by D. Brown | Jun 10, 2019 | DIR Practice, Podcast
Donnie Welch joins us today. He is a Poet and Educator who runs poetry workshops around New York City for students with developmental disabilities. He is the Creative Writing Teacher at the Rebecca School in Manhattan. The poetry workshops that he does started there...
by D. Brown | May 27, 2019 | DIR Theory, Podcast
PHOTO CREDIT: Annie Spratt Joining us this episode is Jehan Shehata-Aboubakr, a Speech-Language Pathologist (SLP) at Clinical Communication Consultants in Thornhill, Ontario (just north of Toronto) where she practices with a functional pragmatic and DIRFloortime®...
by D. Brown | May 6, 2019 | DIR Practice, DIR Theory
Photo: Aaron Mello Key Take-Aways Play has been the new buzzword making a comeback in early child development (go figure), but there are many misconceptions about what play actually is. A new series of courses from the Neufeld Institute that I have been taking shed...
by D. Brown | Apr 22, 2019 | Podcast
Speech-Language Pathologist Amanda Binns returns this week to discuss her new publication entitled, “Developmental social pragmatic interventions for preschoolers with autism spectrum disorder: A systematic review” co-authored with Janis Oram Cardy. It is...
by D. Brown | Apr 8, 2019 | DIR Theory, Podcast
Photo: Annie Spratt Clinical psychologist and DIR Expert Training Leader, Ira Glovinsky returns this week to discuss factors affecting self-regulation, the development of it, and a number of things we can do about it. This follows our discussion from last time on The...