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DIRFloortime® as a comprehensive developmental approach 02.10.2021 9:08 ↓

DIRFloortime® is the only approach that provides an integrated, developmental framework within which parents and a team of professionals can tailor individualized programming to children with developmental differences taking into account the D, development, I, individual differences and the unique sensory processing profile, and R, the relationship. Link to the full blog post with links to key dis...

DIR Child & Family Counselling 02.10.2021 50:33 ↓

This is Part 3 of our three podcasts featuring the Developmental, Individual differences, Relationship-based (DIR®) Floortime multi-disciplinary clinic,  Professional Child Development Associates  (PCDA) in Pasadena, California. Dr. Brandt Chamberlain is the head of Child and Family Counseling services at PCDA , and he is here to discuss the goals the clinicians address in their services to famili...

Feeding and Floortime 25.09.2021 54:51 ↓

Julie Miller is a Developmental, Individual differences, Relationship-based (DIR®) Occupational Therapist and the Clinical Director of  Professional Child Development Associates (PCDA)  in Pasadena, California where she works closely with the wonderful team dedicated to providing feeding services. As the former head of the Feeding and Nutrition Department, she shares a wealth of knowledge around s...

DIRFloortime® Summer Camps 10.07.2021 47:26 ↓

This and next episode we're talking Floortime summer camp with Occupational Therapist, Rosemary White, of The Offices of Rosemary White OTR/L & Associates , just outside of Seattle, who is a DIRFloortime® Expert Training Leader and on the Senior Faculty at Profectum. Rosemary is one of the original Floortimers who worked with Dr. Stanley Greenspan and she brings this experience to her summ...

Alternative and Augmentative Communication (AAC) Devices 29.05.2021 37:12 ↓

This episode, Speech-Language Pathologist and DIRFloortime® Expert Training Leader  Dr. Joleen Fernald  answers  Affect Autism member  questions. If you missed  Part 1 last episode , please go back and listen to her discuss her specialty,  Selective Mutism  and Alternative and Augmentative Communication (AAC) devices, her DIRFloortime® school,  Reconnections Education Center , and her upcoming boo...

Example of a Floortime Session 23.05.2021 12:16 ↓

Hear an example and analysis of a Floortime session with a young girl with developmental differences, followed by some reflection, which is part of the Floortime process. Link to full blog post here: ⁠https://affectautism.com/2015/12/03/example/⁠ Caregivers: Consider joining our DIR® Parent Network for support from a like-minded community of Floortimers! Learn more at https://www.icdl.com/parents

The Power of Purposeful Communication 22.05.2021 39:31 ↓

Speech-Language Pathologist and DIR® Expert Trainer, Dr. Joleen Fernald discusses her specialties: Selective Mutism and Alternative and Augmentative Communication (AAC) devices, and her DIRFloortime® school, Reconnections Education Center . Link to the show notes with links to key discussion points and other ways to view or hear the episode here: ⁠ https://affectautism.com/2021/05/22/aac/ Consider...