by D. Brown | Jul 27, 2020 | DIR Theory, Podcast, Video podcast
Colette Ryan joins us this week to discuss meaning making. She is a Expert Training Leader in the Developmental, Individual-differences, Relationship-based (DIR) Model with the International Council on Development and Learning (ICDL), the Parent Support Specialist at...
by D. Brown | Mar 16, 2020 | DIR Theory, Video blog
What is DIR? What is Floortime? While everyone is hunkering down and practicing social distancing, let’s focus on what we know about Floortime: Floortime is about shared joy Floortime is about staying in the moment Floortime is about connection Floortime...
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 What is DIR? What is Floortime? 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...
by D. Brown | Oct 14, 2019 | DIR Theory, Podcast, Video podcast
Photo: Michal Parzuchowski What is DIR? What is Floortime? Occupational therapist Maude Le Roux returns this week to discuss how regulation changes across the Functional Emotional Developmental Capacities (FEDCs) in the Developmental, Individual differences,...
by D. Brown | Sep 30, 2019 | DIR Theory, Podcast, Video podcast
Photo: MI PHAM What is DIR? What is Floortime? 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...
