by D. Brown | Feb 5, 2018 | DIR Practice, Podcast
What is DIR? What is Floortime? This week, Clinical Psychologist Dr. Andrea Davis of the Greenhouse Therapy Center in Pasadena, California, and co-author of her User’s Guide to the DIR Model returns to review a Floortime session I did with my son back in...
by D. Brown | Jan 29, 2018 | Early literacy
Up until now our son has only had foundation academics. He does not yet read nor write. He has only recently begun to have an interest in holding a crayon/marker/pencil, uses a full fist grip, and scribbles, pressing very hard. If corrected, he will maintain the grip...
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 | Dec 4, 2017 | DIR Practice, DIR Theory, Podcast
unsplash-logoPhoto: Karen Vardazaryan This week we have Dr. Josh Feder with us from sunny Solana Beach, California where he is a father of a grown autistic son, a child and family psychiatrist using the Developmental, Individual differences, Relationship-based (DIR)...
by D. Brown | Nov 27, 2017 | DIR Practice, DIR Theory
What is DIR? What is Floortime? The final week of our back-to-school series brings you a follow-up to last week’s blog about process-oriented learning. We asked some DIR Expert Training Leaders and school practitioners about providing Floortime at different...
