by D. Brown | Jul 16, 2018 | DIR Theory, Podcast
Photo Copyright Affect Autism Key Take-Aways AUDIO Do you find it hard to keep your child engaged with you? Is it hard to have an ongoing back-and-forth interaction without them losing interest or moving away? It could be that you struggling to connect with your child...
by D. Brown | Jul 2, 2018 | DIR Theory, Podcast
Photo: Nathan Anderson Key Take-Aways AUDIO More and more research is demonstrating what Dr. Stanley Greenspan and Dr. Stuart Shanker told us in The First Idea years ago: that we develop within emotional relationships with our primary caregivers. This development...
by D. Brown | Jun 18, 2018 | DIR Theory, Podcast
Key Take-Aways AUDIO In Floortime, we talk a lot about emotions: emotional awareness, early social-emotional capacities, using emotional expressions, accepting all emotional expressions in our children, etc. We even use it interchangeably with the noun affect, which...
by D. Brown | Jun 4, 2018 | DIR Theory, Podcast
Photo: Thiago Cerqueira Key Take-Aways AUDIO In Floortime we talk about meeting the child where they are Developmentally (“D”) and taking into account their unique sensory profile and Individual differences (“I”), all within a safe, warm, and...
by D. Brown | May 21, 2018 | DIR Practice, DIR Theory, Podcast, Video podcast
Photo: Bruno Nascimento Key Take-Aways Jackie Bartell is back with us this week for a fantastic discussion about a concept so essential to the Developmental, Individual differences, Relationship-based (DIR) model and Floortime, and that is that we are human beings not...
