This episode I’m pleased to welcome new 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 2022 International DIRFloortime® Conference 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 full blog post with links to key discussion points and other ways to view or hear the podcast here:

https://affectautism.com/2023/01/21/transitions/

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

On this episode I’m speaking with Marla Cable, the Resource and Training Centre Coordinator at Giant Steps School. Giant Steps is a bilingual, developmental approach, individualized private school in the public interest in Montréal, Québec with 93 students aged 4 to 21 with an autism diagnosis. They have both English and French instruction and students are grouped by age clusters. Their school was visited by DIRFloortime® creator, Dr. Stanley Greenspan, in their early days and recently had Dr. Gil Tippy speak at their professional development day. They are now in the process of building their new facility that will open in the summer of 2023.

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/2023/01/07/giant-steps/

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

This episode, in Part 2, Kieran Rose and I will discuss late autism diagnosis and what it means. In Part 1, we discussed a number of topics around neurodiversity including who to listen to as parents when our child is diagnosed with so many opinions out there, and the balance between what we want as parents for our children and what our kids actually need.

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/2022/12/17/diagnosis/

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

In this episode, part 1, Kieran Rose and I will discuss a number of topics around neurodiversity including who to listen to as parents when our child is diagnosed with so many opinions out there, and the balance between what we want as parents for our children and what our kids actually need. In Part 2 next week, we’ll discuss late diagnosis and what it means.

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/2022/12/10/advice/

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’re discussing the parenting process, the intersection of the parenting experience and Nicole Mank’s professional world, and how one shaped the other. Nicole, who is a  Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and Certified Child Life Specialist in Davis, California discovered the book Engaging Autism when her son was seven which shaped how she parented her autistic child.

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/2022/11/26/parenting/

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

Occupational Therapist Maude Le Roux is back to discuss the visual system, vision, and visual processing, following up from our podcast episode on the vestibular system from a few months ago. The I in the Developmental, Individual differences, Relationship-based (DIR®) model is for "individual differences", which includes the sensory processing profile of which vision is part. A lot of neurodivergent kids have different issues that come up around visual processing and visual spatial processing.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/2022/10/15/vision Caregivers: Consider joining our DIR® Parent Network for support from a like-minded community of Floortimers here: https://www.icdl.com/parents

Sari Levin is a Special Educator who has worked with families for a long time and is the Clinical Supervisor of Kinder Growth where they provide home-based DIRFloortime® services throughout New Jersey and are the first accredited DIR® organization in the state of NJ. Sari has her Advanced DIR® certificate. Also with us today is returning guest, Occupational Therapist Stephanie Peters who is the Clinical Director with Kinder Growth and teaches certificate courses as a DIRFloortime® Expert Training Leader. This episode we discuss the parent support services that Kinder Growth provides including direct coaching, and what their accreditation means to them.

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/2022/09/24/kinder-growth/

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