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BETH AMMONS, Physician

• Building Relationships in the Practice of Palliative Care using DIR/Floortime 

JACKIE BARTELL, Special Educator

• Inspiring relating, communicating, and thinking at different developmental levels
• Applying the DIR Model in a Public School 
• Incorporating DIR Goals into the Individual Education Plan (IEP)
• Can visual prompts about time promote understanding in Floortime?
• Floortime Tips for Behavioural Challenges at School
• Floortime Tips for Behavioural Challenges at Home
• Fostering independence
• Being versus Doing
• The Rubber Band Metaphor in Floortime 
• The Conversation

AMANDA BINNS, Speech and Language Therapist

• A review of Developmental Social Pragmatic interventions
• Supporting the Development of Self-Regulation

MARILEE BURGESON, Speech and Language Therapist

• Words-Action-Affect (W-A-A) in Floortime

TURRELL BURGESS, Autistic Self-Advocate

• My Autism, My Story

MARLA CABLE, Educator

• Giant Steps School in Montréal, Québec

JOHN CARPENTE, Music Therapist

• Floortime through Music Therapy
• Building Relationships in the Practice of Palliative Care using DIR/Floortime 
• Parents can Connect with their Children Through Musical Interactions

BRANDT CHAMBERLAIN, Psychologist

• ‘DIR’ Child & Family Counselling

GENE CHRISTIAN, Mental Health Counselor/Specialist

• From Dysregulation to Intent
• The Importance of Preverbal Affective Signalling
• Gene Christian interviews Affect Autism’s Daria Brown

LORI CIESIELSKI, Occupational Therapist

• Access and Choice in NY State for Autism Supports and Services 

MILI CORDERO, Occupational Therapist

• Floortime Lifestyle

GERRY COSTA, Psychologist

• How do we best prepare our multidisciplinary professionals in the field of autism?

MARY BETH CRAWFORD, Physical Therapist

• DIR/Floortime and Physical Therapy

DIANE CULLINANE, Physician

• Research Supporting DIR/Floortime

ADAM DAVIS, Educator

• Critical Core: A Tabletop Role-Playing Game

ANDREA DAVIS, Psychologist

• A User’s Guide to the Developmental, Individual differences, Relationship-based (DIR) Model 
• Using Self-Reflection as a Tool in Floortime (includes Floortime video)
• Promoting Capacities 4 and 5 with Floortime (includes Floortime video)
• Floortime Feedback (includes Floortime video)
• Floortime Review (includes Floortime video)
• Facilitating Emotional and Logical Thinking: Part 1 (includes Floortime video)
• Facilitating Emotional and Logical Thinking: Part 2 (includes Floortime video)
• Facilitating Emotional and Logical Thinking: Part 3 (includes Floortime video)

JOSH FEDER, Child Psychiatrist

• Repetition in autism therapy: A closer look
• Dhamma and DIR 
• Autism and Medication
• The new Connection Coder app 
• The Move Towards Developmental Approaches
• Supporting Parents in the Process of Accepting Reality
• Positive Development
• Autism and Medication: Part 2 

MELANIE FELLER, Speech and Language Therapist

• The Joy in Communicating
• Promoting Parent Choice

JULIA FELTUS, Educator

• Facilitating process-oriented learning with developmental level in mind: the just-right challenge 

JOLEEN FERNALD, Speech and Language Therapist

• The Power of Purposeful Communication 
• Alternative and Augmentative Communication (AAC) Devices

MIKE FIELDS, Licensed Professional Counselor

• Growth and Gaming 
• ADHD: A VAST Topic
• Why Floortime is Child-Led 
• Creating Opportunities in Floortime 
• Unpacking ‘Aggression’

JOANN FLECKENSTEIN, Occupational Therapist

• Floortime Lifestyle

IRA GLOVINSKY, Psychologist

• A developmental approach overview
• Early Social-Emotional Capacities
• The Foundation for Regulation
• Focusing on regulation
• Interoception: What is your child feeling inside?
• Affect Depends on Interoception

ERIC GOLL, Life Coach

• Empowering Ability

KRISTY GOSE, Mental Health Counselor/Specialist

• Floortime with Family or Small Groups
• Promoting Symbolic Thinking in Small Group Settings 

EMILE GOUWS, Autistic Self-Advocate

• A Self-Advocate’s Inspiring Journey 
• Examining the Experience of Autistic Students in Higher Education
• The World’s First International Concert to Celebrate Neurodiversity

HELEN GROTH, Special Educator

• The Dynamic Process of ‘Transitions’

CHRIS HERNANDEZ, Instructional Designer/Ed Tech

• The Future is Here: Fostering Neurodiverse Students’ Media Literacy

KASHEENA HOLDER, Special Educator

• Creating Opportunities for Co-Regulatory Support

SUSAN HOPKINS, Special Educator

• The New Co-Reg Community

JUNE ILOWITE, Occupational Therapist

• Fostering Friendships Virtually Using Games

GALINA ITSKOVICH, Social Worker

• Building Relationships in the Practice of Palliative Care using DIR/Floortime 
• Access and Choice in NY State for Autism Supports and Services

ADAM JOHNS, Family Therapist

• Critical Core: A Tabletop Role-Playing Game

GRETCHEN KAMKE, Occupational Therapist

• Virtual Floortime Coaching for Parents
• Sensorimotor Profiles in Floortime

MICHELE KONG, Physician

• KultureCity: Sensory Accessibility and Inclusion

AMANDA KRIEGEL, Psychologist

• The Heart of DIR/Floortime: The ‘R’ and Genuine Affect
• Why Floortime is Child-Led

ALEX KLEIN, Psychologist

• Neurodiversity-Affirming Care 

SANJAY KUMAR, Occupational Therapist

• The Rubber Band Metaphor in Floortime 

KEITH LANDHERR, Occupational Therapist

• Co-regulation is the Driver for Sensory Integration 

MAUDE LE ROUX, Occupational Therapist

• The Building Blocks of Motor Planning 
• Developmental growth spurts: What to expect 
• Maude Le Roux’s new Functional Developmental Autism Assessment Protocol
• Attention and Executive Function
• Inspiring relating, communicating, and thinking at different developmental levels
• Theory of Mind is Developmental
• Remediation versus Accommodation 
• Regulation Challenges through the Developmental Capacities 
• A Closer Look at Impulsivity 
• ADHD: A VAST Topic
• Going Slower to Move Faster 
• The Impact of Vestibular Processing on Development
• The Complexity of Vision and Visual Processing

EUNICE LEE, Social Worker

• Self-Regulation Starts With Us
• Supporting Parents in DIR/Floortime

RAE LEEPER, Educator

• The Rebecca School: Relationships are the Foundation of Learning

SARI LEVIN, Special Educator

• Kinder Growth DIR/Floortime Medicaid Services

ROBBIE LEVY, Occupational Therapist

• Sensory Ingredients and Dynamic Responsivity
• Enriching Sensory and Motor Experiences at Home

NICOLE MANK, Marriage and Family Therapist

• The Process of Parenting our Neurodivergent Children

JULIE MILLER, Occupational Therapist

• Floortime and Feeding

ROBERT NASEEF, Psychologist

• From Ambiguous Loss to Acceptance
• Support for Fathers of Children on the Spectrum

DAVE NELSON, Licensed Professional Counselor

• Process-oriented learning inspires relating, communicating, and thinking 
• Threshold Community Program: DIR for adolescents and young adults
• Online Schooling and Services during a Pandemic
• And then comes puberty…
• Curiosity as a Driver of Connection and Interaction in Adolescence

GORDON NEUFELD, Developmental Psychologist

• Emotional Playgrounds Foster Emotional Well-Being

ALYSHA PAIARO, Occupational Therapist

• A Developmental Approach to Toileting: Part 1
• A Developmental Approach to Toileting: Part 2 

BRIDGET PALMER, Speech and Language Therapist

• Parent Support Groups

STEPHANIE PETERS, Occupational Therapist

• The Realization Phase
• Combining DIR/Floortime and Sensory Integration
• Floortime in the Pool: A Deeper Dive
• Virtual Floortime Coaching for Parents
• Kinder Growth DIR/Floortime Medicaid Services

KATHY PLATZMAN, Psychologist 

• How a caregiver’s regulation affects the child’s regulation
• Avoiding the blame in Floortime
• Navigating our therapy teams and social circles 
• Am I Neurodivergent Like My Child?
• Constrictions in Developmental Capacities

STEPHEN PORGES, Physiologist

• Polyvagal Theory and Regulating our Bodily State

BARRY PRIZANT, Speech and Language Therapist

• Uniquely Human

CINDY PUCCIO, Psychologist and Social Worker

• Humour Development in Autism

KIERAN ROSE, Autistic Self-Advocate

• Redefining the Autism Narrative: Part 1 
• Redefining the Autism Narrative: Part 2 
• Good Intentions Creating Unseen Stigma 
• Part 1: To Whom Should Parents Listen?
• Part 2: Adult Diagnosis and What it Means

JULIANA ROSS, Creative Arts

• Creative Arts Through Music and Drama 

COLETTE RYAN, Mental Health Counselor/Specialist

• Meaning Making 
• Recognizing and documenting our children’s communication cues
• Approaching Pre-Academics with Floortime
• Virtual Floortime Coaching for Parents
• The Impact of Cognitive Load on Relating, Communicating, and Thinking
• Gauging our Developmental Capacities: Part 1
• Gauging our Developmental Capacities: Part 2 
• The Conversation

MARIBEL SERRANO HOLDER, Speech and Language Therapist

• Identity Exploration and Finding Your Voice

STUART SHANKER, Educator

• Self-Reg and DIR/Floortime

JEHAN SHEHATA-ABOUBAKR, Speech and Language Therapist

• What is scripting all about?
• What to Expect from a Developmentally-Based Speech and Language Pathologist

MELISSA SINACORI, (Special) Educator

• Emotion-seeking and saying “No!“

RICK SOLOMON, Physician

• The P.L.A.Y. Project

VIRGINIA SPIELMANN, Occupational Therapist

• Sensory Lifestyle 
• The Little Scientist: Progression of cause-and-effect play 
• Critical Core: A Tabletop Role-Playing Game

COURTNEY ST. GERMAIN, Occupational Therapist

• Combining DIR/Floortime and Sensory Integration

MARY BETH STARK, Speech and Language Therapist

• Pre-Linguistics are Pre-Social Abilities

SERENA SUMAN, Functional Psychomotorist

• Individual differences and Floortime in the Pool

JULIA SWAIGEN, Social Worker

• Your Growth is your Child’s Growth: Strength in Relationships

GIL TIPPY, Psychologist

• Foundation Academics: What is it?
• Moving Up and Down Developmentally
• Setting appropriate limits and expectations by respecting where your child is at, developmentally
• Process-oriented learning inspires relating, communicating, and thinking 
• Strategies Don’t Support Growth 
• Dirty Hands Developmental Alliance
• Good Autism Education is just Good Education
• Floortime is also Adolescent- and Adult-Led

TONI TORTORA, Occupational Therapist

• Access and Choice in NY State for Autism Supports and Services 

MORGAN WEISSMAN, Occupational Therapist

• Emotion-seeking and saying “No!“
• The Heart of DIR/Floortime: The ‘R’ and Genuine Affect
• Fostering Friendships Virtually Using Games

DONNIE WELCH, Creative Arts

• Sensory and Developmental Poetry Workshops
• Art with Heart: An Open Studio Approach to DIR/Floortime

ROSEMARY WHITE, Occupational Therapist

• DIR/Floortime Summer Camps 
• A Parent’s Experience of DIR/Floortime