Affect Autism

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/realizationCaregivers: 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

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

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 nonverbal 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 full blog post with links to key discussion points and other ways to view or hear the podcast here: https://affectautism.com/2019/09/30/preverbal/Caregivers: Consider joining our DIR® Parent Network for support from a like-minded community of Floortimers here: https://www.icdl.com/parents

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

This episode we have a new guest from Fresno, California. Kristy Gose is an Infant Family Mental Health Specialist, a Developmental, Individual differences, Relationship-based (DIR®) Floortime Expert Training Leader, and a professor at Fresno City College where she co-ordinates the Early Intervention Certificate Program. She also owns and operates the Touchstone Family Development Center in Fresno, which is a DIR® centre. We discuss how to do Floortime with groups–including with siblings and neurotypical children.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/2019/09/02/groups Caregivers: Consider joining our DIR® Parent Network for support from a like-minded community of Floortimers here: https://www.icdl.com/parents

Dr. Ira Glovinsky provides wonderful examples and analogies for parents and professionals working with children on the autism spectrum, or with emotional and behavioural challenges, on how the developmental approach honors each child's individual differences through relationship to invite out each child's potential.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/2017/08/22/developmental/Caregivers: Consider joining our DIR® Parent Network for support from a like-minded community of Floortimers here: https://www.icdl.com/parents

DIR-Expert Jackie Bartell returns this episode to discuss how to provide expectations for children with developmental differences in order to foster independence and developmental progress using a ⁠Developmental, Individual differences, Relationship-based (DIR®)⁠ approach. I present a few challenges we are currently facing at home and Jackie coaches me on how to implement some straight-forward practices to provide some relief for our family.Link to the show notes with links to key discussion points and other ways to view or hear the episode here: ⁠⁠https://affectautism.com/2019/08/19/fostering-independence/⁠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/⁠

Returning this episode is Dr. Joshua Feder, a child and family psychiatrist in Solana Beach, California using the Developmental, Individual differences, Relationship-based (DIR) model, an Expert DIR Training Leader, and an advocate with the DIR Coalition of California. We discuss how a behavioural approach can fit in with a developmental approach, such as DIR, as the autism world is moving away from Applied Behaviour Analysis (ABA) as the only option and towards family choice.Link to the show notes with links to key discussion points and other ways to view or hear the episode here: ⁠https://affectautism.com/2019/08/05/shift/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/

Joining us this episode is developmental, behavioural pediatrician Dr. Rick Solomon who is the medical director and founder of the P.L.A.Y. Project, which is derived from the Developmental, Individual differences, Relationship-based (DIR®) model. He discusses what the P.L.A.Y. Project is, how it came about, the research behind it, and how it is a solution for the huge wait lists for autism therapies.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/2019/06/24/play-project/Caregivers: Consider joining our DIR® Parent Network for support from a like-minded community of Floortimers here: https://www.icdl.com/parents