by D. Brown | Oct 30, 2017 | DIR Practice, Podcast
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 and Learning (ICDL). We discuss...
by D. Brown | Oct 23, 2017 | DIR Practice, Podcast
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 privilege of speaking with the...
by D. Brown | Oct 16, 2017 | DIR Practice
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 features the opportunity for its...
by D. Brown | Oct 9, 2017 | DIR Practice
Photo Copyright CBC.ca 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 back-to-school series of posts to...
by D. Brown | Oct 2, 2017 | DIR Practice, Podcast
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, who has worked at the School since...
