Government Relations

About Us

MISSION: We are the DIR/Floortime Coalition of California. We are parents, families, and professionals promoting DIR/Floortime intervention to help people across the lifespan with Autism and other special needs. We are committed to expanding awareness and use of the DIR/Floortime approach through education, fundraising, research, networking, and advocacy.

• Parent Choice including true informed consent and access
• Responsible funding for intervention and treatment
• Evidence-Based Practice defined by the medical and healthcare community (Sackett et. Al, 1996) as the use of clinical judgment with the best available research to provide families truly informed consent. In this way, families become empowered to choose approaches best suited to their needs.
• DIR®/Floortime™ philosophy and interventions are meant to form an umbrella under which specific strategies are provided. We welcome dialogue and collaboration with colleagues from other evidence-based approaches.

1. Legislative advocacy to ensure our right to practice
2. Fund-raising in order to accomplish this aim
3. Development and nurturing of ongoing relationships with legislators and other key people
4. Maintenance of mutually supportive relationships with our colleagues in other states and countries
5. Promotion of better research that clarifies the utility of and improves DIR®/Floortime™ philosophy and interventions

We need your help to ensure ongoing services for our children using the DIR/Floortime Approach. Rather than seeking compliance as the main goal with a child, we strive to bring the gleam out in every child's eye, no matter the level of challenge they face.

• Grand Invitation
• Train4Autism
• Government Relations

The Issue

Stanley and Nancy Greenspan
Serena Wieder
Joshua Feder
Diane Cullinane
Patricia Marquart
Jeanne White
Mona Delahooke
Pablo Velez
Jonine Biesman
Andrea Davis
Christina Lyons
Sharon Lowery
DanaKae Bonahoom
Brooke Hampton
Lisel Storck
Joanne C. Finn
Fatima Lang
Robin Hauge
Lisa C. deFaria
Nuri Nazar
Jason Nazar
Rochelle and Alan Cohn
Sherwin Biesman
Christy M. Johnsin
Barry Johnsin
Matthew Stephen Shores
Arnon Heller
Lexie Turner Smith
Audrey Greenwood
Deryl Goldenberg
Joan Winton
Rachel Scandiffio
Sara Chapman
Yen Walter
Ben Zequeria-Russell
Cecelia Breinbauer
Philip Hampton
Naomi Scott
Rachel Fink Parks
Nancy Carla Poole
Paula Cheri Jurczak
Esther B. Hess
Susan Ann Gonzales
Susan Reedy
Nancy Poole
Stephanie Pass
Sara Kole
Connie Lillas