by D. Brown | Oct 30, 2017 | DIR Practice, Podcast
What is DIR? What is Floortime? Our back-to-school series continues with a podcast featuring Jackie Bartell, a retired Special Educator in the public school system in Rochester, New York, and DIR Expert Training Leader with the Interdisciplinary Council on Development...
by D. Brown | Oct 23, 2017 | DIR Practice, Podcast
What is DIR? What is Floortime? This week’s feature school is The Community School (Note that it is now called Threshold Community Program) in Decatur, Georgia, just outside Atlanta. It is unique in that its cohort is adolescents and young adults. I had the...
by D. Brown | Oct 16, 2017 | DIR Practice
What is DIR? What is Floortime? Continuing with our series on schools using the Developmental, Individual differences, Relationship-based (DIR) model, let’s look at Oakwood Academy in Mississauga, Ontario. It’s the only DIR-based school in Canada and...
by D. Brown | Oct 9, 2017 | DIR Practice
Photo Copyright CBC.ca What is DIR? What is Floortime? Plastered through the news this past weekend was the story of a barber in Quebec who was called “an everyday hero” by the mother of a young, autistic client. This week, we take a hiatus from the...
by D. Brown | Oct 2, 2017 | DIR Practice, Podcast
What is DIR? What is Floortime? This week we bring you another podcast! With our focus on schools that incorporate the Developmental, Individual differences, Relationship-based (DIR) model, we spoke with the Educational Supervisor of the Rebecca School, Rae Leeper,...
