and interact with your child.
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Information, tools and resources for parents.
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Social Communication Disorder (SCD)
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Training Schedule
Upcoming Conferences
Upcoming Events
Profectum conferences gather leading experts to discuss the latest research and advances with the Foundational Capacities for Development and the DIR models.
Profectum records most conferences and other sessions to make them available as webcasts so that they can be accessible to a larger audience.
Profectum offers a menu of training programs, ranging from introductory to special topic courses, that can be taken at any time.
About Us
Profectum comes from the Latin for “advancement or progress,” and Profectum Foundation is dedicated to advancing the development of all children, adolescents and adults with autism and special needs.
Our work builds upon the Developmental, Individual Differences, Relationship model (DIR model), developed by Stanley Greenspan and Serena Wieder, that is central to all our work. We believe that the interventional approaches that parents and practitioners use to help individuals with special needs must advance and evolve to incorporate new ideas, new knowledge and reflect the most up-to-date research and neuroscience – they should never be static and must grow as our population grows.
We created the Foundational Capacities for Development™ (FCD™) model to provide an integrative framework to help parents and practitioners determine how to anticipate challenges and integrate different approaches to help an individual with special needs address his/her barriers at various stages of development across the lifespan. More…
