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Italian evolutionary psychologist, functional psychomotorist and DIRFloortime® trainer Serena Suman shares her insights on using individual differences in the sensory system and sensory processing to inform Floortime in the pool and all of the benefits it brings in promoting a child's 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/2020/09/28/pool/

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

Clinical psychologist, Dr. Ira Glovinsky, joins us to discuss the concept of interoception--what we feel inside viscerally and emotionally, and the impact that this can have in psychotherapy, and in parenting our children.

Link to the show notes with links to key discussion points and other ways to view or hear the episode here: ⁠https://affectautism.com/2020/09/13/interoception/

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Jehan Shehata-Aboubakr joins us this episode. She is a Speech-Language Pathologist at Clinical Communication Consultants in Thornhill, Ontario (just north of Toronto). She is a DIRFloortime® Expert Training Leader faculty with Profectum. We did an episode last year on scripting and she’s back today to discuss what to expect from developmental, relationship-based speech-language therapy.

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/2020/08/31/slp/

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

 Dr. Stephen Porges joins us this episode to discuss the Polyvagal Theory, its implications for autism and the quarantine, and its therapeutic listening application, the Safe and Sound Protocol, which was designed to restore a calm physiological state.

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/2020/08/24/polyvagal/

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

Advanced DIRFloortime® practitioner Stephanie Peters joins us this episode to discuss the phase that those new to Floortime go through, especially when coming from other approaches to autism supports. Stephanie is an occupational therapist and has been coaching parents online during the pandemic. We discuss the differences in the way we see our neurodivergent children and how that affects our relationship with them and their capacity to thrive.

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/2020/08/10/realization

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

Colette Ryan joins us this week to discuss meaning making. She is a Expert Training Leader in the Developmental, Individual-differences, Relationship-based (DIR) Model with the International Council on Development and Learning (ICDL), the Parent Support Specialist at ICDL’s DIR Home Program, a New York State endorsed infant mental health therapist, and an infant mental health fellow at Montclair State University in New Jersey working with Dr. Gerry Costa.

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/2020/07/27/meaning/

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

DIRFloortime® Expert Training Leader and mental health professional, Gene Christian returns to interview Daria Brown, the person behind Affect Autism. She has a Masters degree in Personality Psychology, holds an DIRFloortime® Advanced Provider certificate from the International Council on Development and Learning (ICDL), and has been a researcher in the public sector in health and education for over 25 years. She shares her story about finding Floortime, creating Affect Autism, and how it brought her hope and inspiration in raising her autistic son.

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/2020/03/29/meet-daria/

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