Foundational Capacities for Development – The FCD’s: The Role of Experience and the Importance of Developmental Readiness

Name: Foundational Capacities for Development - The FCD’s: The Role of Experience and the Importance of Developmental Readiness
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Presenters

Serena Wieder, PhD

Dr. Wieder is the Clinical Director and a founding member of the Profectum Foundation, dedicated to advancing the development and infant mental health of all children, including children, adolescents and adults with autism and special needs through training and educational programs. She also co-founded the Interdisciplinary Council on Developmental and Learning Disorders with the late Stanley Greenspan. Dr. Wieder is a Board Member of Zero to Three and also serves on Advisory Boards to various programs serving infant mental health and other special needs. She established DIR-Israel and provides consultation and training to international and national programs. As a clinical psychologist, Dr. Wieder has pioneered important approaches to diagnosing and treating infants and toddlers with infant mental health and developmental disorders. She co-developed the DIR Model with Stanley Greenspan, edited two diagnostic manuals for infants and young children, and created models for interdisciplinary post-graduate case based training and work with parents. She has co-chaired and organized national and international conferences integrating development, neuroscience and intervention approaches for nearly 20 years. Dr. Wieder also developed approaches to integrate visual-spatial knowledge to advance emotional and cognitive development. Her research interests concern follow up studies of children on the Autism Spectrum who have received DIR comprehensive interventions and the evaluation of training and educational programs. Dr. Wieder co-authored Engaging Autism, The Child With Special Needs and Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health with Stanley Greenspan, M.D. They also co-edited Infants in Multi-Risk Families as well as the ICDL Diagnostic Manual for Infants and Young Children (DMIC) and the original Diagnostic Classification of Mental Health and Developmental Disorders of Infancy and Early Childhood (DC 03). Most recently, Dr. Wieder co-authored Visual Spatial Portals to Thinking, Feeling, and Movement with Harry Wachs, O.D. She has published numerous journal and book chapters and presents at multiple conferences nationally and internationally. At this time, Dr. Wieder also has a private practice in NYC for diagnosis, treatment and consultation regarding complex developmental and mental health challenges.

Serena Wieder, PhD

Model theory introduced major paradigm shifts from behavioral and cognitive to dynamic developmental systems that can adapt to the many variations posed by developmental disorders and the many factors that influence it, not bound by age or limitations in interventions or rate of progress. The DIR-FCD™ model defines the necessary structural capacities. Experiences form the building blocks of this structure. To be meaningful these experiences depend on developmental readiness to become part of what the child knows, understands, and can execute. When this occurs, an individual becomes the agent of his or her own intent and competencies. They should be based on an affective need within the child such as curiosity or interest. They also must be active as well as interactive, with an adult who mediates the meaning, unfolding in a sequential manner so that the child can make common sense of and understand them. Exposure is not enough. -This session will discuss the foundational pathways to competence and how to activate, organize and integrate experiences to find the sequence that takes you from the start to the finish that is an essential part of executive functioning.

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