Affect Is Your #1 Resource to Connect with Your Child
What is DIR®? What is Floortime? DIR® Glossary Do you find it hard to keep your child engaged with you? Is it hard to have an ongoing back-and-forth interaction without them losing interest or moving away? It could be that you struggling to connect with your child on...
Circles of Communication in Floortime
PHOTO CREDIT: Nathan Anderson What is DIR®? What is Floortime? DIR® Glossary More and more research is demonstrating what Dr. Stanley Greenspan and Dr. Stuart Shanker told us in The First Idea years ago: that we develop within emotional relationships with our primary...
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...
CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP for our updates and receive a free, digital copy of our publication: “10 Things You Can Do Now to support your child”. You can be assured that we will not share your information.
Support Affect Autism:
PLEASE NOTE THAT ALL VIEWS EXPRESSED BY PODCAST AND BLOG POST GUESTS ARE SOLELY THEIRS AND DO NOT NECESSARILY REFLECT THE VIEWS OF AFFECT AUTISM, DARIA BROWN, NOR ICDL AND ASSOCIATED PARTIES.