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Infant mental health specialist, Colette Ryan, returns this episode to discuss cues recognition. What does it mean to send and receive cues in interactions with our children? What factors impact cue reading and sending? How can we record these cues to help others understand our children? How do meaning making and co-regulation play in the mix?

Link to the show notes with links to key discussion points and other ways to view or hear the episode here: https://affectautism.com/2020/12/19/cues/

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DIR-Expert Andrew Klein is an Occupational Therapist in Durham, NC where he is the Team Development Manager at Emerge Pediatric Therapy and is also a Clinical Supervisor with KinderGrowth, a NJ organization providing home-based DIRFloortime® covered by Medicaid. He is the father of 2. This episode, we are discussing the purposes and ethics of DIR® occupational therapy, covering how to combine traditional intervention within a neuroaffirming DIR® work.

Link to the show notes with links to key discussion points and other ways to view or hear the episode here: https://affectautism.com/2026/10/30/dir-ot/

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OT ⁠Maude Le Roux⁠  is back—this time to explore vision & visual processing in the DIR® model. Many neurodivergent kids face unique challenges with visual and visual-spatial processing. Don’t miss this follow-up to our vestibular system episode!

Link to the show notes with links to key discussion points and other ways to view or hear the episode here: ⁠⁠http://affectautism.com/2022/10/15/vision⁠⁠

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A returning, frequent guest, Occupational Therapist Maude Le Roux joins us this episode to discuss the impact of vestibular processing on the⁠ functional emotional developmental capacities (FEDCs)⁠ in the ⁠Developmental, Individual differences, Relationship-based (DIR®) model⁠, or ⁠DIRFloortime®⁠. 

Link to the show notes with links to key discussion points and other ways to view or hear the episode here: ⁠⁠⁠https://affectautism.com/2022/07/23/vestibular/⁠

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October is Selective Mutism Awareness Month! In this episode, speech-language pathologists Dr. Joleen Fernald, a DIR-Expert, and Lauren Kline of Bjorem Speech explain Selective Mutism and Situational Mutism and discuss Dr. Jo’s DIR-SM card deck, a developmental approach to selective mutism.

Link to the show notes with links to key discussion points and other ways to view or hear the episode here: https://affectautism.com/2026/10/09/dir-sm/

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Developmental and Clinical Psychologist Dr. Kathy Platzman from Floortime Atlanta is here to cover a few topics: the transdisciplinary approach, parent guilt, and navigating social circles for parents with neurodivergent children--a question from an Affect Autism member.Link to the show notes with links to key discussion points and other ways to view or hear the episode here: https://affectautism.com/2020/10/25/navigating/Consider joining our DIR® Parent Network or becoming an Affect Autism member for bonus content and support from a like-minded community of Floortimers here: ⁠⁠https://affectautism.com/support/

In this episode we are discussing the use of alternative and augmentative communication (AAC) with five DIRFloortime® speech-language therapists.

Link to the show notes with links to key discussion points and other ways to view or hear the episode here: https://affectautism.com/2026/09/25/dialogues-8/

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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 non verbal 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 show notes with links to key discussion points and other ways to view or hear the episode here: ⁠https://affectautism.com/2019/09/30/preverbal/⁠

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This episode I’m pleased to welcome DIRFloortime® Expert Training Leader, Helen Groth, as my guest to discuss the dynamic process of transitions in autism. Helen gave a fabulous presentation on transitions at the that I took so much away from and I am so excited to welcome her this week to share her presentation material with us!

Link to the show notes with links to key discussion points and other ways to view or hear the episode here: https://affectautism.com/2023/01/21/transitions/

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Dr. Ira Glovinsky is a clinical psychologist in Ann Arbor, Michigan who has primarily worked with children with severe mood This episode, we discuss some important holes in clinical practice, how to notice them, and what we can do about them. with two returning guests to the podcast. Dr. Ira Glovinsky is a clinical psychologist in Ann Arbor, Michigan who has primarily worked with children with severe mood disorders. He engages in many other research endeavors and has authored many publications. Daniela Bishop is a registered nurse who is the parent of a child with a complex developmental profile.

Link to the show notes with links to key discussion points and other ways to view or hear the episode here: https://affectautism.com/2026/09/04/how-do-you-know/

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* Thank you to Toronto recording artist Ayria for the song permissions.