Affect Autism

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

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

Joining us this episode is Jehan Shehata-Aboubakr, a Speech-Language Pathologist (SLP) at Clinical Communication Consultants in Thornhill, Ontario (just north of Toronto) where she practices with a functional pragmatic and DIRFloortime® approach. She is a DIRFloortime® Expert Training Leader with the International Council on Development and Learning (ICDL) and faculty with Profectum. We have been working together on advocacy, trying to get developmental approaches funded here in Ontario and it’s a pleasure to finally feature Jehan on the podcast!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/2019/05/27/scriptingCaregivers: Consider joining our DIR® Parent Network for support from a like-minded community of Floortimers here: https://www.icdl.com/parents

Licensed Mental Health Counselor and DIRFloortime® Expert Training Leader Gene Christian joins us from Spokane, Washington this episode to share how adults with extreme developmental differences can benefit from Floortime. His description of how to bring out the early social-emotional capacities through playful interactions really informs our practice as parents and professionals. He really provides the rationale to support nonverbal adults who are dysregulated, seemingly stuck in their own worlds, to intent where they can have meaningful communications with the caregivers in their lives.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/2019/02/25/intent/Caregivers: Consider joining our DIR® Parent Network for support from a like-minded community of Floortimers here: https://www.icdl.com/parents