Strategies to help you engage
and interact with your child.
The most comprehensive collection of materials and experienced faculty on the FCD and DIR model
Strategies to help you engage
and interact with your child.
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Our hearts and minds go out to those affected by Hurricanes Harvey and Irma and especially appreciate the challenges families with children with special needs are facing. We would like to share some ideas that may be useful in supporting you and your children during this difficult period that impacts children and families in different | Read More…
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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.
