by D. Brown | Jul 22, 2019 | DIR Practice, Podcast, Video podcast
What is DIR? What is Floortime? Clinical psychologist, Andrea Davis, returns this week to review a Floortime session of me playing bowling with my son. Dr. Davis is the founder and director of the Greenhouse Therapy Center in Pasadena, California (not...
by D. Brown | Jul 8, 2019 | DIR Practice, Podcast
This week, Jake Greenspan returns to discuss the new FOODTIME program. Jake is the co-founder and co-director of The Floortime Center in Bethesda, MD, the son of late, great Dr. Stanley Greenspan who created the Developmental, Individual differences,...
by D. Brown | Jun 10, 2019 | DIR Practice, Podcast, Video 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, Video podcast
Photo: Annie Spratt Joining us this week is Jehan Shehata-Aboubakr, a speech and language pathologist at Clinical Communication Consultants in Thornhill, Ontario (just north of Toronto) where she practices with a functional pragmatic and DIR/Floortime approach. She is...
by D. Brown | May 6, 2019 | Developmental interventions, 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...