by D. Brown | Dec 18, 2017 | DIR Practice, Podcast
This week Jake Greenspan of The Floortime Center joins Affect Autism for a podcast about making Floortime a part of your everyday life with your child to promote relating, communicating, and thinking. Jake is the son of the late Dr. Stanley Greenspan, who created the...
by D. Brown | Jul 11, 2017 | DIR Practice, DIR Theory
What is DIR®? What is Floortime? DIR® Glossary Episode 47 What is the main difference between developmental approaches such as DIRFloortime® and behavioural interventions? I would say it’s where you put your focus as a caregiver or practitioner. We put the focus...
by D. Brown | May 30, 2017 | DIR Practice
What is DIR®? What is Floortime? DIR® Glossary Episode 43 Play is the cornerstone of Floortime. It is through play that parents and children can share joy. But play is also essential to healthy emotional development because it is through play that we can experiment...
by D. Brown | Feb 21, 2017 | DIR Practice
What is DIR®? What is Floortime? DIR® Glossary Episode 41 Episode 25 with DIR-Expert and Training Leader, Dr. Andrea Davis, entitled Self-Reflection in DIRFloortime®, highlighted such an important aspect of the practice of DIRFloortime®: the role of self-reflection to...
by D. Brown | Jun 21, 2016 | Parent Support, Uncategorized
What is DIR®? What is Floortime? DIR® Glossary Episode 30 Last episode, we talked about barriers parents face when choosing a DIRFloortime® approach for their child with developmental differences. One barrier we didn’t discuss was grief. Especially early on,...