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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...
Gauging our Developmental Capacities: Part 1
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...
DIRFloortime® and Physical Therapy
This Episode's GuestMary Beth Crawford is a licensed Physical therapist and DIRFloortime® Expert Training Leader who founded Baby Steps Therapy in 2008. Mary Beth regularly provides lectures and in-service training to numerous parent groups, and medical professionals...
Creating Opportunities for Co-Regulatory Support
Sometimes the biggest challenge parents have with their autistic children who have meltdowns is meeting the child emotionally and connecting. Here, we need to find the affect they’re having in that moment in order to help them feel they’re being heard and understood....
Access and Choice in NY State for Autism Supports and Services
My guests today are Toni Tortora, an Occupational Therapist and the Clinical Director at the Rebecca School in Manhattan, Lori Ciesielski who is an Occupational Therapist for Liberty POST (Physical, Occupational, Speech Therapy) services in Buffalo, NY, and Galina...
A Developmental Approach to Toileting: Part 2
Alysha Paiaro, Developmental, Individual differences, Relationship-based (DIR) Occupational Therapist and the Assistant Director of Little Buddies Pediatric Therapy, Inc. DIR Occupational Therapy practice just outside Vancouver, British Columbia returns for Part 2 of...
A Developmental Approach to Toileting: Part 1
What parent doesn't ask about toileting issues when their child is on the spectrum? I don't think I've met a parent of an autistic child who hasn't struggled with toileting. But is it the child's issue or is it the parent's issue? Developmental, Individual...
Gross Motor versus Fine Motor Functions
Developmental, Individual differences, Relationship-based (DIR) Expert Training Leader and Occupational Therapist, Keith Landherr, is the founder and director of Little Buddies Pediatric Therapy, Inc. just outside of Vancouver, British Columbia. He is also a PhD...
The Impact of Cognitive Load on Relating, Communicating, and Thinking
Developmental, Individual differences, Relationship-based (DIR) Expert Training Leader, Colette Ryan, is an infant mental health specialist, a doctoral student in Fielding University’s Infant...
The Rubber Band Metaphor in Floortime
FREE Insights this week!FREE Key Takeaways this week as a New Year bonus! Enter your email above for access!Happy New Year! To start off 2022, retired special educator, DIR Expert Training...
Sensorimotor Profiles in Floortime
Gretchen Kamke is an Occupational Therapist and DIR Expert Training Leader with the International Council on Development and Learning (ICDL) and is a Floortime coach in the DIR Home Program....
Identity Exploration and Finding Your Voice
PHOTO CREDIT: Ameen Fahmy on UnsplashThis week's guest is Maribel Serrano Holder. She is a Floortime Speech and Language Pathologist in San Francisco who founded Logopedia Speech and Language...
The New Co-Reg Community
A few years back, I spoke with Dr. Stuart Shanker about DIR/Floortime and Self-Reg. Self-reg is a process for enhancing self-regulation by understanding and dealing with stress. Self-regulation...
Going Slower to Move Faster
Occupational Therapist and DIR Expert Training Leader, Maude Le Roux, of A Total Approach in Glen Mills, PA returns this week to discuss moving slower to move faster. Maude says there's the...
Critical Core: A Tabletop Role-Playing Game
Photo credit: Game to GrowCritical Core is a tabletop role-playing game scaffolded around the DIR/Floortime model. Critical Core's Director Virginia Spielmann, Occupational Therapist,...
KultureCity: Sensory Accessibility and Inclusion
PHOTO CREDIT: Kulture CityDOWNLOAD KEY TAKE-AWAYSI'm thrilled this week to welcome Dr. Michele Kong, the co-creator of the largest nonprofit on sensory accessibility and acceptance, KultureCity, and board member, Daniel Platzman, who is the drummer of the band,...
DIR® Child & Family Counselling
This is Part 3 of our three podcasts featuring the Developmental, Individual differences, Relationship-based (DIR®) Floortime multi-disciplinary clinic, Professional Child Development Associates in Pasadena, California. Dr. Brandt Chamberlain is a licensed...
Feeding and Floortime
Julie Miller is a Developmental, Individual differences, Relationship-based (DIR®) Occupational Therapist and the Clinical Director of Professional Child Development Associates (PCDA) in...
Creative Arts Through Music and Drama
Photo credit PCDAJuliana Ross is a Developmental, Individual differences, Relationship-based (DIR) Music Therapist and the Head of the Creative Arts Department at PCDA, Professional Child...
Constrictions in Developmental Capacities
PHOTO CREDIT: Annie SprattReturning guests, Clinical Psychologist Kathy Platzman of Floortime Atlanta and Infant Mental Health Specialist Colette Ryan, both DIR/Floortime Expert trainers, join...
Redefining the Autism Narrative: Part 2
This post is part 2 of redefining the autism narrative with two autistic self-advocates, Occupational Therapist Virginia Spielmann, the Executive Director of the STAR Institute in Colorado who...
Redefining the Autism Narrative: Part 1
This week we are redefining the autism narrative with returning guest, Occupational Therapist Virginia Spielmann, the Executive Director of the STAR Institute in Colorado who is also an Expert...
Positive Development
This episode we're talking about a new company called Positive Development, which offers developmental therapies paid for by insurance, currently in Florida, New Jersey, California, and coming soon to Illinois. Maryanne Nugent is the Chief Operating Officer and the...
Virtual Floortime Coaching for Parents
This week we're talking about virtual Floortime coaching for caregivers, using the International Council on Development and Learning's 12-week virtual home program as an example. We will...
A Parent’s Experience of DIRFloortime®
Following up from last week, we’re talking Floortime Summer Camps with Occupational Therapist, Rosemary White, of The Offices of Rosemary White OTR/L & Associates, just outside of Seattle,...
DIRFloortime® Summer Camps
This and next week we're talking Floortime Summer Camp with Occupational Therapist, Rosemary White, of The Offices of Rosemary White OTR/L & Associates, just outside of Seattle, who is a DIRFloortime® Expert Training Leader and on the Senior Faculty at Profectum....
Am I Neurodivergent Like My Child?
Developmental and clinical psychologist, Kathy Platzman from Floortime Atlanta, an expert on the Developmental, Individual differences, Relationship-based (DIR) model and the Director of...
Creating Opportunities in Floortime
PHOTO CREDIT: Miles TanReturning guest, Licensed Professional Counsellor and DIR Expert Training Leader, Mike Fields from Floortime Atlanta and Inneractions Therapy Services, joins us this week...
Communication-Action-Affect in Floortime
This week we revisit Dr. Stanley Greenspan's Words*-Action-Affect (W-A-A) concept with Marilee Burgeson, who recently wrote an ICDL Newsflash on the topic. In Building Healthy Minds, Greenspan...
Examining the Experience of Autistic Students in Higher Education
Photo is the property of Emile Gouws. EDU 360 is the school where Emile teaches.Senior Advisor to the International Council on Development and Learning (ICDL) where he also sits on the Board of...
Floortime Lifestyle
I'm so excited this week to have a superstar mother and daughter Occupational Therapy team, Mili Cordero and Joann Fleckenstein of Individual and Team Therapy Services in Atlanta, which is the...
Alternative and Augmentative Communication (AAC) Devices
PHOTO CREDIT: PrentromThis episode, Speech-Language Pathologist and DIRFloortime® Expert Training Leader Dr. Joleen Fernald answers Affect Autism member questions. If you missed Part 1 last episode, please go back and listen to her discuss her specialty, Selective...
The Power of Purposeful Communication
This week Speech-Language Pathologist and DIR Expert Trainer Joleen Fernald, who also has her PhD, joins us from just outside of Tampa, Florida. She specializes in Selective Mutism and...
Enriching Sensory and Motor Experiences at Home
How has the pandemic impacted our children? What is better? What is worse? Occupational Therapist Robbie Levy wondered how to enrich the lives of the families she works with. At the NYC 2021...
Sensory Ingredients and Dynamic Responsivity
How has the pandemic impacted our children? What is better? What is worse? Occupational Therapist Robbie Levy wondered how to enrich the lives of the families she works with. At the NYC 2021...
Floortime is Also Adolescent- and Adult-Led
PHOTO CREDIT: JESHOOTS.COM on UnsplashIn March, we talked about Floortime being child-led. This episode is about how we can engage and communicate with an adolescent or adult using...
ADHD: A VAST Topic
unsplash-logoPhoto: Tyler LastovichSee below for this week's BONUS PODCAST with Mike Fields!This week, two returning guests discuss ADHD with me through a strengths-based lens. By focusing on...
Affect Depends on Interoception
FREE Preview this week into the weekly Insights video for Members where I share my insights from each podcast.It's a great pleasure having Dr. Ira Glovinsky back this week to discuss Dr. Lisa...
Neurodiversity-Affirming Care
Photo: Jason BlackeyeLicensed Clinical Psychologist, Alex Klein, joins us this week from Oakland, California where he is both in private practice and works at the Kaiser Oakland Medical Center...
Fostering Friendships Virtually Using Games
Hear my 'a-ha' moments each week by becoming a Member.This week's podcast is a recording of a presentation from the Rebecca School NYC DIR Conference from last month about forming friendships virtually during the pandemic. It is called, "Thank You for Being a Friend":...
Approaching Pre-Academics with Floortime
Colette Ryan returns this week to discuss how we can work on academics in Floortime. She is a Expert Training Leader in the Developmental, Individual-differences, Relationship-based (DIR)...
Why Floortime is Child-Led
Dr. Stanley Greenspan stressed allowing the child to be the director of play in Floortime. This includes when we want promote the child's flexibility over their frustration when things...
Humour Development in Autism
This week we have a new guest. Developmental Psychologist and clinical Social Worker Dr. Cindy Puccio an ICDL Clinical Consultant and a longtime DIR practitioner and Expert Training Leader....
Combining DIRFloortime® and Sensory Integration
This episode I welcome back Stephanie Peters and a new guest, Courtney St. Germain. Both are occupational therapists who are DIRFloortime® Expert Training Leaders at ICDL's DIR® Institute in New Jersey where Courtney is the Program Director. We are discussing their...
Co-Regulation is the Driver for Sensory Integration
Keith Landherr is our guest this episode talking about how emotional regulation is the driver for sensory integration. Keith has 25 years experience as an occupational therapist and is the founder and director of Little Buddies Pediatric Therapy, Incorporated just...
Emotion seeking and saying “No!”
This week's topic stems from my take-aways from my family's visit to The Floortime Center almost five years ago when Jake Greenspan told us that attention seeking behaviours are actually...
Supporting Parents in the Process of Accepting Reality
Returning this week as our guest is Dr. Joshua Feder, a child and family psychiatrist in Solana Beach, California using the Developmental, Individual differences, Relationship-based (DIR®) model. One of my biggest revelations from being a Floortime parent that I...
A Self-Advocate’s Inspiring Journey
Emile Gouws joins us this episode as Affect Autism's first interview with a self-advocate! Emile is a special educator, a PhD student, vice chairman of the National Executive Committee of Autism of South Africa, and represents neurodiversity at the Commonwealth...
Good Autism Education is Just Good Education
This episode, Dr. Gil Tippy returns to talk about how good autism education is just good education. His new book chapter will appear in the same upcoming book that we heard Dr. Gerry Costa talk about a few weeks ago. Dr. Tippy is a clinical psychologist, a consultant,...
Building Relationships in the Practice of Palliative Care using DIRFloortime®
This episode, we have a panel to discuss broadening the scope of DIRFloortime® to a larger audience. After attending the 2020 DIRFloortime® conference presentation entitled, Prospects for...
The Heart of DIRFloortime®: The R and Genuine Affect
This episode, I'm speaking with clinical psychologist, Dr. Amanda Kriegel from Floortime Atlanta and Morgan Weissman from the Rebecca School about their presentation at the recent DIRFloortime® conference which was entitled, "The “R” in DIR: The Heart of Supporting...
Facilitating Emotional and Logical Thinking: Part 3
In part three of facilitating emotional thinking and logical thinking, I reflect on a newly recorded Floortime session with my son which was based on the suggestions that clinical psychologist and founder and director of the Greenhouse Therapy Center, Dr. Andrea...
Facilitating Emotional and Logical Thinking: Part 2
In part two of our Floortime review, clinical psychologist and founder and director of the Greenhouse Therapy Center, Dr. Andrea Davis is back to continue breaking down how I am facilitating emotional thinking and logical thinking in my 11-year-old son while...
Facilitating Emotional and Logical Thinking: Part 1
I'm thrilled to have clinical psychologist, Andrea Davis back for the next two weeks to review a Floortime session of me playing with my son as a follow-up from last year's bowling session. Dr. Davis is the founder and director of the Greenhouse Therapy Center in...
Recognizing and Documenting Our Children’s Communication Cues
On Episode 149...Infant mental health specialist, Colette Ryan returns this episode to discuss cues recognition. What does it mean to send and receive cues in interactions with our children? What factors impact cue reading and sending? How can we record these cues to...
How do we best prepare our multidisciplinary professionals in the field of autism?
Psychologist Gerry Costa is the founding director of the Center for Autism and Early Childhood Mental Health at Montclair State University and a professor in the Department of Teaching and Learning. He is the Board President of and Clinical Consultant to the...
My Biggest Revelations from being a Floortime Parent: Part 2
This week’s podcast is part two of a two-part review of my conference presentation for the International Council on Development and Learning (ICDL) from last month. Retired special educator and DIR Expert Training Leader, Jackie Bartell, joined me to discuss my...
My Biggest Revelations from being a Floortime Parent: Part 1
Continuing on with the theme of parent support, this week's podcast is part one of a two-part review of my conference presentation for the International Council on Development and Learning (ICDL) from this month. Retired special educator and DIR Expert Training...
Support for Fathers of Children on the Spectrum
Clinical psychologist, author, and parent, Dr. Robert Naseef joins us this week from Philadelphia for our 2nd podcast together. In our last podcast on Ambiguous Loss a year ago we discussed how we can unpack the 'why's' and 'what ifs' that parents feel when learning...
The Future is Here: Fostering Neurodivergent Students’ Media Literacy
I'm thrilled to welcome Chris Hernandez this episode for the first time after meeting him in March at the NYC DIR® Conference! He is an Ed Tech, coach, instructional designer, and a digital creator. He is also the Media Specialist at the Rebecca School in Manhattan, a...
Art with Heart: An Open Studio Approach to DIRFloortime®
Thank you to the mother and daughter artist team from Italy who created the beautiful painting in today's blog post photo which reads, "All is good. All will be good."This week we have two guests to discuss DIR/Floortime and art. Donnie Welch is a teaching artist who...
Parent Support Groups
On This Episode...Bridget Palmer is a DIRFloortime® Expert Training Leader in the Developmental, Individual differences, Relationship-based (DIR®) model and a speech-language pathologist in Buffalo, NY. She runs a Floortime parent support group called Floortime...
Navigating Our Therapy Teams and Social Circles
Developmental and Clinical Psychologist, Dr. Kathy Platzman from Floortime Atlanta, an expert on the Developmental, Individual differences, Relationship-based (DIR®) model returns this week. Not only is Dr. Platzman an DIRFloortime® Expert Training Leader, but she is...
Supporting Parents in DIRFloortime®
This episode, Eunice Lee joins us. She is a DIRFloortime® Expert Training Leader and a social worker in Toronto, Canada. She's been learning about DIR® since 2006. Eunice was one of my family's very first DIR® coaches eight years ago after I saw her featured in the...
Research Supporting DIRFloortime®
On Episode 139Dr. Diane Cullinane joins us this episode to review some of the research supporting DIRFloortime®. She is a developmental pediatrician and a DIR-Expert practitioner in South Pasadena, California. She was a co-founder and the executive director of PCDA,...
Floortime in the Pool: A Deeper Dive
Occupational therapist at ICDL Livingston, Stephanie Peters, returns to build upon last week's podcast sharing her experiences doing Floortime in the Pool! Stephanie has experience as an aquatic therapist and has done Floortime in the pool as part of the Intensives at...
Individual differences and Floortime in the Pool
PHOTO CREDIT: Liberamente CrescentinoThis episode features DIRFloortime® Expert Training Leader Serena Suman to discuss Individual differences and Floortime in different environments, including in the pool. She is an evolutionary psychologist and a functional...
Attention and Executive Function
Occupational therapist Maude Le Roux returns this week to discuss attention and executive function. She operates A Total Approach, a multi-disciplinary clinic that uses a Developmental, Individual differences, Relationship-based (DIR) framework. While preparing for...
Interoception: What is your child feeling inside?
On Episode 135Dr. Ira Glovinsky returns this episode to discuss the eighth sense: Interoception. He is on the faculty of Arts Education at Brooklyn College in New York and he is an adjunct professor with the PhD program in Infant and Early Childhood Development at...
Online Schooling and Services during a Pandemic
Photo by Element5 Digital on UnsplashDave Nelson returns this week to chat about online schooling and services during the pandemic and back to school. Dave is a Licensed Professional Counsellor and the Executive Administrative Director at Threshold Community Program...
What to Expect from a Developmentally-Based Speech-Language Pathologist
Jehan Shehata-Aboubakr joins us this episode. She is a Speech-Language Pathologist at Clinical Communication Consultants in Thornhill, Ontario (just north of Toronto). She is a DIRFloortime® Expert Training Leader faculty with Profectum. We did an episode last year on...
Polyvagal Theory and Regulating our Bodily State
This episode, I'm thrilled to introduce Dr. Stephen Porges and the Polyvagal Theory as it relates to autism and the quarantine, and its therapeutic listening application, the Safe and Sound Protocol. Dr. Porges is a Distinguished University Scientist at Indiana...
The Realization Phase
Advanced DIRFloortime® practitioner Stephanie Peters joins us this episode to discuss the phase that those new to Floortime go through, especially when coming from other approaches to autism supports. Stephanie is an occupational therapist and has been coaching...
Meaning Making
Colette Ryan joins us this episode to discuss meaning making. She is an Expert Training Leader in the Developmental, Individual-differences, Relationship-based (DIR®) model with the International Council on Development and Learning (ICDL), a New York State endorsed...
COVID-19 DIRFloortime® Resources
Here are a number of helpful developmental approach resources I've found for families during our stay-at-home period, in addition to our Resources page: FREE Dr. Gil Tippy's For on the Floor short videos for those wanting to do Floortime at home Affect Autism online...
Affect Autism’s Daria Brown
DIRFloortime® Expert Training Leader and Licensed Mental Health Counselor, Gene Christian returns to interview Daria Brown, the person behind Affect Autism. She has a Masters degree in Personality Psychology, holds an DIRFloortime® Advanced Provider certificate from...
Floortime and the Coronavirus
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 respects all emotional expression Floortime...
Anti-Bullying Day
unsplash-logoPhoto: Riccardo MionToday 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 topic.
Promoting Parent Choice
This week developmentally-based Speech and Language Pathologist (SLP), and DIR Expert Training Leader, Melanie Feller returns to discuss the importance of parent choice in therapeutic approaches for children with developmental differences. She is the founder of...
A Closer Look at Impulsivity
Photo: Istiaque EmonMaude Le Roux returns this week to discuss Impulsivity and all of the factors to consider when addressing impulsive behaviour. Maude is an occupational therapist who runs A Total Approach in Glen Mills, Pennsylvania. She is also a DIR Expert...
Strategies Don’t Support Growth
PHOTO CREDIT: Hans-Peter GausterDIRFloortime® Expert Training Leader, Clinical Psychologist, founder of the developmental transition service called Dirty Hands Developmental Alliance, and co-author of Respecting Autism, Dr. Gil Tippy, returns this episode. We are...
Promoting Symbolic Thinking in Small Group Settings
Photo credit: Park TroopersThis week we have a follow-up with Kristy Gose from our last podcast with her, Floortime with Family and Small Groups. Kristy is an Infant Family Mental Health Specialist, a Developmental, Individual differences, Relationship-based (DIR)...
From Ambiguous Loss to Acceptance
PHOTO CREDIT: ShutterstockClinical psychologist, author, and parent, Dr. Robert Naseef joins us from Philadelphia. He has run countless workshops with fellow fathers, has worked in the Middle East and Southeast Asia with families with children and adults with autism...
Incorporating DIR Goals into the Individual Education Plan (IEP)
On Episode 120Jackie Bartell returns this episode to discuss how to incorporate Developmental, Individual differences, Relationship-based (DIR®) model goals into your child's Individualized Education Plan (IEP) at school. Jackie is a retired special educator in...
Regulation Challenges through the Developmental Capacities
Photo: Michal Parzuchowski 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, Relationship-based (DIR) Model. Maude...
The Importance of Preverbal Affective Signalling
PHOTO CREDIT: MI PHAMThis episode, Licensed Mental Health Counselor and DIRFloortime® 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...
Uniquely Human
PHOTO CREDIT: Providence JournalSpeech-Language Pathologist, Brown University faculty member, and Director of Childhood Communication Services (CCS), Dr. Barry Prizant joins us this episode to discuss the Social Communication Emotional Regulation Transactional Support...
Floortime with Family and Small Groups
PHOTO CREDIT: Daniel CheungThis episode we have a new guest from Fresno, California. Kristy Gose is an Infant Family Mental Health Specialist, a Developmental, Individual differences, Relationship-based (DIR®) Floortime Expert Training Leader, and a professor at...
Fostering independence
DIR Expert Jackie Bartell returns this week to discuss how to provide expectations for children with developmental differences in order to foster independence and developmental progress in the Developmental, Individual differences, Relationship-based (DIR) model. I...
The Shift Towards Developmental Approaches
Photo: Timothy Eberly Returning this week as our guest is Dr. Joshua Feder, a child and family psychiatrist in Solana Beach, California using the Developmental, Individual differences, Relationship-based (DIR) model, an Expert DIR Training Leader, and an advocate with...
