Since 2001, I have been working with families using a comprehensive Developmental evidence-based treatment approach based upon DIR/Floortime to treat infants, toddlers, young children, adolescents and adults diagnosed with autism spectrum and other related developmental and social-communicative based challenges. A fundamental core part of my practice is to consistently guide you and all family members in each session to emotionally understand and connect with how your child is navigating his/her world and at each stage help cultivate all of your child's typical Functional Emotional Developmental capacities of attending, relating, engaging and social pragmatic communication/language.

This includes learning how to join-in and attribute purpose and meaning with respect to how your child is navigating his/her world; cultivating your child's simple to complex back and forth two-way social-emotional problem solving interactions during daily routines with others and across space with use of gestures, words and phrases; simple to complex symbolic/pretend play activities where your child from an embodied sense-of-felt-safety can begin to move forward and elaborate upon feelings and more complex ideas; full social-pragmatic language development and peer-relationship skills. 60-minute sessions are conducted in your home or family setting. Sessions in your home are the most natural setting for you to be guided in your engagement with your child and for your child to engage and begin to communicate. As an integral part of the implementation of skills outside of our regular sessions, families are strongly encouraged to submit up to 15 minutes of video clips per week of child/parent or child/peer interactions which we will review and discuss at no additional cost. All initial phone consultations are quite extensive and non-fee based.  

Virtual sessions which have proven to work extraordinarily well due to the structure and nature of DIR/Floortime where at each moment we are guiding the child/parent interaction is an option for families where scheduling is problematic or who live outside the geographical area.

DIR/Floortime: https://www.dirdirectory.com/united-states/fort-lee/dirfloortime-practitioner/neil-samuels