Seattle, WA Summer Camps

Pediatric PT & OT Services - Seattle, WA Pacific NW Pediatric Therapy - Portland, OR

Four Weeks of DIR®/Floortime Summer Camp

Our goal is for the campers to have fun and to develop play skills in rich interactions with peers.

Each camper is supported in a way to enable him or her to feel comfortable and successful in the ebb and flow of play with his/her peers.

• The philosophy of the camp is DIR®/Floortime with the focus on relating and social interaction with peers.
• The camps are four weeks long – three hours per day.

From our experience in past camps, and from parent feedback, we have found that the campers benefit from a longer session as their interactions become richer and stronger.

The Camp:  The camp space is set up with a variety of toys such as a dollhouse, home center, cars, trains, dress up, and arts and crafts. During the three-hour camp, there will be: snack time, story time, outside time, and lunch time (bring your own sack lunch/snack). The focus of the camp is for the campers to engage in “free play” with their peers. The role of the staff is to facilitate engagement and interaction between the peers using the DIR/Floortime approach. The camp is not structured in the sense of the therapists and aides teaching skills, rather we facilitate each child’s functional emotional development during spontaneous play.

Staff: Rosemary works in each camp as the director along with Occupational Therapists and staff from the practice and team leaders. Together they supervise and support all the aides. The entire staff participates in DIR®/Floortime training prior to the camp and each day during the camp. The staff comes from a wide variety of professional backgrounds and has elected to work in this camp because they want to learn this model of treatment and interaction.

Parent Support/Training: There will be parent sessions during the camp to provide you with information on Floortime, how it is integrated into the camp and how you can bring this into your interactions at home.

Campers New to Pediatric PT & OT: Campers who are not currently clients in our practice will need to have a one hour individual intake session prior to the camp. At the time of the session we will observe your child’s play and interaction to develop an understanding of your child’s functional emotional development and individual profile so we can best meet his/her needs at the camp.  The fee for the individual intake session is $140. We ask that you please complete and return both the registration form and our intake questionnaire (you can access the questionnaire on our website under New Client Info & Forms/Intake Forms.) We will contact you to schedule the intake session before camp starts.

Summer Camp Description