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DIRFloortime® Expert Training Leader, Clinical Psychologist, founder of the developmental transition service called Dirty Hands Developmental Alliance, and co-author of Respecting Autism, Dr. Gil Tippy, returns this episode. We are discussing an important distinction: that between the strategies that we use to get through day-to-day activities versus actual developmental work that supports our child’s growth. 

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/2019/12/09/growth/

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

Clinical psychologist, author, and father, Dr. Robert Naseef joins us to discuss the ambiguous loss parents feel when their child is diagnosed with autism and how to move that towards acceptance of the child you love, while making a difference in their life and becoming a better person because of it.

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/2019/11/11/acceptance/

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

This episode, we follow up our feature on schools that are using the Developmental, Individual differences, Relationship-based (DIR®) model, or DIRFloortime®, by interviewing Jackie Bartell, DIRFloortime® Expert Training Leader about applying the model in a public school setting for children with developmental differences including autism.

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/2017/10/30/public-school/

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

Jackie Bartell returns to discuss how to incorporate Developmental, Individual differences, Relationship-based (DIR®) model goals into your child’s Individualized Education Plan (IEP) at school. When schools start to target goals for children, Jackie says, they’re looking at the observable behaviour instead of looking at the things that need to come beneath that observable behaviour in order for the child to be successful. Jackie discusses how to take the language of the DIR® capacity and translate it into the language for the IEP.

Link to the show notes with links to key discussion points and other ways to view or hear the episode here: ⁠https://affectautism.com/2019/10/28/iep/

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, 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/

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/

Speech-Language Pathologist, Brown University faculty member, and Director of Childhood Communication Services (CCS), Dr. Barry Prizant joins us this episode to discuss the Social Communication Emotional Regulation Transactional Support (SCERTS) model for developmental differences, including autism, and his new best-selling, award-winning book, Uniquely Human.

Link to the full blog post with links to key discussion points and other ways to view or hear the podcast here: http://affectautism.com/2019/09/16/uniquely-human

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