Can You Teach Emotions?
What is DIR®? What is Floortime? DIR® Glossary Episode 86 In DIRFloortime®, we talk a lot about emotions: emotional awareness, early social-emotional capacities, using emotional expressions, accepting all emotional expressions in our children, etc. We even use it...
Why Challenging and Expanding Are Essential for Human Growth
PHOTO CREDIT: Thiago Cerqueira What is DIR®? What is Floortime? DIR® Glossary In Floortime, we talk about meeting the child where they are developmentally (the D) and taking into account their unique sensory profile and individual differences (the I), all within a...
Being Versus Doing
PHOTO CREDIT: Bruno Nascimento What is DIR®? What is Floortime? DIR® Glossary Jackie Bartell is back with us this episode for a fantastic discussion about a concept so essential to the Developmental, Individual differences, Relationship-based (DIR®) model and...
Floortime is about Connection and Shared Joy: Part 1
What is DIR? What is Floortime? 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...
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