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Let’s Talk About Autism Inclusion this April

Let’s Talk About Autism Inclusion this April

On this Episode...The International Council on Development and Learning (ICDL) Board President, autistic self-advocate, Dr. Emile Gouws and I discuss April's month of autism awareness, acceptance, and appreciation, and the need to move towards action and inclusion....

Following the Child’s Emotional Intent

Following the Child’s Emotional Intent

PHOTO CREDIT: RDNE Stock projectThis Episode's GuestGerman Psychologist Sibylle Janert is a DIRFloortime® Expert and Training Leader who teaches DIR® courses in the UK in English and in German in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. She also offers Floortime coaching to...

DIR® Dialogues: Parent Practitioners

DIR® Dialogues: Parent Practitioners

PHOTO CREDIT: Kampus ProductionA New Podcast!This marks the first edition of DIR® Dialogues from Affect Autism! This new podcast will include Practitioner Panels–the first one featuring parent practitioners! DIR® Dialogues will be an addition to the usual podcasts. I...

DIR® and the Science of Hope

DIR® and the Science of Hope

PHOTO CREDIT: Pixabay On this Episode...My returning guest is Licensed Professional Counselor, Mike Fields, who is an Expert Developmental, Individual differences, Relationship-based (DIR®) Training Leader at several clinics including a Across All Ages, a new...

Intensives at the DIR® Institute

Intensives at the DIR® Institute

PHOTO CREDIT: ICDL, Inc.On this Episode...On this episode, my guests are Educator Becky Gottlieb, who is the Floortime Intensives Program Coordinator at ICDL's DIR® Institute in New Jersey, and Occupational Therapist, Gretchen Kamke, who is ICDL's Accreditation...

Diagnosing Autism in Girls and Women

Diagnosing Autism in Girls and Women

This Episode's TopicThere's been a lot of talk about how autistic girls are not recognized and diagnosed and on social media around many women being diagnosed as autistic after their children are diagnosed. Dr. Robert Naseef has been diagnosing children and adults...

Co-Regulation through Affective Signalling

Co-Regulation through Affective Signalling

PHOTO CREDIT: Monstera ProductionOn this Episode...I am absolutely thrilled to have returning guest, Educator Kasheena Holder back, who is a DIRFloortime® Expert Training Leader with the International Council on Development and Learning and owner and director of...

Gestural Development: The D, the I, and the R

Gestural Development: The D, the I, and the R

PHOTO CREDIT: Ketut SubiyantoOn this Episode...Brookes Barrack is a Speech-Language Pathologist and DIRFloortime® Expert Training Leader who has a clinic just outside of Kansas City, Kansas with Occupational Therapist Emily Tritz called Kansas City Developmental...

In-Home Floortime Coaching Supports Families

In-Home Floortime Coaching Supports Families

PHOTO CREDIT: Gustavo FringThis Episode's GuestKerri Ciskowski is a DIRFloortime® Expert and 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...

Trauma through a DIR® Lens

Trauma through a DIR® Lens

PHOTO CREDIT: NEOSiAM 2024+This Episode's TopicThe topic of this episode is trauma through a DIR® lens. Maude Le Roux recently did a course on this topic through the International Council on Development and Learning and here she covers how to work with trauma clients...

Developing Through FEDC 4 into FEDC 5

Developing Through FEDC 4 into FEDC 5

PHOTO CREDIT: cottonbro studioThis Episode's TopicThe topic of this episode is to give an overview and review of the fourth Functional Emotional Developmental Capacity (FEDC 4) of the Developmental, Individual differences, and Relationship (DIR®) model from last...

Nurturing Intentionality as a Bridge to FEDC 4

Nurturing Intentionality as a Bridge to FEDC 4

PHOTO CREDIT: Anna ShvetsThis Episode's TopicThis episode we are discussing intentionality in Functional Emotional Developmental Capacity (FEDC) 3, which is Intentionality and Two-Way Communication in the Developmental, Individual differences, and Relationship (DIR®)...

A DIR® Lens on Sleeping

A DIR® Lens on Sleeping

PHOTO CREDIT: Ketut SubiyantoOn this Episode...This episode's topic is one that is a top request by parents: sleep. I covered it a bit with Dr. Joshua Feder in a previous podcast. Although neither this episode's guest nor I are sleep experts, we want to come at the...

Reflective Practice in DIR®

Reflective Practice in DIR®

PHOTO CREDIT: Christina MorilloOn this Episode...Andrew Klein is a DIRFloortime® Expert Training Leader and a pediatric Occupational Therapist at Emerge Pediatric Therapy in Durham, North Carolina where he has a specialized role in facilitating reflective supervision...

Advocating for rightful inclusion in school

Advocating for rightful inclusion in school

Photo above: The Kredich boys performing at school.On this Episode...This episode features Floortime parent advocate Kim Kredich who has served as a volunteer advocate for hundreds of students with disabilities in East Tennessee, working with families to help their...

Affect and Regulation in Middle Eastern Culture

Affect and Regulation in Middle Eastern Culture

On this Episode...This episode features DIRFloortime® Expert Training Leader Nagwa Khedr, who is an early intervention specialist in Cairo, Egypt. She's been practicing DIRFloortime® since 2014 and was involved recently in opening a DIRFloortime® Center there called...

If I Need Help

If I Need Help

On this Episode...For this podcast, I step outside of the DIRFloortime® world to showcase If I Need Help, a non profit that reunites those who might become lost, disoriented, or need assistance in a critical moment with their families, loved ones, and caregivers using...

Presuming Competence

Presuming Competence

PHOTO CREDIT: Kat Wilcox On this Episode...This episode features returning guests, Special Educator Jackie Bartell and Speech Language Pathologist Bridget Palmer who are both DIRFloortime® Expert Training Leaders and teach courses at ICDL. Amy McMunn is the mother of...

A Developmental Perspective on Sharing

A Developmental Perspective on Sharing

PHOTO CREDIT: Vika Glitter On this Episode...This episode, returning guest, Occupational Therapist, Stephanie Peters, DIRFloortime® Expert Training Leader and Clinical Director with Kinder Growth discusses the developmental considerations around sharing.You can also...

Gestalt Language Processing and DIR®

Gestalt Language Processing and DIR®

PHOTO CREDIT: Tara WinsteadOn this Episode...This episode, Speech Therapist, Sabrina O'Keefe, DIRFloortime® Expert Training Leader, discusses Gestalt Language Processing within a Developmental, Individual differences, Relationship-based (DIR®) framework, which...

Parent Perspectives: Parent Self-Regulation

Parent Perspectives: Parent Self-Regulation

PHOTO CREDIT: Ketut SubiyantoParent PerspectivesOn this edition of Parent Perspectives from Affect Autism, we have a parent discussion with an autistic parent of two autistic daughters about parent self-regulation with some great examples. Parent Perspectives is an...

Regulating through Trauma

Regulating through Trauma

This Episode's GuestDevelopmental, Individual differences, Relationship-based (DIR) Expert Training Leader and Clinical Social Worker in Psychotherapy Private Practice, Galina Itskovich, is the Director at the Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Study Center (PPSC) Refugee...

Parent Perspectives: Retrospective Perspective

Parent Perspectives: Retrospective Perspective

Parent PerspectivesOn this edition of Parent Perspectives from Affect Autism, we have another parent panel! Parent Perspectives is an addition to the usual podcasts.This edition of Parent Perspectives features three mothers of autistic daughters, including one who is...

Visual Spatial Planning and Assessment (ViSPA)

Visual Spatial Planning and Assessment (ViSPA)

This Episode's GuestsDevelopmental, Individual differences, Relationship-based (DIR®) Expert Training Leader and Occupational Therapist Toni Tortora is the Clinical Director at the Rebecca School and joins us from Manhattan. Occupational Therapist Colleen Gabbert is...

Visualization leads to Imagination

Visualization leads to Imagination

PHOTO CREDIT: Jessica Rockowitz on UnsplashThis Episode's GuestOccupational Therapist Maude Le Roux is a DIRFloortime® Expert Training Leader and has a DIR® clinic, A Total Approach, in Glen Mills, PA, just outside Philadelphia and they are opening a satellite...

(Non)Compliance Does Not Equal (Dys)Regulation

(Non)Compliance Does Not Equal (Dys)Regulation

This Episode's TopicCompliance is often mistaken for readiness to learn, but compliance does not equal regulation, and regulation is necessary for learning. On the flip side, dysregulation is often seen as noncompliance. In this podcast, we discuss the connection...

A New Community-Created Resource: SLP MAPs

A New Community-Created Resource: SLP MAPs

On this Episode...This episode's guest is Amanda Binns, a clinician scientist who has her PhD and is also a Speech and Language Pathologist. She's currently the co-lead at Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital of a student-led environment designed to support...

All About Praxis: Part 2 of 2

All About Praxis: Part 2 of 2

PHOTO CREDIT: Mika Baumeister on UnsplashOn this Episode...Occupational Therapist, Joann Fleckenstein, and Licensed Professional Counselor, Mike Fields, both of Individual and Team Therapy Services in Atlanta and Expert Developmental, Individual differences,...

All About Praxis: Part 1 of 2

All About Praxis: Part 1 of 2

PHOTO CREDIT: Mika Baumeister on UnsplashOn this Episode...Occupational Therapist, Joann Fleckenstein, and Licensed Professional Counselor, Mike Fields, both of Individual and Team Therapy Services in Atlanta and Expert Developmental, Individual differences,...

A Floortime Approach to Fears and Phobias

A Floortime Approach to Fears and Phobias

On this Episode...Dr. Karen Levine is a Developmental Psychologist and a Developmental, Individual differences, Relationship-based (DIR®) model Expert based in Maine. She has a private practice specializing in treating young children, both neurodivergent and...

Floortime Coaching for Different Parenting Styles

Floortime Coaching for Different Parenting Styles

PHOTO CREDIT: Annie SprattOn this Episode...This episode I welcome Gabriela Michaca who is a licensed school neuropsychologist and also just received her master's degree in Occupational Therapy and is a Developmental, Individual differences, Relationship-based (DIR®)...

The Somatosensory System and Tactile Perception

The Somatosensory System and Tactile Perception

PHOTO CREDIT: Annie SprattOn this Episode...Occupational Therapist Maude Le Roux is back again this episode to discuss the sense of touch, or tactile perception, part of the I, individual differences in the Developmental, Individual differences, Relationship-based...

Physical Therapy is Enhanced Using a Floortime Lens

Physical Therapy is Enhanced Using a Floortime Lens

On this Episode...Mary Beth Crawford is a licensed Physical therapist and Developmental, Individual differences, Relationship-based (DIR®) Expert Training Leader who founded Baby Steps Therapy in 2008. Mary Beth regularly provides lectures and in-service training to...

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