This episode, Licensed Mental Health Counselor and DIRFloortime® Expert Training Leader, Gene Christian in Spokane, Washington is back with us to reiterate the importance of the preverbal affective gestural system to development. Gene says that this preverbal affective signalling, or nonverbal communication, was the most important aspect of the Developmental, Individual differences, Relationship-based (DIR®) model to Dr. Stanley Greenspan, especially in the first four functional emotional developmental capacities (FEDCs).

Link to the full blog post with links to key discussion points and other ways to view or hear the podcast here: https://affectautism.com/2019/09/30/preverbal/

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