, 2025. No refunds will be awarded after April 1, 2025

To Register Click Here 

• Review levels 1-3/Continue with FEDLs
  • Level 4: Problem-solving
  • Level 5: Creating ideas
  • Level 6: Bridging ideas

• Define the “I” of DIR model
• Sensory systems; sensory modulation; praxis & sequencing
• Affect and praxis
  • Define “R” in DIR
  • Integrating the “D,” “I,” & “R”

• Principles & techniques of Floortime: integrating D, I & R
  • Music therapy & Floortime
  • Realizing Floortime with the 4 music therapy methods: improvisation, composition, receptive experience, recreative music
  • MT Emotional Levels & DIR FEDLs
  • Clinical techniques & Floortime procedure

• Musical Emotional Profiles
• MEARS Levels & FEDLs
• Level 1: Musical attention
• Level 2: Musical affect
• Level 3: Musical Adaption

• 12:15-1:30 Lunch
• 1:30-3:00pm Lecture

• Level 4: Musical engagement
• Level 5: Musical interrelatedness
• Musical differences

• Floortime and musical clinical techniques
  • Assessment and MT goals
  • Wrap-up

Learning Objectives

Participants successfully completing this course will be able to:

1. Identify common features of autism and other challenges of relating and communicating.
2. Identify the key features of relationship-based approaches.
3. Explore 6 Functional Emotional Developmental Levels (FEDLs) in the DIR® model and potential challenges that children face at each capacity.
4. Understand the “I” in DIR – individual differences and how health, sensory processing, and regulatory challenges can impact a child’s development.
5. Understand key principles and basic strategies of Floortime.
6. Understand the role of relationship and family in the DIR® model.
7. Understand the essential role of affect as it is related to the D, the I, and the “R”.
8. Understand how to carry out music therapy interventions within a DIRFloortime framework.
9. Understand how each of the four music music therapy methods can be employed within a DIR framework.
10. Understand how to assess the type of music therapy method/s is clinical warranted based on the client’s profile.
11. Understand how to conceptualize client’s, musically, within a DIR framework.
12. Exploring how the DIR 6 Functional Emotional Capacities relate to specific musical responses with regard to the Musical Emotional Assessment Rating Scale.

Registration

Cost: Early bird before April 1th: $249 US. Regular registration after April 15th: $275 Per Person. Students: $150

Refund Policy: 50% refund until April 1, 2025. No refunds will be awarded after April 1, 2025

To Register Click Here