Profectum's Professional Development

In the Introduction to the DIR Model Course, you will explore the core components of the DIR model—Developmental, Individual Differences, and Relationship-based practice—and learn how these elements come together to foster meaningful growth in children and families across settings.

DIR Mentoring Groups offer certified DIR practitioners and educators an opportunity to deepen their practice through small-group, reflective learning guided by expert Profectum trainers and Faculty.

Strengthening relationships with parents and caregivers is a core component of DIR® practitioners’ professional capacities. The Partnering with Caregivers training offers practitioners a framework for attuning to parents and caregivers on their DIR journey. Practitioners also use the FAN to deepen their reflective thinking; which is essential when centering DIR's parent-mediated intervention and coaching model.

The DOLLI (Gerber and Ricamato, 2023), a contemporary developmental language paradigm, can be used to understand the typical language acquisition process, assess a child’s profile of strengths and challenges in the foundations of language, and generate goals for children at various stages of language and communication development.

Providers in Early Intervention will have the opportunity to explore how the DIR-FCD Model helps guide our observations, deepen our understanding and attune our intervention as we support the children, caregivers and families that we serve. Over 35 video examples and facilitated discussion are embedded throughout the course.

The DIR-FCD IEP Goal Bank is a guide used to support the writing of individualized DIR-FCD goals. It is a developmental scope and sequence of goals based on typical development and adapted to reflect the developmental needs of school-aged students (ages 3 to 21.)