by D. Brown | Feb 26, 2020 | DIR Theory, Video blog
unsplash-logoPhoto: Riccardo Mion Today children are wearing pink at school to denote Anti-Bullying day. I posted a couple of videos with some extra thoughts about what to focus on today, and how the DIR Model can guide how we approach this complicated...
by D. Brown | Dec 23, 2019 | DIR Practice, DIR Theory, Podcast, Video podcast
Photo: Jason Leung Mary Beth Stark joins us this week from Atlanta where she has been a speech and language pathologist for over 40 years at Floortime Atlanta and is a DIR/Floortime Expert Training Leader. She recently wrote a piece in the newsletter for the...
by D. Brown | Oct 14, 2019 | DIR Theory, Podcast, Video podcast
Photo: Michal Parzuchowski Occupational therapist Maude Le Roux returns this week to discuss how regulation changes across the functional emotional developmental capacities in the Developmental, Individual differences, Relationship-based (DIR) Model. Maude runs A...
by D. Brown | Sep 30, 2019 | DIR Theory, Podcast, Video podcast
Photo: MI PHAM This week, mental health counsellor and DIR Expert Training Leader, Gene Christian in Spokane, Washington is back with us to reiterate the importance of the preverbal affective gestural system to development. Gene says that this preverbal affective...
by D. Brown | May 27, 2019 | DIR Theory, Podcast, Video podcast
Photo: Annie Spratt Joining us this week is Jehan Shehata-Aboubakr, a speech and language pathologist at Clinical Communication Consultants in Thornhill, Ontario (just north of Toronto) where she practices with a functional pragmatic and DIR/Floortime approach. She is...
by D. Brown | May 6, 2019 | Developmental interventions, DIR Practice, DIR Theory
Photo: Aaron Mello Key Take-Aways Play has been the new buzzword making a comeback in early child development (go figure), but there are many misconceptions about what play actually is. A new series of courses from the Neufeld Institute that I have been taking shed...
