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DIRFloortime® through Music Therapy

by D. Brown | Apr 16, 2018 | DIR Practice, Podcast

PHOTO CREDIT: The Rebecca Center What is DIR®? What is Floortime? DIR® Glossary Episode 78 Music therapy is this episode’s topic with John Carpente, PhD, who is an Expert DIR® Training Leader, an Associate Professor of Music Therapy at Molloy University,...

The Little Scientist: Progression of Cause-and-Effect Play

by D. Brown | Apr 9, 2018 | DIR Practice, Podcast

What is DIR®? What is Floortime? DIR® Glossary Episode 77 Virginia Spielmann returns to discuss cause-and-effect play. Virginia is a DIRFloortime® Expert Training Leader, a clinical consultant for the International Council on Development and Learning (ICDL), an...

The Joy in Communicating

by D. Brown | Apr 2, 2018 | DIR Practice, Podcast

Photo: Caleb Woods DOWNLOAD KEY TAKE-AWAYS PDF Key Take-Aways PDF for MembersWe will never share your e-mail. Download Success! This week developmentally-based Speech and Language Pathologist (SLP), and DIR Expert Training Leader, Melanie Feller of Alphabet Soup...

Can Visual Prompts About Time Promote Understanding in Floortime?

by D. Brown | Mar 26, 2018 | DIR Practice, Podcast

What is DIR®? What is Floortime? DIR® Glossary It can be a real challenge for some of our children to understand concepts of time. This is a skill acquired as part of a higher functional emotional developmental capacity (FEDC 6) in the Developmental, Individual...

Floortime Follow-up

by D. Brown | Mar 19, 2018 | DIR Practice, Podcast

What is DIR? What is Floortime? AUDIO DOWNLOAD KEY TAKE-AWAYS PDF Key Take-Aways PDF for MembersWe will never share your e-mail. Download Success! A few months ago I spoke with Jake Greenspan about doing Floortime all day, anywhere. He gave me some suggestions to work...