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GUESTS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER BY LAST NAME (CLICK HERE for Parent Perspectives episodes with parent interviews):

MICHELE ABRAHAM-MONTGOMERY, Peer Support Specialist Supervisor

• Part 1: Taking that Step on the Red Carpet
• Part 2: Bridging the Gap in Understanding
• Parent Perspectives: Relationships, Play, and Growth
• Parent Perspectives: Navigating Our Different Support Roles
• Parent Perspectives: Watching Siblings Embrace Autism Together

BETH AMMONS, Physician

• Building Relationships in the Practice of Palliative Care using DIRFloortime®

TAYLOR ANDERSON, Speech-Language Pathologist

• DIR® and Medically Complex Children: Trauma-Informed Care

SOPHIA ASHMAN, DIRFloortime Practitioner

• Let’s Talk About Essential Floortime Dynamics

RICCARDO ATZEI, Neuro and Psychomotor Therapist

• DIR® Dialogues: Becoming a Floortime Practitioner

BROOKES BARRACK, Speech-Language Pathologist

• Gestural Development: The D, the I, and the R
• DIR® Dialogues: Gestalt Language Processing

JACKIE BARTELL, Special Educator

• Inspiring Relating, Communicating, and Thinking At Different Developmental Capacities
• 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
• (Non)Compliance Does Not Equal (Dys)Regulation
• Presuming Competence
• DIR® Dialogues: Floortime Around the World

LISA BASKIN WRIGHT, Educator

• Rewriting the IEP Narrative: The Affirming Village

AMANDA BINNS, Speech-Language Pathologist

• A Review of Developmental Social Pragmatic Interventions
• Supporting the Development of Self-Regulation
• A New Community-Created Resource: SLP MAPs
• DIR® Dialogues: Research Supporting DIRFloortime®

TAMMY BISHOP, Occupational Therapist

• Bicycle Lessons 4 All 

ANNE BORDEN KING, Autistic Self-Advocate

• Autistic Moms Chatting: Moving Forward with Awareness and Action

KELLY BRON JOHNSON, Autistic Self-Advocate

• Autistic Moms Chatting: Moving Forward with Awareness and Action

DARIA BROWN, Parent Advocate

• Gene Christian interviews Affect Autism’s Daria Brown
• We Chose Play: Season 1, Episode 1: In the beginning…
• We Chose Play: Season 1, Episode 2: What did we miss?
• Daria Brown featured guest on the Autistic Culture Podcast Episode 147
• Daria Brown featured guest on the Meet My Autistic Brain Podcast
• Daria Brown featured guest on the Uniquely Human Podcast Episode 141

MARILEE BURGESON, Speech-Language Pathologist

• Communication-Action-Affect (known as W-A-A) in Floortime

TURRELL BURGESS, Autistic Self-Advocate

• My Autism, My Story

GABY CABEZAS, Educator

• Building a DIR® Community in Latin America and Abroad / Construyendo una Comunidad DIR® en América Latina

MARLA CABLE, Educator

• Giant Steps School in Montréal, Québec
• Giant Steps Interdisciplinary Autism Centre

JOHN CARPENTE, Music Therapist

• Floortime Through Music Therapy
• Building Relationships in the Practice of Palliative Care using DIRFloortime®
• Parents Can Connect with their Children Through Musical Interactions
• DIR® Dialogues: An Exploration of Limit-Setting

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 

KERRI CISKOWSKI, Occupational Therapist

• In-Home Floortime Coaching Supports Families
• DIR® Dialogues: Becoming a Floortime Practitioner
• Parent Play Personas

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

• DIRFloortime® and Physical Therapy
• Physical Therapy is Enhanced Using a Floortime Lens 
• Joyfully Together: Collaboration in the DIRFloortime® Approach

DIANE CULLINANE, Physician

• Research Supporting DIRFloortime®

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)

ANGEL BELLE DY, Medical Doctor

• A Model of a Medical DIR® Clinic

STACEY DUFFY, Special Educator

• From Control to Connection: One Educator’s Transformation Through DIRFloortime®

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-Language Pathologist

• The Joy in Communicating
• Promoting Parent Choice

JULIA FELTUS, Educator

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

JOLEEN FERNALD, Speech-Language Pathologist

• The Power of Purposeful Communication 
• Alternative and Augmentative Communication (AAC) Devices
• DIR® Dialogues: Gestalt Language Processing

MIKE FIELDS, Licensed Professional Counselor

• Growth and Gaming 
• ADHD: A VAST Topic
• Why Floortime is Child-Led 
• Creating Opportunities in Floortime 
• Unpacking Aggression
• All About Praxis: Part 1 of 2
• All About Praxis: Part 2 of 2
• DIR® and the Science of Hope
• DIR® Dialogues: Parent Practitioners

JOANN FLECKENSTEIN, Occupational Therapist

• Floortime Lifestyle
• All About Praxis: Part 1 of 2
• All About Praxis: Part 2 of 2

ERIN FORWARD, Speech-Language Pathologist

• DIR® and Medically Complex Children: Trauma-Informed Care
• DIR® Dialogues: Gestalt Language Processing

MARGARET FRASER, Child Inclusion Advocate

• Shared Joy and Agency in Outdoor Play

COLLEEN GABBERT, Occupational Therapist

• Visual Spatial Planning and Assessment (ViSPA) 

SUZANNE GABRIELE, Occupational Therapist

• Joyfully Together: Collaboration in the DIRFloortime® Approach

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
• Revisiting the R: Hidden Regulators in the Development of Relationships
• DIR® Dialogues: Becoming a Floortime Practitioner

ERIC GOLL, Certified Life Coach

• Empowering Ability

KRISTY GOSE, Mental Health Counselor/Specialist

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

BECKY GOTTLIEB, Educator

• Intensives at the DIR® Institute

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
• Let’s Talk About Autism Inclusion this April

JAKE GREENSPAN, Educator

• The Floortime Manual
• Floortime All Day, Anywhere 
• FOODTIME: A Developmental Approach to Picky and Rigid Eating

HELEN GROTH, Special Educator

• The Dynamic Process of Transitions

JEFF GUENZEL, Mental Health and Developmental Counselor

• DIR® Dialogues: Research Supporting DIRFloortime®

SEIUN THOMAS HENDERSON, Educator

• Shared Joy and Agency in Outdoor Play
• Centering Autism Perspectives in Canada

CHRIS HERNANDEZ, Instructional Designer/Ed Tech

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

KASHEENA HOLDER, Special Educator

• Creating Opportunities for Co-Regulatory Support
• Co-Regulation through Affective Signalling
• Bridging the Gap Between Home and School

DESTINY HUFF, Licensed Professional Counselor

• Rewriting the IEP Narrative: The Affirming Village

JUNE ILOWITE, Occupational Therapist

• Fostering Friendships Virtually Using Games

GALINA ITSKOVICH, Social Worker

• Building Relationships in the Practice of Palliative Care using DIRFloortime®
• Access and Choice in NY State for Autism Supports and Services
• Regulating through Trauma

SIBYLLE JANERT, Psychologist

• Following the Child’s Emotional Intent

ADAM JOHNS, Family Therapist

• Critical Core: A Tabletop Role-Playing Game

GRETCHEN KAMKE, Occupational Therapist

• Virtual Floortime Coaching for Parents
• Sensorimotor Profiles in Floortime
• Intensives at the DIR® Institute

NAGWA KHEDR, Early Intervention Specialist

• Affect and Regulation in Middle Eastern Culture 
• DIR® Dialogues: Becoming a Floortime Practitioner

MEGAN KING, Educator

• DIR® Dialogues: Floortime Around the World

ANGELA KINGDON, Autistic Self-Advocate

• Autistic Moms Chatting: Creating Community

ALEX KLEIN, Psychologist

• Neurodiversity-Affirming Care 

ANDREW KLEIN, Occupational Therapist

• Reflective Practice in DIR® 

MICHELE KONG, Physician

• KultureCity: Sensory Accessibility and Inclusion

AMANDA KRIEGEL, Psychologist

• The Heart of DIRFloortime®: The R and Genuine Affect
• Why Floortime is Child-Led

KIM KREDICH, Parent Advocate

• Advocating for Rightful Inclusion in School

CLARE KUMAR, Neuroinclusive Design Strategist

• Neurological Safety and Creating Your Happy Space

SANJAY KUMAR, Occupational Therapist

• The Rubber Band Metaphor in Floortime 

KEITH LANDHERR, Occupational Therapist

• Co-regulation is the Driver for Sensory Integration 
• Gross Motor versus Fine Motor Functions

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 Capacities
• 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
• The Somatosensory System and Tactile Perception
• Visualization Leads to Imagination
• Developing Through FEDC 4 into FEDC 5
• Trauma through a DIR® Lens

EUNICE LEE, Social Worker

• Self-Regulation Starts With Us
• Supporting Parents in DIRFloortime®

RAE LEEPER, Educator

• The Rebecca School: Relationships are the Foundation of Learning

SARI LEVIN, Special Educator

• Kinder Growth DIRFloortime® Medicaid Services

KAREN LEVINE, Developmental Psychologist

• A Floortime Approach to Fears and Phobias

ROBBIE LEVY, Occupational Therapist

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

AMY LEWIS, Occupational Therapist

• (Non)Compliance does not equal (Dys)Regulation

TONIANN LOFTUS, Speech-Language Pathologist

• Bringing DIR® Into the Classroom to Accommodate Communication for All

SANETTE LOUWRENS, Occupational Therapist

• FEDC 4: Complex Communication and Shared Problem Solving
• DIR® Dialogues: An Exploration of Limit-Setting

NICOLE MANK, Marriage and Family Therapist

• The Process of Parenting our Neurodivergent Children

MAHNAZ MAQBOOL, Speech-Language Pathologist

• Harnessing the Power of Narratives to Impact Development
• Joyfully Together: Collaboration in the DIRFloortime® Approach

MAYTHE MARTINEZ, Licensed Psychologist and Early Infant and Childhood Mental Health Specialist

• Senderos: Mexico’s First DIR®-Accredited School / Senderos: La primera escuela acreditada en DIR® de México

AMY MCMUNN, Spelled Communication Practitioner

• Presuming Competence

GABRIELA MICHACA, Licensed School Neuropsychologist

• Floortime Coaching for Different Parenting Styles

JULIE MILLER, Occupational Therapist

• Floortime and Feeding

CATHERINE MURRAY, Clinical Social Worker and Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Specialist

• DIR® Dialogues: An Exploration of Limit-Setting

ROBERT NASEEF, Clinical Psychologist

• From Ambiguous Loss to Acceptance
• Support for Fathers of Children on the Spectrum
• Diagnosing Autism in Girls and Women
• DIR® Dialogues: Parent Practitioners
• Individualizing Support Through a Caring Relationship: Supporting PDA

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
• DIR® Dialogues: Parent Practitioners

GORDON NEUFELD, Developmental Psychologist

• Emotional Playgrounds Foster Emotional Well-Being

SABRINA O’KEEFE, Speech-Language Pathologist

• Gestalt Language Processing and DIR®
• DIR® Dialogues: Parent Practitioners

YUJI OKA, Bodymind Practitioner

• Adapted Spiral Praxis and Movement for the Bodymind Process

PAULA PACHECO, Speech-Language Pathologist

• DIR® Dialogues: Floortime Around the World

ALYSHA PAIARO, Occupational Therapist

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

BRIDGET PALMER, Speech-Language Pathologist

• Parent Support Groups
• Presuming Competence
• DIR® Dialogues: An Exploration of Limit-Setting

RICHARD PARE, Educator

• Giant Steps Interdisciplinary Autism Centre 

AMY PEARSON, Psychology Senior Lecturer

• Autistic Masking or Impression Management? 

STEPHANIE PETERS, Occupational Therapist

• The Realization Phase
• Combining DIRFloortime® and Sensory Integration
• Floortime in the Pool: A Deeper Dive
• Virtual Floortime Coaching for Parents
• Kinder Growth DIRFloortime® Medicaid Services
• A Developmental Perspective on Sharing
• DIR® Dialogues: An Exploration of Limit-Setting

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
• DIR® Dialogues: Becoming a Floortime Practitioner

STEPHEN PORGES, Physiologist

• Polyvagal Theory and Regulating our Bodily State

BARRY PRIZANT, Speech-Language Pathologist

• Uniquely Human

CINDY PUCCIO, Psychologist and Social Worker

• Humour Development in Autism

VALERIE REDEKOPP, Speech-Language Pathologist

• DIR® Dialogues: Parent Practitioners

KHYLIL ROBINSON, Autistic Self-Advocate

• Part 1: Taking that Step on the Red Carpet
• Part 2: Bridging the Gap in Understanding

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
• Autistic Masking or Impression Management?

MICHELLE ROSE, Autistic Parent

• Autistic Moms Chatting: Creating Community

JULIANA ROSS, Creative Arts

• Creative Arts Through Music and Drama 

MICKEY ROWE, Autistic Self-Advocate

• Our Differences are Our Strengths

COLETTE RYAN, Infant 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
• Visual Spatial Planning and Assessment (ViSPA)
• A DIR® Lens on Sleep
• Floortime Supports Parental Self-Efficacy
• DIR® Dialogues: Floortime Around the World

JESSICA SCHMIDT, Speech-Language Pathologist

• DIR® Dialogues: Gestalt Language Processing

MARIBEL SERRANO HOLDER, Speech-Language Pathologist

• Identity Exploration and Finding Your Voice

STUART SHANKER, Educator

• Self-Reg® and DIRFloortime®

JEHAN SHEHATA-ABOUBAKR, Speech-Language Pathologist

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

KATIE SHEPHERD, Speech-Language Pathologist

• FEDC 4: Complex Communication and Shared Problem Solving
• DIR® Dialogues: Gestalt Language Processing

STEPHEN SHORE, Autistic Self-Advocate and Special Education Professor

• Individualizing Support Through a Caring Relationship: Supporting PDA

MELISSA SINACORI, (Special) Educator

• Emotion-seeking and saying “No!”

ANDREA SNYDER, Occupational Therapist

• Nurturing Intentionality as a Bridge to FEDC 4

RICK SOLOMON, Physician

• The P.L.A.Y. Project

CAROLINA SOSA CARRERO, Early Intervention Specialist

• Building a DIR® Community in Latin America and Abroad / Construyendo una Comunidad DIR® en América Latina

VIRGINIA SPIELMANN, Occupational Therapist

• Sensory Lifestyle 
• The Little Scientist: Progression of cause-and-effect play 
• Critical Core: A Tabletop Role-Playing Game
• Redefining the Autism Narrative: Part 1 
• Redefining the Autism Narrative: Part 2 

COURTNEY ST. GERMAIN, Occupational Therapist

• Combining DIRFloortime® and Sensory Integration

TRACY STACKHOUSE, Occupational Therapist

• DIR® Dialogues: Research Supporting DIRFloortime®

MARY BETH STARK, Speech-Language Pathologist

• Pre-Social Abilities Are Pre-Communication

TANYA STEINFELD, Art Teacher & Art Therapist

• Art with Heart: An Open Studio Approach to DIRFloortime®

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

SIMONE TIEMANN, Occupational Therapist

• Waves of Connection: Surfing the Floortime Approach / Olas de Conexión: Surfeando el Enfoque Floortime

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 
• Visual Spatial Planning and Assessment (ViSPA) 

DANE WAGNER, Music Therapist

• Neurodiversity-Affirming Support in DIR®-Informed Music Therapy

MORGAN WEISSMAN, Occupational Therapist

• Emotion-seeking and saying “No!“
• The Heart of DIRFloortime®: 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 DIRFloortime®

ROSEMARY WHITE, Occupational Therapist

• DIRFloortime® Summer Camps 
• A Parent’s Experience of DIRFloortime®

BRUCE WILSON, If I Need Help owner

• If I Need Help

NAOMI WONG, Speech-Language Pathologist

• Nurturing Intentionality as a Bridge to FEDC 4
• DIR® Dialogues: Floortime Around the World​