Developing Through FEDC 4 into FEDC 5

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This Week’s Topic

The topic of this episode is to give an overview and review of the fourth Functional Emotional Developmental Capacity (FEDC 4) of the Developmental, Individual differences, and Relationship (DIR) Model from last episode, an overview of the fifth FEDC, and to discuss how one moves through FEDC 4 into FEDC 5. 

This Week’s Guest

Our returning guest, DIR Expert and Training Leader and Occupational Therapist Maude Le Roux has a DIR/Floortime clinic, A Total Approach, in Glen Mills, PA, just outside Philadelphia and a satellite location just outside Allentown, PA. She is an international trainer in many other modalities as well.

Developing Through FEDC 4 into FEDC 5

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The Fourth Functional Emotional Developmental Capacity (FEDC 4)

Two episodes ago, we talked about the third Functional Emotional Developmental Capacity (FEDC 3) and moving into FEDC 4. Last episode we dove into FEDC 4, and this week we are recapping FEDC 4 and bridging to FEDC 5 in the Developmental, Individual differences, Relationship-based (DIR) Model. Maude says that everyone always asks if their child is there yet, about FEDC 4, and the bridge between FEDC 3 and FEDC 4 is a huge bridge to climb.

The Functional Emotional Developmental Capacities (FEDCs) in DIR/Floortime

FEDC 1: Self-Regulation and Interest in the World

FEDC 2: Engaging and Relating

FEDC 3: Intentionality and Two-Way Communication

FEDC 4: Complex Communication and Shared Problem Solving

FEDC 5: Using Symbols and Creating Emotional Ideas

FEDC 6: Logical Thinking and Building Bridges between Ideas

FEDC 7: Multiple Perspectives

FEDC 8: Gray Area Thinking

FEDC 9: Reflective Thinking and an Internal Standard of Self

FEDC 4 is the structure on which everything lands, Maude explains. It’s the whole social-emotional understanding of having a social discourse and problem solving around a social