by D. Brown | Sep 28, 2020 | DIR Practice, Podcast, Video podcast
This week we have Serena Suman to discuss Individual differences and Floortime in different environments, including in the pool. She is an evolutionary psychologist, a functional psychomotorist (which is similar to an Occupational Therapist in North American), and an...
by D. Brown | May 21, 2018 | DIR Practice, DIR Theory, Podcast, Video podcast
Photo: Bruno Nascimento Key Take-Aways Jackie Bartell is back with us this week for a fantastic discussion about a concept so essential to the Developmental, Individual differences, Relationship-based (DIR) model and Floortime, and that is that we are human beings not...
by D. Brown | May 14, 2018 | DIR Practice
I often hear parents say that they have a hard time finding examples of how to do Floortime with an adolescent or young adult. We’ve provided a few references to Floortime with adolescents including the introduction of the Threshold Community Program, here with...
by D. Brown | May 7, 2018 | DIR Practice, Podcast, Video podcast
A few months ago we reviewed a Floortime video with psychologist Andrea Davis of the Greenhouse Therapy Center in Pasadena, California, and co-author of Floortime Strategies for Promoting Development in Children and Teens: A User’s Guide to the DIR Model. She gave me...
by D. Brown | Apr 9, 2018 | DIR Practice, Podcast, Video podcast
Key Take-Aways Virginia Spielmann returns this week to discuss cause-and-effect play. Virginia is a Developmental, Individual differences, Relationship-based (DIR) Expert Training Leader, a clinical consultant for the Interdisciplinary Council on Development and...
