Start Here: Search by Topic
I organized my podcasts and blog posts into the topics below, but feel free to suggest new topics or offer other suggestions:
ADHD
- ADHD: A VAST Topic (includes video & audio podcast)
ADOLESCENCE
- And Then Comes Puberty… (includes video & audio podcast)
- Floortime is Also Adolescent- and Adult-Led (includes video & audio podcast)
- Curiosity as a Driver of Connection and Interaction in Adolescence (includes video & audio podcast)
AFFECT
- It’s All About Affect
- Affect is Your #1 Resource to Connect with Your Child
- Affect Depends on Interoception (includes video & audio podcast)
- The Heart of DIRFloortime®: The R and Genuine Affect (includes video & audio podcast)
- Affect and Regulation in Middle Eastern Culture (includes video & audio podcast)
AGGRESSION
- Unpacking Aggression (includes video & audio podcast)
ANXIETY/FEARS/PHOBIAS
- A Floortime Approach to Fears and Phobias (includes video & audio podcast)
The ARTS
- Sensory and Developmental Poetry Workshops (includes video & audio podcast)
- Art with Heart: An Open Studio Approach to DIRFloortime® (includes video & audio podcast)
- Creative Arts Through Music and Drama (includes video & audio podcast)
ASSESSMENT
- Maude Le Roux’s New Functional Developmental Autism Assessment Protocol (includes video & audio podcast)
- Diagnosing Autism in Girls and Women (includes video & audio podcast)
BUDDHIST PHILOSOPHY
- Dhamma and DIR® (includes video & audio podcast)
COMMUNICATION/SPEECH
- The Joy in Communicating (includes audio podcast)
- Communication-Action-Affect (known as W-A-A) in Floortime (includes video & audio podcast)
- What is Scripting All About? (includes video & audio podcast)
- Pre-Linguistics are Pre-Social Abilities (includes video & audio podcast)
- What to Expect from a Developmentally-Based Speech and Language Pathologist (includes video & audio podcast)
- The Power of Purposeful Communication (includes video & audio podcast)
- Alternative and Augmentative Communication (AAC) Devices (includes video & audio podcast)
- Identity Exploration and Finding Your Voice (includes video & audio podcast)
- A New Community-Created Resource: SLP MAPs (includes video & audio podcast)
- Gestalt Language Processing and DIR® (includes video & audio podcast)
- Bringing DIR® Into the Classroom to Accommodate Communication for All (includes video & audio podcast)
- Gestural Development: The D, the I, and the R (includes video & audio podcast)
- Joyfully Together: Collaboration in the DIRFloortime® Approach (includes video & audio podcast)
THE D: DEVELOPMENT
- The D in the DIR® Model: Development
- Starting DIRFloortime® with Your Child: Where is Your Child Developmentally?
- Constrictions in Developmental Capacities (includes video & audio podcast)
- Developmental Growth Spurts: What to Expect (includes audio podcast)
- Moving Up and Down Developmentally (includes audio podcast)
- Inspiring Relating, Communicating, and Thinking at Different Developmental Capacities
- Theory of Mind is Developmental (includes video & audio podcast)
- Gauging our Developmental Capacities: Part 1 (includes video & audio podcast)
- Gauging our Developmental Capacities: Part 2 (includes video & audio podcast)
- Visualization Leads to Imagination (includes video & audio podcast)
- Nurturing Intentionality as a Bridge to FEDC 4 (includes video & audio podcast)
- FEDC 4: Complex Communication and Shared Problem Solving (includes video & audio podcast)
- Developing Through FEDC 4 into FEDC 5 (includes video & audio podcast)
DEVELOPMENTAL APPROACH
- DIRFloortime® as a Comprehensive Developmental Approach
- The Conversation (includes video & audio podcast)
- It’s Only as Good as the Implementation
- Where is Your Focus?
- Intention in a Developmental Approach
- A Developmental Approach Overview (includes audio podcast)
- Special Books by Special Kids
- Anti-Bullying Day (includes video blog)
DIR® DIALOGUES
DISCIPLINE/LIMIT SETTING
EARLY LITERACY
EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT
- Emotions (within safe relationships) are Key to Affecting Autism
- Respecting the Emotional Experience and Expressions of the Child
- Can you Teach Emotions?
- Emotion-Seeking and Saying “No!” (includes video & audio podcast)
- Harnessing the Power of Narratives to Impact Development (includes video & audio podcast)
FAMILY COUNSELLING
- DIR® Child & Family Counselling (includes video & audio podcast)
FEEDING
- FOODTIME: A Developmental Approach to Picky and Rigid Eating (includes audio podcast)
- Floortime and Feeding (includes video & audio podcast)
FLOORTIME
- Introduction to Floortime
- Floortime as a Family Approach
- Floortime Lifestyle (includes video & audio podcast)
- The Nuts and Bolts of the Floortime Session
- The Interaction of the D, the I, and the R Within the Floortime Session
- Example of a Floortime Session (includes Floortime video)
- What an Ideal DIRFloortime® Program Looks Like
- A User’s Guide to the Developmental, Individual differences, Relationship-based (DIR®) Model (includes audio podcast)
- Floortime Analysis (includes Floortime video)
- Slowing Down and Stretching out Interactions
- Using Self-Reflection as a Tool in Floortime (includes 3-part audio podcast and Floortime video)
- Floortime in the Car! (includes Floortime video)
- Scaffolding in Floortime: Supporting your Child While Encouraging Development
- 10 Floortime Tips From Our Visit to The Floortime Center
- What Does Following the Child’s Lead Really Mean?
- More Floortime in the Car! (includes Floortime video)
- Another Look at Self-Reflection in Floortime (includes Floortime video)
- This is 99% of Floortime
- Repetition in Autism Therapy: A Closer Look (includes audio podcast)
- Floortime for First-Timers: A Quickstart Guide
- Five Great Floortime Books
- Being versus Doing (includes video & audio podcast)
- Why Challenging and Expanding are Essential for Human Growth
- Circles of Communication in Floortime
- The New Connection Coder App (includes video & audio podcast)
- Floortime with Family or Small Groups (includes video & audio podcast)
- Promoting Symbolic Thinking in Small Group Settings (includes video & audio podcast)
- Meaning Making (includes video & audio podcast)
- Recognizing and Documenting our Children’s Communication Cues (includes video & audio podcast)
- Stumbling Blocks in Floortime at FEDC 1: Facilitating Shared Sttention and Regulation
- Stumbling Blocks in Floortime at FEDC 2: Fostering Attention and Engagement
- Stumbling Blocks in Floortime at FEDC 3: Encouraging Purposeful Emotional Interactions
- Stumbling Blocks in Floortime at FEDC 4: Encouraging Shared Problem Solving
- Stumbling Blocks in Floortime at FEDC 5: Inspiring the Expression of Ideas and Feelings (includes video blog)
- Stumbling Blocks in Floortime at FEDC 6: Fostering Logical Thinking and Building Bridges Between Ideas
- Barriers to Parents Doing DIRFloortime®
- The Floortime Manual
- What is Attunement in a Developmental Approach?
- Floortime All Day, Anywhere (includes audio podcast)
- Celebrity Floortimer
- Promoting Capacities 4 and 5 with Floortime (includes audio podcast and Floortime video)
- Can Visual Prompts About Time Promote Understanding in Floortime?
- Floortime Through Music Therapy (includes video & audio podcast)
- Floortime Follow-up (includes Floortime video)
- Floortime Feedback (includes video & audio podcast and Floortime video)
- Floortime is About Connection and Shared Joy: Part 1 (includes Floortime video)
- Floortime is About Connection and Shared Joy: Part 2 (includes Floortime video)
- Floortime Tips for Behavioural Challenges at School
- Floortime Tips for Behavioural Challenges at Home
- Floortime is About Connection and Shared Joy: Part 3 (includes Floortime video)
- Floortime Review (includes video & audio podcast and Floortime video)
- Facilitating Emotional and Logical Thinking: Part 1 (includes video & audio podcast and Floortime video)
- Facilitating Emotional and Logical Thinking: Part 2 (includes video & audio podcast and Floortime video)
- Facilitating Emotional and Logical Thinking: Part 3 (includes audio podcast and Floortime video)
- Strategies Don’t Support Growth (includes video & audio podcast)
- Floortime and the Coronavirus (includes video blog)
- Why Floortime is Child-Led (includes video & audio podcast)
- Approaching Pre-Academics with Floortime (includes video & audio podcast)
- Floortime is Also Adolescent- and Adult-Led (includes video & audio podcast)
- Creating Opportunities in Floortime (includes video & audio podcast)
- Going Slower to Move Faster (includes video & audio podcast)
- The Rubber Band Metaphor in Floortime (includes video & audio podcast)
- Following the Child’s Emotional Intent (includes video & audio podcast)
GAMES/GAMING
- Fostering Friendships Virtually Using Games (includes video & audio podcast)
- Growth and Gaming (includes video & audio podcast)
- Critical Core: A Tabletop Role-Playing Game (includes video & audio podcast)
HOPE
- DIR® and the Science of Hope (includes video & audio podcast)
HUMOUR
- Humour Development in Autism (includes video & audio podcast)
INDEPENDENCE
- Fostering Independence (includes video & audio podcast)
- Empowering Ability (includes video & audio podcast)
THE I: INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES
INSURANCE COVERAGE
- The P.L.A.Y. Project (includes video & audio podcast)
- Positive Development (includes audio podcast)
- Kinder Growth DIRFloortime® Medicaid Services (includes video & audio podcast)
MEDICALLY COMPLEX CHILDREN
- DIR® and Medically Complex Children: Trauma-Informed Care (includes video & audio podcast)
MEDICATION
- Autism and Medication (includes video & audio podcast)
- Autism and Medication: Part 2 (includes video & audio podcast)
MOVEMENT/MOTOR PLANNING/PRAXIS
- Motor Planning and Sequencing Challenges in Children with Developmental Differences
- The Building Blocks of Motor Planning (includes audio podcast)
- All About Praxis: Part 1 of 2 (includes video & audio podcast)
- All About Praxis: Part 2 of 2 (includes video & audio podcast)
- Adapted Spiral Praxis and Movement for the Bodymind Process (includes video & audio podcast)
MUSIC THERAPY
- Parents Can Connect with Their Children Through Musical Interactions (includes video & audio podcast)
OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY (also see Sensory Processing/Integration below)
- Attention and Executive Function (includes video & audio podcast)
- Gross Motor versus Fine Motor Functions (includes video & audio podcast)
- Visual Spatial Planning and Assessment (ViSPA) (includes video & audio podcast)
- Joyfully Together: Collaboration in the DIRFloortime® Approach (includes video & audio podcast)
PALLIATIVE CARE & DIR
- Building Relationships in the Practice of Palliative Care Using DIRFloortime® (includes video & audio podcast)
PARENT SUPPORT
- Parents Living with Grief About Their Special Needs Child
- From Ambiguous Loss to Acceptance (includes video & audio podcast)
- Avoiding the Blame in Floortime (includes audio podcast)
- The Realization Phase (includes video & audio podcast)
- Supporting Parents in DIRFloortime® (includes audio podcast)
- Navigating our Therapy Teams and Social Circles (includes video & audio podcast)
- Parent Support Groups (includes video & audio podcast)
- The Future is Here: Fostering Neurodiverse Students’ Media Literacy (includes video & audio podcast)
- Support for Fathers of Autistic Children (includes video & audio podcast)
- Supporting Parents in the Process of Accepting Reality (includes video & audio podcast)
- Am I Neurodivergent Like My Child? (includes video & audio podcast)
- A Parent’s Experience of DIRFloortime® (includes video & audio podcast)
- The Process of Parenting our Neurodivergent Children (includes video & audio podcast)
- Virtual Floortime Coaching for Parents (includes video & audio podcast)
- Floortime Coaching for Different Parenting Styles (includes video & audio podcast)
- Parent Perspectives: How Do We Handle Fears and Anxiety? (includes video & audio podcast)
- Parent Perspectives: Navigating our Health and Education Systems (includes video & audio podcast)
- Parent Perspectives: Relationships, Play, and Growth (includes video & audio podcast)
- Parent Perspectives: Retrospective Perspective (includes video & audio podcast)
- Parent Perspectives: Parents Listening to Autistic Self-Advocates (includes video & audio podcast)
- Parent Perspectives: Parent Self-Regulation (includes video & audio podcast)
- Parent Perspectives: Navigating Our Different Support Roles (includes video & audio podcast)
- If I Need Help (includes video & audio podcast)
- In-Home Floortime Coaching Supports Families (includes video & audio podcast)
- Floortime Supports Parental Self-Efficacy (includes video & audio podcast)
- Intensives at the DIR® Institute (includes video & audio podcast)
- Parent Perspectives: Floortime Intensives at the DIR® Institute (includes video & audio podcast)
- Parent Perspectives: Finding and Holding on to Floortime (includes video & audio podcast)
- Perspectivas de los Padres: Reuniones de Apoyo para Padres Floortime (includes video & audio podcast)
PHYSICAL THERAPY
- DIRFloortime® and Physical Therapy (includes video & audio podcast)
- Physical Therapy is Enhanced Using a Floortime Lens (includes video & audio podcast)
- Joyfully Together: Collaboration in the DIRFloortime® Approach (includes video & audio podcast)
PLAY
- 5 Games to Play with your Child in Floortime
- Play is the Answer for Healthy Emotional Development
- Taking the Outcome Out of Play (includes endorsement for Critical Core)
- The Little Scientist: Progression of Cause-and-Effect Play (includes video & audio podcast)
- Emotional Playgrounds Foster Emotional Well-Being (includes video & audio podcast)
REFLECTIVE PRACTICE
- Reflective Practice in DIR® (includes video & audio podcast)
REGULATION/STRESS
- Co-regulation in Floortime: How to Interact with a Distressed Child
- Focusing on Regulation (includes video & audio podcast)
- Self-Regulation Starts With Us (includes audio podcast)
- How a Caregiver’s Regulation Affects the Child’s Regulation (includes audio podcast)
- Self-Reg® and DIRFloortime® (includes video & audio podcast)
- The Foundation for Regulation (includes video & audio podcast)
- From Dysregulation to Intent (includes video & audio podcast)
- Polyvagal Theory and Regulating our Bodily State (includes video & audio podcast)
- Regulation Challenges through the Developmental Capacities (includes video & audio podcast)
- A Closer Look at Impulsivity (includes video & audio podcast)
- The New Co-Reg Community (includes video & audio podcast)
- The Impact of Cognitive Load on Relating, Communicating, and Thinking (includes video & audio podcast)
- Creating Opportunities for Co-regulatory Support (includes video & audio podcast)
- (Non)Compliance Does Not Equal (Dys)Regulation (includes video & audio podcast)
- Regulating through Trauma (includes video & audio podcast)
- Affect and Regulation in Middle Eastern Culture (includes video & audio podcast)
- Co-regulation through Affective Signalling (includes video & audio podcast)
THE R: RELATIONSHIP
- The R in the DIR® model: Relationship-Based
- The Heart of DIRFloortime®: The R and Genuine Affect (includes video & audio podcast)
- Your Growth is Your Child’s Growth: Strength in Relationships (includes video & audio podcast)
- Revisiting the R: Hidden Regulators in the Development of Relationships (includes video & audio podcast)
REMEDIATION/ACCOMMODATION
- Remediation versus Accommodation (includes video & audio podcast)
RESEARCH & ADVOCACY
- See the ICDL’s DIRFloortime® Research list
- SEARCH THE AUTISM D.A.T.A. BULLETINS AND MATERIALS (COMING SOON…)
- DIRFloortime® Addresses Patient-Centered Outcomes, Offers Parent Choice, and is Aligned with Disability Rights
- Advocacy for Developmental Approach Therapies
- Uniquely Human (includes video & audio podcast)
- Promoting Parent Choice (includes audio podcast)
- A Review of Developmental Social Pragmatic Interventions (includes video & audio podcast)
- The Move Towards Developmental Approaches (includes video & audio podcast)
- Supporting the Development of Self-Regulation (includes video & audio podcast)
- Gene Christian interviews Affect Autism’s Daria Brown (includes video & audio podcast)
- Research Supporting DIRFloortime® (includes video & audio podcast)
- How Do We Best Prepare Our Multidisciplinary Professionals in the Field of Autism? (includes video & audio podcast)
- A Self-Advocate’s Inspiring Journey (includes video & audio podcast)
- Neurodiversity-Affirming Care (includes video & audio podcast)
- Examining the Experience of Autistic Students in Higher Education (includes video & audio podcast)
- Redefining the Autism Narrative: Part 1 (includes video & audio podcast)
- Redefining the Autism Narrative: Part 2 (includes video & audio podcast)
- Access and Choice in NY State for Autism Supports and Services (includes video & audio podcast)
- My Autism, My Story (includes video & audio podcast)
- Good Intentions Creating Unseen Stigma (includes video & audio podcast)
- The World’s First International Concert to Celebrate Neurodiversity (includes video & audio podcast)
- Part 1: Taking that Step on the Red Carpet (includes video & audio podcast)
- Part 2: Bridging the Gap in Understanding (includes video & audio podcast)
- Part 1: To Whom Should Parents Listen? (includes video & audio podcast)
- Part 2: Adult Diagnosis and What it Means (includes video & audio podcast)
- Our Differences are Our Strengths (includes video & audio podcast)
- A New Community-Created Resource: SLP MAPs (includes video & audio podcast)
- Autistic Masking or Impression Management? (includes video & audio podcast)
- Presuming Competence (includes video & audio podcast)
- Advocating for Rightful Inclusion in School (includes video & audio podcast)
- Let’s Talk About Autism Inclusion this April (includes video & audio podcast)
SCHOOLING
- Soaring Eagle Academy: A Unique Developmental, Individual differences, Relationship-based School
- The Rebecca School: Relationships are the Foundation of Learning (includes audio podcast)
- Oakwood Academy: Canada’s Only DIR® school
- Threshold Community Program: DIR® for Adolescents and Young Adults (includes audio podcast)
- Applying the DIR® Model in a Public School (includes audio podcast)
- Thinking Goes to School
- Process-Oriented Learning Inspires Relating, Communicating, and Thinking (includes audio podcast)
- Facilitating Process-Oriented Learning with Developmental Capacity in Mind: the Just-Right Challenge (includes audio podcast)
- Dirty Hands Developmental Alliance (includes video & audio podcast)
- Incorporating DIR® Goals into the Individual Education Plan (IEP) (includes video & audio podcast)
- Online Schooling and Services During a Pandemic (includes video & audio podcast)
- DIRFloortime® Summer Camps (includes video & audio podcast)
- Good Autism Education is just Good Education (includes video & audio podcast)
- Giant Steps School in Montréal, Québec (includes video & audio podcast)
- Giant Steps Interdisciplinary Autism Centre (includes video & audio podcast)
SENSORY PROCESSING/INTEGRATION
- Starting DIRFloortime® with Your Child: Step 1 is the Sensory Processing Profile
- Sensory Lifestyle (includes video & audio podcast)
- Interoception: What is Your Child Feeling Inside? (includes video & audio podcast)
- Sensory Ingredients and Dynamic Responsivity (includes video & audio podcast)
- Enriching Sensory and Motor Experiences at Home (includes video & audio podcast)
- Co-regulation is the Driver for Sensory Integration (includes video & audio podcast)
- Combining DIRFloortime® and Sensory Integration (includes video & audio podcast)
- KultureCity: Sensory Accessibility and Inclusion (includes video & audio podcast)
- Sensorimotor Profiles in Floortime (includes video & audio podcast)
- The Impact of Vestibular Processing on Development (includes video & audio podcast)
- The Complexity of Vision and Visual Processing (includes video & audio podcast)
- The Somatosensory System and Tactile Perception (includes video & audio podcast)
SIBLINGS
- Floortime as a Family Approach
- Floortime with Family or Small Groups (includes video & audio podcast)
- Promoting Symbolic Thinking in Small Group Settings (includes video & audio podcast)
- Advocating for Rightful Inclusion in School (includes video & audio podcast)
SLEEP
- A DIR® Lens on Sleeping (includes video & audio podcast)
SOCIAL-EMOTIONAL CAPACITIES
- Early Social-Emotional Capacities (includes video & audio podcast)
- Foundation Academics: What is it? (includes audio podcast)
- The Importance of Preverbal Affective Signalling (includes video & audio podcast)
SWIMMING
- Individual Differences and Floortime in the Pool (includes video & audio podcast)
- Floortime in the Pool: A Deeper Dive (includes video & audio podcast)
TOILETING
- A Developmental Approach to Toileting: Part 1 (includes video & audio podcast)
- A Developmental Approach to Toileting: Part 2 (includes video & audio podcast)
TRANSITIONS
- The Dynamic Process of Transitions (includes video & audio podcast)
TRAUMA
- Regulating Through Trauma (includes video & audio podcast)
- DIR® and Medically Complex Children: Trauma-Informed Care (includes video & audio podcast)
- Trauma Through a DIR® Lens (includes video & audio podcast)