How does the Miller Method differ from Greenspans Floor Time Approach?
While the two approaches are similar in their emphasis on transforming developmentally challenged children’s repetitive and stereotypic actions into functional behavior whenenver possible, there are significant differences between the two approaches. Greenspan’s Floor Time approach is unstructured in that the therapist waits for the child’s lead before attempting to build on it with “circles of communication.” While also exploiting the child’s leads, the Miller Method, in addition , introduces a specific program to directly address developmental lags. For example, if a child has never gone through the 9-11 month old stage of “experimentally” dropping things to learn how they fall, a Miller Method therapist may deliberately introduce a dropping system by showing the child how to drop things so that they land with a satisfying “clunk” in a pan and will then shift that pan so that the child learns to drop in different locations and with different people…The Miller Method also structures
