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Parent Play Personas
PHOTO CREDIT: @TherapyKeeperEpisode 295On this episode, number 295, DIRFloortime® Expert Training Leader Kerri Ciskowski joins us to discuss different parent play personas she sees in her clientele. Kerri has been an occupational therapist for 20 years. She does...
Neurological Safety and Creating Your Happy Space
PHOTO CREDIT: Clare KumarOn Episode 294...Clare Kumar is a late-diagnosed AuDHD mother of two young adults in Toronto, Canada. After twenty years as a productivity and organization coach, today, Clare spends her time and energy thinking more collectively about...
Rewriting the IEP Narrative: The Affirming Village
PHOTO CREDIT: The Affirming VillageOn Episode 293...This episode features a new empowering podcast called The Affirming Village which focuses on creating more neuroaffirming spaces for neurodivergent and disabled learners--a topic that comes up regularly at ICDL's...
Daria Brown Featured Guest on the Uniquely Human Podcast Episode 141
PHOTO CREDIT: Uniquely Human PodcastDaria Brown was featured as a guest on the September 26, 2025 episode of the Uniquely Human Podcast entitled, "Choosing a Developmental and Relationship Play-based Approach over ABA: A Discussion with Daria Brown."From the Uniquely...
Autistic Moms Chatting: Moving Forward with Awareness and Action
Autistic Moms ChattingThis marks the second edition of Autistic Moms Chatting from Affect Autism. This episode features two autistic mothers of autistic sons and autistic and disability advocates living Canada. Autistic Moms Chatting is an addition to the usual...
Bridging the Gap Between Home and School
PHOTO CREDIT: Ksenia ChernayaOn Episode 291...This episode I'm airing a year-old presentation made by the late, great DIRFloortime® Expert Training Leader and phenomenal educator, Kasheena Holder. I hope you will enjoy the tips she provided our DIR® Parent Network...
Let’s Talk About Essential Floortime Dynamics
PHOTO CREDIT: RDNE Stock project 10-YEAR ANNIVERSARY EPISODE On this Episode...This episode, number 290, the first episode of Season 11, features Sophia Ashman, a DIR® practitioner in Los Angeles, California who currently works in preschools and provides...
Construyendo una Comunidad DIR® en América Latina
CRÉDITO DE LA FOTO: Caleidoscopio*NUEVO Reuniones de apoyo para padres en español, quincenales los viernes a la 12:00 PM, hora del Este, facilitado por la madre Mary Santiago (Spanish parent support meetings, bi-weekly on Fridays at 1:00 PM Eastern time facilitated by...
Building a DIR® Community in Latin America and Abroad
PHOTO CREDIT: CaleidoscopioOn this Episode...Carolina Sosa Carrero is an educator in music, movement, and language with a Master's degree in early intervention and child development. She is a very enthusiastic student of regulation and communication (having taken a...
A Model of a Medical DIR® Clinic
PHOTO CREDIT: Los Muertos CrewOn this Episode...Dr. Angel Belle Dy is a DIRFloortime® Expert Training Leader in the Philippines who started The Growing Brain PH, a DIR® accredited clinic that began as a social media page. She is a medical doctor who has a background...
Autistic Moms Chatting: Creating Community
Autistic Moms ChattingThis marks the first edition of Autistic Moms Chatting from Affect Autism. This episode features two autistic mothers and autistic advocates living in the United Kingdom. Autistic Moms Chatting is an addition to the usual podcast episodes.You can...
Daria Brown featured guest on the Meet My Autistic Brain Podcast
PHOTO CREDIT: Meet My Autistic Brain PodcastDaria Brown was featured as a guest on the August 25, 2025 episode of Meet My Autistic Brain Podcast entitled, "Connecting Through Play."From the Meet My Autistic Brain Podcast description: Daria Brown, author of We Chose...
DIR® Dialogues: Gestalt Language Processing
PHOTO CREDIT: Arina KrasnikovaDIR® DialoguesThis marks the fifth edition of DIR® Dialogues from Affect Autism. These episodes feature practitioner panels–this one featuring five Speech-Language Pathologist DIRFloortime® Expert Training Leaders exploring Gestalt...
Individualizing Support Through a Caring Relationship: Supporting PDA
PHOTO CREDIT: cottonbro studioOn this Episode...Dr. Robert Naseef and Dr. Stephen Shore have worked on various projects together over the years, including internationally, and have known each other since the mid-1990s. They have recently published an article in Autism...
Senderos: La primera escuela acreditada en DIR® de México
CRÉDITO DE LA FOTO: Senderos*NUEVO Reuniones de apoyo para padres en español, quincenales los viernes a la 12:00 PM, hora del Este, facilitado por la madre Mary Santiago Puedes registrarte uniéndote a la Red de Padres DIR aquíEn este episodio...Maythe Martinez es una...
Senderos: Mexico’s First DIR®-Accredited School
PHOTO CREDIT: SenderosOn this Episode...Maythe Martinez is a DIRFloortime® Expert Training Leader in Merida, Mexico where she opened a DIR-accredited DIRFloortime® school called "Senderos" which means "path" in English. Maythe is a licensed psychologist and an early...
Daria Brown featured guest on the Autistic Culture Podcast Episode 147
PHOTO CREDIT: Autistic Culture PodcastDaria Brown was featured as a guest on the Autistic Culture Podcast. Episode 147 is entitled, "Pillar 8: Predictably Comforting."From the Autistic Culture Podcast description: An episode that is not about inflexibility—it’s about...
DIR® Dialogues: An Exploration of Limit-Setting
PHOTO CREDIT: August de RichelieuDIR® DialoguesThis marks the fourth edition of DIR® Dialogues from Affect Autism! These episodes feature practitioner panels–this one featuring five DIRFloortime® Expert Training Leaders exploring considerations around setting limits...
Parent Perspectives: Powerful Insights From a Floortime Intensive
PHOTO CREDIT: ICDL, Inc. On this Episode...This edition of Parent Perspectives features a full-time mother, passionate advocate, and deep thinker, navigating life through the lens of a late ADHD diagnosis with her neurodivergent family. We discuss her family's...
DIR® Dialogues: Becoming a Floortime Practitioner
PHOTO CREDIT: Yan KrukauDIR® DialoguesThis marks the third edition of DIR® Dialogues from Affect Autism! These episodes feature practitioner panels–this one featuring five international DIRFloortime® Expert Training Leaders discussing moving from being someone "doing...
Bicycle Lessons 4 All
PHOTO CREDIT: Yan KrukovThis episode's guest is Tammy Bishop in Florida who has been an occupational therapist since 1999. She operates a service called Bicycle Lessons 4 All where she teaches autistic kids and individuals of all abilities to ride a bicycle. We met...
Pre-Social Abilities Are Pre-Communication
PHOTO CREDIT: Jason LeungMary Beth Stark joins us this episode from Atlanta where she has been a speech and language pathologist for over 40 years at Floortime Atlanta and is a DIRFloortime® Expert Training Leader. Our topic is about pre-social abilities as...
Neurodiversity-Affirming Support in DIR®-Informed Music Therapy
PHOTO CREDIT: cottonbro studioThis Episode's GuestDane Wagner is a music therapist at Celebrate the Children, a DIRFloortime® school in New Jersey, who has been working with the autistic population for 12 years. He started his Floortime journey as an intern at the...
Olas de Conexión: Surfeando el Enfoque Floortime
CRÉDITO DE LA FOTO: Disfrutar El Mar*NUEVO Reuniones de apoyo para padres en español, quincenales los viernes a la 1:00 PM, hora del Este, facilitado por la madre Mary Santiago (Spanish parent support meetings, bi-weekly on Fridays at 1:00 PM Eastern time facilitated...
Waves of Connection: Surfing the Floortime Approach
CRÉDITO DE LA FOTO: Disfrutar El MarOn this Episode...Simone Tiemann is a Floortime-trained sensory integration occupational therapist on the north coast of Spain in Santander who sees clients with developmental challenges and differences in her clinic and runs an...
Let’s Talk About Autism Inclusion this April
On this Episode...The International Council on Development and Learning (ICDL) Board President, Autistic self-advocate, Dr. Emile Gouws and I discuss April's month of autism awareness, acceptance, and appreciation, and the need to move towards action and inclusion....
Perspectivas de los Padres: Reuniones de Apoyo para Padres Floortime
CRÉDITO DE LA FOTO: Emma Bauso*NUEVO Reuniones de apoyo para padres en español, quincenales los viernes a la 1:00 PM, hora del Este, facilitado por la madre Mary Santiago (Spanish parent support meetings, bi-weekly on Fridays at 1:00 PM Eastern time facilitated by...
DIR® Dialogues: Floortime Around the World
PHOTO CREDIT: Mikhail NilovDIR® DialoguesThis marks the second edition of DIR® Dialogues from Affect Autism! This new branch of the podcast features practitioner panels–this one featuring five international DIRFloortime® Expert Training Leaders discussing Floortime...
Joyfully Together: Collaboration in the DIRFloortime® Approach
PHOTO CREDIT: Baby Steps TherapyOn this Episode...The therapy trio from Baby Steps Therapy, a DIR® clinic offering physical therapy, speech therapy and occupational therapy in the suburbs of Philadelphia, is here to discuss their collaborative Floortime approach used...
Following the Child’s Emotional Intent
PHOTO CREDIT: RDNE Stock projectThis Episode's GuestGerman Psychologist Sibylle Janert is a DIRFloortime® Expert and Training Leader who teaches DIR® courses in the UK in English and in German in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. She also offers Floortime coaching to...
Parent Perspectives: Finding and Holding on to Floortime
PHOTO CREDIT: Vika GlitterOn this Episode...On this edition of Parent Perspectives, I am interviewing three Buffalo area families about their struggles finding, accessing, and keeping DIRFloortime® services and how it has changed their view of their neurodivergent...
DIR® Dialogues: Parent Practitioners
PHOTO CREDIT: Kampus ProductionA New Podcast!This marks the first edition of DIR® Dialogues from Affect Autism! This new focus will include practitioner panels–the first episode featuring parent practitioners! DIR® Dialogues will be an addition to the usual episodes....
DIR® and the Science of Hope
PHOTO CREDIT: Pixabay On Episode 269...My returning guest is Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC), Mike Fields, who is an Expert Developmental, Individual differences, Relationship-based (DIR®) Training Leader at several clinics including a Across All Ages, a new...
Parent Perspectives: Floortime Intensives at the DIR® Institute
PHOTO CREDIT: ICDL, Inc.On this Episode...This episode we are covering intensives at ICDL's DIR® Institute in New Jersey where families come for a week to just do Floortime and get Floortime parent coaching. My guests are two mothers of two children each. Daniela...
Intensives at the DIR® Institute
PHOTO CREDIT: ICDL, Inc.On this Episode...On this episode, my guests are Educator Becky Gottlieb, who is the Floortime Intensives Program Coordinator at ICDL's DIR® Institute in New Jersey, and Occupational Therapist, Gretchen Kamke, who is ICDL's Accreditation...
Floortime Supports Parental Self-Efficacy
PHOTO CREDIT: Affect AutismOn this Episode...My returning guest is Dr. Colette Ryan, an Infant Mental Health Specialist who is a DIRFloortime® Expert Training Leader and who is part of a group starting up a new Floortime school in Toyko, Japan, called the...
Diagnosing Autism in Girls and Women
This Episode's TopicThere's been a lot of talk about how autistic girls are not recognized and diagnosed and on social media around many women being diagnosed as autistic after their children are diagnosed. Dr. Robert Naseef has been diagnosing children and adults...
Co-Regulation through Affective Signalling
PHOTO CREDIT: Monstera ProductionOn this Episode...I am absolutely thrilled to have returning guest, Educator Kasheena Holder back, who is a DIRFloortime® Expert Training Leader with the International Council on Development and Learning and owner and director of...
Gestural Development: The D, the I, and the R
PHOTO CREDIT: Ketut SubiyantoOn this Episode...Brookes Barrack is a Speech-Language Pathologist and DIRFloortime® Expert Training Leader who has a clinic just outside of Kansas City, Kansas with Occupational Therapist Emily Tritz called Kansas City Developmental...
In-Home Floortime Coaching Supports Families
PHOTO CREDIT: Gustavo FringThis Episode's GuestKerri Ciskowski is a DIRFloortime® Expert and Occupational Therapist in central New Jersey who does in-home support through her service Therapy Keeper for families who are typically raising autistic kids. She is a happily...
Bringing DIR® Into the Classroom to Accommodate Communication for All
PHOTO CREDIT: Tima MiroshnichenkoOn this Episode...ToniAnn Loftus is DIRFloortime® Expert and Speech-Language Pathologist. She trained at the Rebecca School and now owns and operates Seaport Speech and Feeding, a clinic in Manhattan. This episode we are discussing...
Trauma through a DIR® Lens
PHOTO CREDIT: NEOSiAM 2024+This Episode's TopicThe topic of this episode is trauma through a DIR® lens. Maude Le Roux recently did a course on this topic through the International Council on Development and Learning and here she covers how to work with trauma clients...
Developing Through FEDC 4 into FEDC 5
PHOTO CREDIT: cottonbro studioThis Episode's TopicThe topic of this episode is to give an overview and review of the fourth Functional Emotional Developmental Capacity (FEDC 4) of the Developmental, Individual differences, and Relationship (DIR®) model from last...
FEDC 4: Complex Communication and Shared Problem-Solving
PHOTO CREDIT: Mikhail NilovThis Episode's TopicThe topic of this episode is functional emotional developmental capacity (FEDC) 4 of the Developmental, Individual differences, and Relationship (DIR®) model based on the presentation our guests in March at the New York...
Nurturing Intentionality as a Bridge to FEDC 4
PHOTO CREDIT: Anna ShvetsThis Episode's TopicThis episode we are discussing intentionality in functional emotional developmental capacity (FEDC) 3, which is Intentionality and Two-Way Communication in the Developmental, Individual differences, and Relationship (DIR®)...
A DIR® Lens on Sleep
PHOTO CREDIT: Ketut SubiyantoOn Episode 256...This episode's topic is one that is a top request by parents: sleep. I covered it a bit with Dr. Joshua Feder in a previous podcast. Although neither this episode's guest nor I are sleep experts, we want to come at the...
Giant Steps Interdisciplinary Autism Centre
PHOTO CREDIT: Giant Steps Autism CentreOn this Episode...I’m speaking with Marla Cable, the Assistant Director of the Resource and Training Centre at Giant Steps Interdisciplinary Autism Centre in Montreal, Quebec, which houses the developmental approach,...
Reflective Practice in DIR®
PHOTO CREDIT: Christina MorilloOn Episode 254...Andrew Klein is a DIRFloortime® Expert Training Leader and a pediatric Occupational Therapist at Emerge Pediatric Therapy in Durham, North Carolina where he has a specialized role in facilitating reflective supervision...
DIR® and Medically Complex Children: Trauma-Informed Care
PHOTO CREDIT: Nicola BartsOn this Episode...This episode features DIRFloortime® Expert Training Leader Erin Forward, a Speech-Language Pathologist and certified lactation counselor at Cincinnati Children's Hospital. She is a part of their interdisciplinary feeding...
Advocating for Rightful Inclusion in School
Photo above: The Kredich boys performing at school.On Episode 252...This episode features Floortime parent advocate Kim Kredich who has served as a volunteer advocate for hundreds of students with disabilities in East Tennessee, working with families to help their...
Affect and Regulation in Middle Eastern Culture
On this Episode...This episode features DIRFloortime® Expert Training Leader Nagwa Khedr, who is an early intervention specialist in Cairo, Egypt. She's been practicing DIRFloortime® since 2014 and was involved recently in opening a DIRFloortime® Center there called...
If I Need Help
On Episode 250...For this episode, I step outside of the DIRFloortime® world to showcase If I Need Help, a non profit that reunites those who might become lost, disoriented, or need assistance in a critical moment with their families, loved ones, and caregivers using...
Presuming Competence
PHOTO CREDIT: Kat Wilcox On Episode 249...This episode features returning guests, Special Educator Jackie Bartell and Speech Language Pathologist Bridget Palmer who are both DIRFloortime® Expert Training Leaders and teach courses at ICDL. Amy McMunn is the mother of...
A Developmental Perspective on Sharing
PHOTO CREDIT: Vika Glitter On this Episode...This episode, returning guest Occupational Therapist Stephanie Peters, DIRFloortime® Expert Training Leader and Clinical Director with Kinder Growth, discusses the developmental considerations around sharing.You can also...
Gestalt Language Processing and DIR®
PHOTO CREDIT: Tara WinsteadOn Episode 247...This episode, Speech-Language Pathologist Sabrina O'Keefe, DIRFloortime® Expert Training Leader, discusses Gestalt Language Processing within a Developmental, Individual differences, Relationship-based (DIR®) framework,...
Parent Perspectives: Navigating Our Different Support Roles
PHOTO CREDIT: James GanaParent PerspectivesOn this edition of Parent Perspectives from Affect Autism, we have a discussion with a mother and grandmother of an autistic son and autistic grandson about navigating her support roles. Parent Perspectives is an addition to...
Parent Perspectives: Parent Self-Regulation
PHOTO CREDIT: Ketut SubiyantoParent PerspectivesOn this edition of Parent Perspectives from Affect Autism, we have a parent discussion with an autistic parent of two autistic daughters about parent self-regulation with some great examples. Parent Perspectives is an...
Revisiting the R: Hidden Regulators in the Development of Relationships
PHOTO CREDIT: Royal Opera HouseOn this Episode...This episode, I bring you the live recording we did at the International Council on Development and Learning (ICDL) 2023 International DIRFloortime® Conference where I interviewed Dr. Ira Glovinsky who is a Clinical...
Parent Perspectives: Parents Listening to Autistic Self-Advocates
A New Podcast!This week is another edition of Parent Perspectives from Affect Autism! I thought it would be helpful for parents and practitioners to hear some of the things we discuss at ICDL's parent support meeting. Parent Perspectives is an addition to the usual...
Regulating through Trauma
This Episode's TopicThis episode we are discussing grounding techniques, using emotionally meaningful objects, affect cueing when we're grounding and being aware of ourselves so we can co-regulate to down-regulate our partner, and setting our expectations, all in the...
Autistic Masking or Impression Management?
This Episode's TopicIn this episode, we discuss Dr. Amy Pearson and Kieran Rose's newly published book entitled, Autistic Masking: Understanding Identity Management and the Role of Stigma. We discuss what autistic masking is, compare the topic of "impression...
Parent Perspectives: Retrospective Perspective
Parent PerspectivesOn this edition of Parent Perspectives from Affect Autism, we have another parent panel! Parent Perspectives is an addition to the usual podcasts.This edition of Parent Perspectives features three mothers of autistic daughters, including one who is...
Visual Spatial Planning and Assessment (ViSPA)
This Episode's TopicIn this episode, we discuss the ViSPA, the Visual Spatial Planning & Assessment, which is a tool used to organize activities from the book Thinking Goes to School by Dr. Hans Furth and Dr. Harry Wachs. The ViSPA follows the Thinking Goes to...
Visualization Leads to Imagination
PHOTO CREDIT: Jessica Rockowitz on UnsplashThis Episode's GuestOccupational Therapist Maude Le Roux is a DIRFloortime® Expert Training Leader and has a DIR® clinic, A Total Approach, in Glen Mills, PA, just outside Philadelphia and they are opening a satellite...
Parent Perspectives: Relationships, Play, and Growth
Parent PerspectivesOn this edition of Parent Perspectives from Affect Autism, we have another parent panel! Parent Perspectives is an addition to the usual podcasts.You can also subscribe on your preferred podcast app by searching, "We chose play from Affect...
Parent Perspectives: Navigating our Health and Education Systems
A New Podcast!On this edition of Parent Perspectives from Affect Autism, we have our first parent panel! Parent Perspectives is an addition to the usual DIR®-related podcasts with other guests. I hope you enjoy them!You can also subscribe on your preferred podcast app...
Harnessing the Power of Narratives to Impact Development
This Episode's Topic This episode, we’re discussing personal narratives and harnessing their power to impact the Functional Emotional Developmental Capacities (FEDCs) including expanding emotional language, the concept of hindsight (e.g., should I have reacted that...
(Non)Compliance Does Not Equal (Dys)Regulation
This Episode's TopicCompliance is often mistaken for readiness to learn, but compliance does not equal regulation, and regulation is necessary for learning. On the flip side, dysregulation is often seen as noncompliance. In this episode, we discuss the connection...
A New Community-Created Resource: SLP MAPs
On this Episode...This episode's guest is Amanda Binns, a clinician scientist who has her PhD and is also a Speech and Language Pathologist. She's currently the co-lead at Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital of a student-led environment designed to support...
Parent Perspectives: How Do We Handle Fears and Anxiety?
A New Podcast!This marks the first edition of Parent Perspectives from Affect Autism! I thought it would be helpful for parents and practitioners to hear some of the things we discuss at ICDL's parent support meeting, which happens Mondays at 1pm Eastern time. This...
Adapted Spiral Praxis and Movement for the Bodymind Process
On this Episode...This episode I am thrilled to interview Yuji Oka of the Spiral Movement Center in Toronto where my son went for their MOVEMENT program weekly for many years up until the Pandemic. Yuji is the founder and a practitioner of Adapted Spiral Praxis which...
All About Praxis: Part 2 of 2
PHOTO CREDIT: Mika Baumeister on UnsplashOn this Episode...Occupational Therapist, Joann Fleckenstein, and Licensed Professional Counselor, Mike Fields, both of Individual and Team Therapy Services in Atlanta and Expert Developmental, Individual differences,...
All About Praxis: Part 1 of 2
PHOTO CREDIT: Mika Baumeister on UnsplashOn this Episode...Occupational Therapist, Joann Fleckenstein, and Licensed Professional Counselor, Mike Fields, both of Individual and Team Therapy Services in Atlanta and Expert Developmental, Individual differences,...
A Floortime Approach to Fears and Phobias
On this Episode...Dr. Karen Levine is a Developmental Psychologist and a Developmental, Individual differences, Relationship-based (DIR®) model Expert based in Maine. She has a private practice specializing in treating young children, both neurodivergent and...
Floortime Coaching for Different Parenting Styles
PHOTO CREDIT: Annie SprattOn this Episode...This episode I welcome Gabriela Michaca who is a licensed school neuropsychologist and also just received her master's degree in Occupational Therapy and is a Developmental, Individual differences, Relationship-based (DIR®)...
The Somatosensory System and Tactile Perception
PHOTO CREDIT: Annie SprattOn this Episode...Occupational Therapist Maude Le Roux is back again this episode to discuss the sense of touch, or tactile perception, part of the I, individual differences in the Developmental, Individual differences, Relationship-based...
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
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
PHOTO CREDIT: Rhendi RukmanaThis Episode's TopicWe're back this episode with Dr. Joshua Feder, a child and family psychiatrist in Solana Beach, California. We did an episode on autism and medication a few years back and this is part 2 because there is a new Child...
Emotional Playgrounds Foster Emotional Well-Being
This Week's TopicThis episode, I am over the moon excited to have Developmental Psychologist Gordon Neufeld as my guest to discuss emotional well-being (versus "mental health") and rethinking "play" in terms of emotional playgrounds--the heart of a culture of...
Curiosity as a Driver of Connection and Interaction in Adolescence
This Episode's TopicIn our last podcast episode back in 2019, Dave Nelson and I discussed puberty and how we can best support our kids in a respectful way using a developmental approach. In this episode, we want to continue on that topic by touching on the...
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
PHOTO CREDIT: Markus Spiske on UnsplashOn Episode's 219...This 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
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
This Episode's TopicThis episode, in Part 2, Kieran Rose and I discuss late diagnosis and what it means. In Part 1 last episode, we discussed a number of topics around neurodiversity including who to listen to as parents when our child is diagnosed with so many...
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...
The Process of Parenting our Neurodivergent Children
This Episode's TopicThis episode we're discussing the parenting process, the intersection of the parenting experience and Nicole Mank's professional world, and how one shaped the other. Nicole discovered the book Engaging Autism when her son was seven which shaped how...
Part 2: Bridging the Gap in Understanding
This Week's TopicThis episode is Part 2 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 Practices,...
Part 1: Taking that Step on the Red Carpet
PHOTO CREDIT: shutterstock.comOn Episode 213...Joining us this episode 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,...
The Complexity of Vision and Visual Processing
This Episode's TopicOccupational Therapist Maude Le Roux returns to dive into the visual system—covering vision and visual processing—as a follow-up to our earlier podcast episode on the vestibular system. In the DIR® model (Developmental, Individual differences,...
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
This Week's GuestReturning guest, DIR® Expert Training Leader and Licensed Professional Counsellor, Mike Fields, joins us to discuss aggression. We'll cover praxis, regulation and co-regulation, neuroception (i.e., the body scanning the environment for safety), limit...
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
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
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...
Parents can Connect with their Children Through Musical Interactions
This Week's GuestCoaching parents how to do Floortime through musical interactions is today’s topic with returning guest, Music Therapist, Dr. John Carpente who is a DIR Expert and Training Leader, a Professor of Music Therapy at Molloy University, and founder and...
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...
Your Growth is your Child’s Growth: Strength in Relationships
This Week's GuestJulia Swaigen is a registered social worker in Toronto, Ontario, Canada who founded and directs Attuned Families, a clinic to help families harness the power of relationships so that parents find peace and children thrive. They offer Family Therapy,...
The World’s First International Concert to Celebrate Neurodiversity
This Week's GuestAutistic Self-Advocate, Emile Gouws, returns this week to announce the world's first international concert to celebrate neurodiversity, Diversity is Phenomenal!, being held on May 14, 2022 online, and is sponsored by the International Council on...
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...
