Development Happens Within Relationships Across a Lifetime

through genuine affect, respect, warmth, and playful interactions

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We Chose Play: Raising an Autistic Child to Thrive and Feel Understood

by Daria C. Brown (2025)

 

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Movement Integrates

Movement Integrates

Episode 305In this episode, number 305, I interview DIR® Expert Training Leader and Occupational Therapist Maude Le Roux who has a DIR® clinic, A Total Approach, in Glen Mills, PA. She has her own online academy where she trains professionals and parents and recently...

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We Chose Play Season 1, Episode 3: How do we start?

We Chose Play Season 1, Episode 3: How do we start?

Episode 304 - We Chose Play Season 1, Episode 3: How do we start?Every other week in 2026 so far, you've been hearing the audio only of one episode of the Floortime documentary We Chose Play. This time it's Season 1, Episode 3, called, "How do we start?" that covers...

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DIR® Dialogues: Research Supporting DIRFloortime®

DIR® Dialogues: Research Supporting DIRFloortime®

DIR® DialoguesThis DIR® Dialogues panel explores the research base behind DIRFloortime®, as a follow up to a previous episode, highlighting both its strong, transdisciplinary foundations and the challenges of measuring developmental, relational change within...

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We Advocate for the Developmental, Individual differences, Relationship-based (DIR®) Approach for Children with Developmental Differences

Developmental

This approach is developmental in nature, not behavioural. We meet others where they are, developmentally, in order to support and guide their developmental trajectory, which is different for everyone.

Individual Differences

We all have individual circumstances and sensory processing differences that vary greatly from one another which inform our understanding of how we interact with the world and with others.

Relationship-based

With genuine affect, we create those warm and nurturing relationships that are tailored to each of our individual differences and will help support us moving forward in our development.

Floortime

Floortime is joining others in their interests to respectfully and playfully support their individual development through shared, joyful, spontaneous interactions. We all need to feel safe to play to grow and learn.

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