Affect Autism

I am absolutely thrilled to have returning guest, Educator Kasheena Holder back, who is a DIRFloortime® Expert and Training Leader with the International Council on Development and Learning and owner and director of Legacy, an inclusive school in Barbados where about 60 percent of her students are neurodivergent and about 40 percent are neurotypical. Link to the full blog post with links to key discussion points here: https://affectautism.com/2024/10/11/signalling/ Caregivers: Consider joining our DIR® Parent Network for support from a like-minded community of Floortimers here: https://www.icdl.com/parents

Brookes Barrack is a Speech-Language Pathologist and DIRFloortime® Expert Training Leader who has a clinic just outside of Kansas City, Kansas with Occupational Therapist Emily Tritz called Kansas City Developmental Therapies where they offer DIR® services. This summer they became an official accredited DIR® Organization. She originally trained in Floortime at "the Bunker" with Drs. Greenspan and Wieder in Washington, D.C. and in the PLAY Project with Dr. Rick Solomon at his home. This episode we are discussing Gestural development : The D, the I, and the R. Link to the full blog post with links to key discussion points here: https://affectautism.com/2024/09/27/gestures/ Caregivers: Consider joining our DIR® Parent Network for support from a like-minded community of Floortimers by going here: https://www.icdl.com/parents