Good Autism Education is Just Good Education

In this session, Dr. Gil Tippy describes how early learning education through the use of basic Floortime concepts translates into building useful skills to help learners of all ages solve problems. Dr. Tippy discusses the need for teachers to find and build on students’ strengths and communication skills within a Floortime learning model to construct the “little behavioral pieces” necessary for basic skills to grow into abstract thinking and learning. With the belief that a developmental approach to learning is the foundation to a good school, Dr. Tippy emphasizes that good education for children on the autism spectrum is simply good education for all children.