What is DIR? What is Floortime? DIR Glossary A Floortime Approach to Fears and Phobias by Affect Autism https://affectautism.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/2023-05-26.mp3 This Week’s Guest Dr. Karen Levine is a Developmental Psychologist and a Developmental, Individual differences, Relationship-based (DIR) Model Expert and Training Leader based in Maine. She has a private practice specializing in treating young children, both neurodivergent and neurotypical, with a focus on anxiety and phobias. She also has a part-time appointment as a lecturer in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School ..read more

What is DIR? What is Floortime? DIR Glossary Photo: Annie Spratt Floortime Coaching for Different Parenting Styles by Affect Autism https://affectautism.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/2023-05-12.mp3 This Week’s Guest This week I welcome Gabriela Michaca who is a licensed school neuropsychologist and also just received her Masters in Occupational Therapy. Developmental, Individual differences, Relationship-based (DIR) Model Expert and Training Leader in Los Cabos, Mexico. She recently presented at the International DIR/Floortime Conference in New York City about parenting styles and ..read more

What is DIR? What is Floortime? DIR Glossary Photo: Annie Spratt The Somatosensory System and Tactile Perception by Affect Autism https://affectautism.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/2023-04-28.mp3 This Week’s Guest Occupational Therapist Maude Le Roux is back again this week to discuss the sense of touch, or tactile perception, part of the ‘I‘, Individual differences. Maude is a Developmental, Individual differences, Relationship-based (DIR) Model Expert and Training Leader and has a DIR/Floortime clinic, A Total Approach, in Glen Mills, PA, just outside Philadelphia where I’ve bro ..read more

What is DIR? What is Floortime? DIR Glossary Physical Therapy is Enhanced Using a Floortime Lens by Affect Autism https://affectautism.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/2023-04-17.mp3 This Week’s Guest Mary Beth Crawford is a licensed Physical therapist and Developmental, Individual differences, Relationship-based (DIR) Expert Training Leader who founded Baby Steps Therapy in 2008. Mary Beth regularly provides lectures and in-service training to numerous parent groups, and medical professionals and allied health groups on the foundations of motor development, and on her unique approach ..read more

Our Differences are Our Strengths by Affect Autism https://affectautism.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/2023-03-31.mp3  Bonus Insights FREE this week! This Week’s Guest This week I’m speaking with autistic self-advocate, Mickey Rowe, who has had a prolific and varied career as an actor, director, consultant, and public speaker. He is autistic and legally blind. He believes that our differences are our strengths. Mickey was our keynote speaker at ICDL’s 27th NYC Conference last month and he blew me away with his nuggets of wisdom and inspiration. I’m thrilled for you to get to know ..read more

Photo: Rhendi Rukmana What is DIR? What is Floortime? DIR Glossary Autism and Medication: Part 2 by Affect Autism https://affectautism.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/2023-03-18.mp3 This Week’s Topic We’re back this week with Dr. Joshua Feder, a child and family psychiatrist in Solana Beach, California. We did a podcast on autism and medication a few years back and this is part 2 because there is a new Child Medication Fact Book for Psychiatric Practice, Second Edition that just came out. Dr. Feder is here to tell us the purpose of the book and to walk us through the medication alg ..read more

Emotional Playgrounds Foster Emotional Well-Being by Affect Autism https://affectautism.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/2023-03-04.mp3 This Week’s Topic This week I am over the moon excited to have Developmental Psychologist Gordon Neufeld as my guest to discuss emotional well-being (versus ‘mental health’) and rethinking ‘play’ in terms of emotional playgrounds–the heart of a culture of well-being. I attended the virtual Neufeld conference last May and wanted to discuss these two topics that stood out to me in that they are so relevant to what we aim to do in the Developmental, Individ ..read more

Photo by Photo Credit: Markus Spiske on Unsplash What is DIR? What is Floortime? DIR Glossary The Dynamic Process of 'Transitions' by Affect Autism https://affectautism.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/2023-01-21.mp3 This Week’s Topic This week I’m pleased to welcome Helen Groth as my guest to discuss the dynamic process of ‘transitions’ in autism. Helen gave a fabulous presentation on Transitions at the International Council on Development and Learning (ICDL) 2022 Virtual DIR/Floortime Conference that I took so much away from and I am so excited to welcome her this week to sha ..read more

Giant Steps School in Montréal, Québec by Affect Autism https://affectautism.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/2023-01-07.mp3 This Week’s Topic Today I’m speaking with Marla Cable, the Resource and Training Centre Coordinator at Giant Steps School. Giant Steps is a developmental approach, individualized private school in the public interest in Montréal, Québec with 93 students aged 4 to 21 with an autism diagnosis. They have both English and French instruction and students are grouped by age clusters. Their school was visited by DIR/Floortime creator, Dr. Stanley Greenspan, in their early ..read more

Part 1: To Whom Should Parents Listen? by Affect Autism https://affectautism.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/2022-12-10.mp3 This Week’s Topic This week, in Part 1, Kieran Rose and I will discuss a number of topics around neurodiversity including who to listen to as parents when our child is diagnosed with so many opinions out there, and the balance between what we want as parents for our children and what our kids actually need. In Part 2 next week, we’ll discuss late diagnosis and what it means. If you missed it, please check out our previous podcast which covered many topics i ..read more