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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...

Our Differences are Our Strengths

Our Differences are Our Strengths

On this Episode...This episode I'm speaking with autistic self-advocate, Mickey Rowe, who has had a prolific and varied career as an actor, director, consultant, and public speaker. He is autistic and legally blind. He believes that our differences are our strengths...

Autism and Medication: Part 2

Autism and Medication: Part 2

PHOTO CREDIT: Rhendi RukmanaThis Episode's TopicWe're back this week with Dr. Joshua Feder, a child and family psychiatrist in Solana Beach, California. We did a podcast on autism and medication a few years back and this is part 2 because there is a new Child...

Empowering Ability

Empowering Ability

This Episode's TopicThis episode, I welcome Eric Goll, the creator of Empowering Ability. I regularly watch Eric's weekly 5-minute video tips, attended his free life plan workshop and took his online course, realizing it was what I needed for where I was at with my...

The Dynamic Process of Transitions

The Dynamic Process of Transitions

PHOTO CREDIT: Markus Spiske on UnsplashThis Episode's TopicThis episode I'm pleased to welcome new DIRFloortime® Expert Training Leader, Helen Groth, as my guest to discuss the dynamic process of transitions in autism. Helen gave a fabulous presentation on transitions...

Giant Steps School in Montréal, Québec

Giant Steps School in Montréal, Québec

On this Episode...On this episode I'm speaking with Marla Cable, the Resource and Training Centre Coordinator at Giant Steps School. Giant Steps is a bilingual, developmental approach, individualized private school in the public interest in Montréal, Québec with 93...

Part 2: Adult Diagnosis and What it Means

Part 2: Adult Diagnosis and What it Means

You can also subscribe on your preferred podcast app by searching, "We chose play from Affect Autism"This Episode's TopicThis week, in Part 2, Kieran Rose and I will discuss late diagnosis and what it means. In Part 1 last week, we discussed a number of topics around...

Part 1: To Whom Should Parents Listen?

Part 1: To Whom Should Parents Listen?

This Episode's TopicIn this episode, part 1, Kieran Rose and I will discuss a number of topics around neurodiversity including who to listen to as parents when our child is diagnosed with so many opinions out there, and the balance between what we want as parents for...

Part 2: Bridging the Gap in Understanding

Part 2: Bridging the Gap in Understanding

This Week's TopicThis week is Part 2 of our podcast with autistic self-advocate Khylil Robinson and his mother, Michele Abraham-Montgomery, also known as Chele, who specializes in Family Services, Autism Resources & Advocacy, Peer Family Coaching, Peer Best...

Part 1: Taking that Step on the Red Carpet

Part 1: Taking that Step on the Red Carpet

Image: shutterstock.comThis Week's TopicJoining us this week are guests Khylil Robinson who is an autistic self-advocate, and his mother, Michele Abraham-Montgomery, also known as Chele, who specializes in Family Services, Autism Resources & Advocacy, Peer Family...

The Complexity of Vision and Visual Processing

The Complexity of Vision and Visual Processing

This Episode's TopicOccupational Therapist Maude Le Roux is back this week to discuss the visual system, vision, and visual processing, following up from our podcast on the vestibular system from a few months ago. The I in the Developmental, Individual differences,...

Kinder Growth DIRFloortime® Medicaid Services

Kinder Growth DIRFloortime® Medicaid Services

On this Episode...Sari Levin is a Special Educator who has worked with families for a long time and is the Clinical Supervisor of Kinder Growth where they provide home-based DIRFloortime® services throughout New Jersey and are the first accredited DIR® organization in...

Unpacking “Aggression”

Unpacking “Aggression”

This Week's GuestReturning guest, DIR Expert Training Leader and Licensed Professional Counsellor, Mike Fields, joins us this week to discuss aggression. We'll cover praxis, regulation and co-regulation, neuroception (i.e., the body scanning the environment for...

The Conversation

The Conversation

This Week's GuestReturning guests, Jackie Bartell, retired special educator, and Colette Ryan, Infant Mental Health Specialist discuss a video conversation presented at a past ICDL Conference where a mother and son have a discussion about the son's differences pre-...

The Impact of Vestibular Processing on Development

The Impact of Vestibular Processing on Development

This Week's GuestA returning, frequent guest, Occupational Therapist Maude Le Roux joins us this week to discuss the impact of vestibular processing on the functional emotional developmental capacities (FEDCs), the 'developmental ladder' in the Developmental,...

Good Intentions Creating Unseen Stigma

Good Intentions Creating Unseen Stigma

This Week's GuestKieran Rose, an autistic self-advocate, published author, speaker, consultant, trainer, researcher, and neurodivergent educator joins us this week to discuss a number of topics around neurodiversity. He offers a regular online learning about...

My Autism, My Story

My Autism, My Story

This Episode's GuestAutistic Self-Advocate, Turrell Burgess, joins the podcast this episode to discuss his experience, his book, What's with the New Kid: My Autism My Story, what led him to the International Council on Development and Learning (ICDL)--the home of...

Gauging our Developmental Capacities: Part 2

Gauging our Developmental Capacities: Part 2

This Week's GuestDevelopmental, Individual differences, Relationship-based (DIR) Expert Training Leader, Colette Ryan, is an infant mental health specialist, a doctoral student in Fielding University’s Infant and Early Childhood Development program, and a parent coach...

Gauging our Developmental Capacities: Part 1

Gauging our Developmental Capacities: Part 1

This Week's GuestDevelopmental, Individual differences, Relationship-based (DIR) Expert Training Leader, Colette Ryan, is an infant mental health specialist, a doctoral student in Fielding University’s Infant and Early Childhood Development program, and a parent coach...

DIRFloortime® and Physical Therapy

DIRFloortime® and Physical Therapy

This Episode's GuestMary Beth Crawford is a licensed Physical therapist and DIRFloortime® Expert Training Leader who founded Baby Steps Therapy in 2008. Mary Beth regularly provides lectures and in-service training to numerous parent groups, and medical professionals...

Creating Opportunities for Co-Regulatory Support

Creating Opportunities for Co-Regulatory Support

Sometimes the biggest challenge parents have with their autistic children who have meltdowns is meeting the child emotionally and connecting. Here, we need to find the affect they’re having in that moment in order to help them feel they’re being heard and understood....

A Developmental Approach to Toileting: Part 2

A Developmental Approach to Toileting: Part 2

Alysha Paiaro, Developmental, Individual differences, Relationship-based (DIR) Occupational Therapist and the Assistant Director of Little Buddies Pediatric Therapy, Inc. DIR Occupational Therapy practice just outside Vancouver, British Columbia returns for Part 2 of...

A Developmental Approach to Toileting: Part 1

A Developmental Approach to Toileting: Part 1

What parent doesn't ask about toileting issues when their child is on the spectrum? I don't think I've met a parent of an autistic child who hasn't struggled with toileting. But is it the child's issue or is it the parent's issue? Developmental, Individual...

Gross Motor versus Fine Motor Functions

Gross Motor versus Fine Motor Functions

Developmental, Individual differences, Relationship-based (DIR) Expert Training Leader and Occupational Therapist, Keith Landherr, is the founder and director of Little Buddies Pediatric Therapy, Inc. just outside of Vancouver, British Columbia. He is also a PhD...

Sensorimotor Profiles in Floortime

Sensorimotor Profiles in Floortime

Gretchen Kamke is an Occupational Therapist and DIR Expert Training Leader with the International Council on Development and Learning (ICDL) and is a Floortime coach in the DIR Home Program....

The New Co-Reg Community

The New Co-Reg Community

A few years back, I spoke with Dr. Stuart Shanker about DIR/Floortime and Self-Reg. Self-reg is a process for enhancing self-regulation by understanding and dealing with stress. Self-regulation...

Going Slower to Move Faster

Going Slower to Move Faster

Occupational Therapist and DIR Expert Training Leader, Maude Le Roux, of A Total Approach in Glen Mills, PA returns this week to discuss moving slower to move faster. Maude says there's the...

KultureCity: Sensory Accessibility and Inclusion

KultureCity: Sensory Accessibility and Inclusion

Photo credit: KultureCityDOWNLOAD KEY TAKE-AWAYSI'm thrilled this week to welcome Dr. Michele Kong, the co-creator of the largest nonprofit on sensory accessibility and acceptance, KultureCity, and board member, Daniel Platzman, who is the drummer of the band, Imagine...

DIR® Child & Family Counselling

DIR® Child & Family Counselling

This is Part 3 of our three podcasts featuring the Developmental, Individual differences, Relationship-based (DIR®) Floortime multi-disciplinary clinic, Professional Child Development Associates in Pasadena, California. Dr. Brandt Chamberlain is a licensed...

Feeding and Floortime

Feeding and Floortime

Julie Miller is a Developmental, Individual differences, Relationship-based (DIR) Occupational Therapist and the Clinical Director of Professional Child Development Associates (PCDA) in...

Redefining the Autism Narrative: Part 2

Redefining the Autism Narrative: Part 2

This post is part 2 of redefining the autism narrative with two autistic self-advocates, Occupational Therapist Virginia Spielmann, the Executive Director of the STAR Institute in Colorado who...

Positive Development

Positive Development

This episode we're talking about a new company called Positive Development, which offers developmental therapies paid for by insurance, currently in Florida, New Jersey, California, and coming soon to Illinois. Maryanne Nugent is the Chief Operating Officer and the...

DIRFloortime® Summer Camps

DIRFloortime® Summer Camps

This and next week we're talking Floortime Summer Camp with Occupational Therapist, Rosemary White, of The Offices of Rosemary White OTR/L & Associates, just outside of Seattle, who is a DIRFloortime® Expert Training Leader and on the Senior Faculty at Profectum....

Floortime Lifestyle

Floortime Lifestyle

I'm so excited this week to have a superstar mother and daughter Occupational Therapy team, Mili Cordero and Joann Fleckenstein of Individual and Team Therapy Services in Atlanta, which is the...

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