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Gestural Development: The ‘D’, the ‘I’, and the ‘R’
Photo by Ketut SubiyantoThis Week's PodcastBrookes Barrack is a Speech-Language Pathologist and DIR-Expert Training Leader who has a clinic just outside of Kansas City, Kansas with Occupational Therapist Emily Tritz called Kansas City Developmental Therapies where...
DIR/Floortime In-Home Coaching Supports Families
Photo by Gustavo FringThis Week's GuestKerri Ciskowski is a DIR-Expert Occupational Therapist in central New Jersey who does in-home support through her service Therapy Keeper for families who are typically raising autistic kids. She is a happily married mother of 3...
Bringing DIR Into the Classroom to Accommodate Communication for All
Photo by Tima MiroshnichenkoThis Week's EpisodeToniAnn Loftus is DIR Expert and Speech-Language Pathologist. She trained at the Rebecca School and now owns and operates Seaport Speech and Feeding, a clinic in Manhattan. Today we are discussing inclusion in schools...
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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