On this edition of Parent Perspectives, I am interviewing three Buffalo area families about their struggles finding, accessing, and keeping DIRFloortime® services and how it has changed their view of their neurodivergent children and given them hope. Bethany is the mother six of whom two are neurodivergent, one with an autism diagnosis. They range in age from 14 to 32. Heather is the mother of three of whom two are autistic boys and one is a neurotypical girl, ranging in age from 3 to 8. Megan and Mark are the parents of one autistic son who is 7. They are all in Bridget Palmer’s DIR® parent support group, Bridget being a colleague of mine at ICDL who is an amazing DIRFloortime® Expert Training Leader and Speech Language Therapist.

Link to the full blog post with links to key discussion points here: https://affectautism.com/2025/01/17/finding-dir

Caregivers: Consider joining our DIR Parent Network for support from a like-minded community of Floortimers here: https://www.icdl.com/parents