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Licensed Clinical Psychologist, Alex Klein, joins us this episode from Oakland, California where he is both in private practice and works at the Kaiser Oakland Medical Center assessing and providing therapy to both children and adults with neurodevelopmental differences. He trained with Dr. Stanley Greenspan, Jake Greenspan and Tim Bleecker, and also with Dr. Gil Tippy and Tina McCourt at the Rebecca School, where he was a Head Teacher and Floortime Coach before moving out west for graduate school. I invited him to share his presentation from the Rebecca School DIR® NYC Conference on Neurodiversity-Affirming Care.

Link to the show notes with links to key discussion points and other ways to view or hear the episode here: ⁠http://affectautism.com/2021/04/10/neurodiversity 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/

This episode I welcome back Stephanie Peters and a new guest, Courtney St. Germain. Both are occupational therapists who are DIRFloortime® Expert Training Leaders at ICDL’s DIR® Institute in New Jersey where Courtney is the Program Director. We are discussing their Continuing Ed. article Combining DIRFloortime and Sensory Integration for Children With ASD that was published in AOTA in January, the American Occupational Therapy Association‘s OT Practice magazine. The article focuses on sensory modulation and how combining DIRFloortime® and sensory integration treatment promotes social-emotional development.

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/2021/03/06/dir-si/

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

Occupational therapist and Developmental, Individual differences, Relationship-based (DIR®) Floortime Trainer Keith Landherr of Little Buddies Pediatric Therapy in the Vancouver suburbs joins us this episode to discuss what sensory integration is and why emotional attunement and respecting the child's sensory experience is essential to it with helpful tips for parents.

Link to the show notes with links to key discussion points and other ways to view or hear the episode here: ⁠https://affectautism.com/2021/02/27/sensory-integration/⁠

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This episode’s topic stems from my take-aways from my family’s visit to The Floortime Center almost five years ago when Jake Greenspan told us that attention-seeking behaviours are actually emotion-seeking behaviours. This episode’s guests to revisit this topic are Morgan Weissman, an occupational therapist and a Floortime consultant at the Rebecca School in Manhattan who also works with families privately through Occuplay and Melissa Sinacori who is a certified teacher and part of the Floortime department at the Rebecca School. Both are DIR® Expert Training Leaders.

Link to the show notes with links to key discussion points and other ways to view or hear the episode here: ⁠https://affectautism.com/2021/02/20/seeking/

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/

One of my biggest revelations from being a Floortime parent that I presented at the DIRFloortime® conference in November was that parents "accept reality". This episode, child and family psychiatrist Dr. Joshua Feder and I discuss why it is so important to emphasize that accepting reality is a process that parents need to be supported in, and the ways in which we can do this.

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/2021/02/13/accepting-reality/

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