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Presuming Competence

Presuming Competence

Photo credit: Kat Wilcox This Week's PodcastThis week's podcast features returning guests, Special Educator Jackie Bartell and Speech Language Pathologist Bridget Palmer who are both DIR Experts and coaches in ICDL's DIR Home Program, and who both teach courses at...

Regulating through Trauma

Regulating through Trauma

This Week's GuestDevelopmental, Individual differences, Relationship-based (DIR) Expert Training Leader and Clinical Social Worker in Psychotherapy Private Practice, Galina Itskovich, is the Director at the Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Study Center (PPSC) Refugee...

All About Praxis: Part 2 of 2

All About Praxis: Part 2 of 2

Photo by Mika Baumeister on UnsplashThis Week's Guests and Part 1 ReviewOccupational Therapist, Joann Fleckenstein, and Licensed Professional Counselor, Mike Fields, both of Individual and Team Therapy Services in Atlanta and Expert Developmental, Individual...

Unpacking ‘Aggression’

Unpacking ‘Aggression’

This Week's GuestReturning guest, DIR Expert Training Leader and Licensed Professional Counsellor, Mike Fields, joins us this week to discuss aggression. We'll cover praxis, regulation and co-regulation, neuroception (i.e., the body scanning the environment for...

The Conversation

The Conversation

This Week's GuestReturning guests, Jackie Bartell, retired special educator, and Colette Ryan, Infant Mental Health Specialist discuss a video conversation presented at a past ICDL Conference where a mother and son have a discussion about the son's differences pre-...

My Autism, My Story

My Autism, My Story

This Week's GuestAutistic Self-Advocate, Turrell Burgess, joins the podcast this week to discuss his experience, his book, What's with the New Kid: My Autism My Story, what led him to the International Council on Development and Learning (ICDL)--the home of...

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