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We chose play from Affect Autism
by Daria Brown
Developmental happens through relationships across a lifetime. Join Daria Brown as she dives into implementing a Floortime approach with neurodivergent individuals.
Episodes
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REPLAY: The Impact of Vestibular Processing on Development
A returning, frequent guest, Occupational Therapist Maude Le Roux joins us this episode to discuss the impact of vestibular processing on the functional emotional developmental capacities (FEDCs) in the Developmental, Individual differences, Relationship-based (DIR®) model, or…
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The DIR® Approach to "Selective" Mutism
October is Selective Mutism Awareness Month! In this episode, speech-language pathologists Dr. Joleen Fernald, a DIR-Expert, and Lauren Kline of Bjorem Speech explain Selective Mutism and Situational Mutism and discuss Dr. Jo’s DIR-SM card deck, a developmental approach to selective mutism. Link…
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REPLAY: Navigating our Therapy Teams and Social Circles
Developmental and Clinical Psychologist Dr. Kathy Platzman from Floortime Atlanta is here to cover a few topics: the transdisciplinary approach, parent guilt, and navigating social circles for parents with neurodivergent children--a question from an Affect Autism member.Link to the show notes…
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DIR® Dialogues: The DIR® Approach to AAC
In this episode we are discussing the use of alternative and augmentative communication (AAC) with five DIRFloortime® speech-language therapists. Link to the show notes with links to key discussion points and other ways to view or hear the episode here:...
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11th ANNIVERSARY REPLAY: The Importance of Preverbal Affective Signalling
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...
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REPLAY: The Dynamic Process of Transitions
This episode I’m pleased to welcome 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 that I took so much away from and I am so excited to welcome her this week to share...
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How Do You Know? Reflections on Clinical Thinking
Dr. Ira Glovinsky is a clinical psychologist in Ann Arbor, Michigan who has primarily worked with children with severe mood This episode, we discuss some important holes in clinical practice, how to notice them, and what we can do about them. with two returning guests to the podcast. Dr. Ira...
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Rethinking Autism Therapy mini-series Episode 4 of 4 on the Autistic Culture Podcast Network
Rethinking Autism Therapy is a four-part mini-series for parents, caregivers, professionals, and Autistic individuals who want to learn about DIRFloortime®, a strength-based, developmental, relationship-driven approach to growth and connection. Can DIRFloortime® help autistic adults, too? In this...
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AUTISTIC Viewpoints Episode 14 with aspiring autistic self-advocate Jacob Raphael
AUTISTIC Viewpoints is a podcast hosted by Turrell Burgess and Daria Brown. On Episode 14, Turrell and Daria interview Jacob Raphael on the occasion of the release of "Miracle of the Heart" co-written with his father. Jacob shares his experience growing up autistic, his...
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REPLAY: It's Only as Good as the Implementation
An autism approach can only be as good as its implementation. To implement a developmental approach with integrity, such as DIRFloortime®, the basic concepts of focus on development over behaviour, accepting all behaviour as communication, attuning yourself to the child, and learning through...
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Rethinking Autism Therapy mini-series Episode 3 of 4 on the Autistic Culture Podcast Network
Rethinking Autism Therapy is a four-part mini-series for parents, caregivers, professionals, and Autistic individuals who want to learn about DIRFloortime®, a strength-based, developmental, relationship-driven approach to growth and connection. How does DIRFloortime® meet autistic needs in a...
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REPLAY: A Developmental Perspective on Sharing
This episode, returning guest Occupational Therapist Stephanie Peters, DIRFloortime® Expert Training Leader and Clinical Director with Kinder Growth, discusses the developmental considerations around sharing. Link to the show notes with links to key discussion points and other ways to view or…
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Rethinking Autism Therapy mini-series Episode 2 of 4 on the Autistic Culture Podcast Network
Rethinking Autism Therapy is a four-part mini-series for parents, caregivers, professionals, and Autistic individuals who want to learn about DIRFloortime®, a strength-based, developmental, relationship-driven approach to growth and connection. What does DIRFloortime® actually feel like from the...
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REPLAY: A Developmental Approach to Setting Limits
Setting limits with development in mind with children who have developmental differences, including autism, means being firm with compassion, warmth, empathy and respect. Being attuned to our children's emotional experience is the key to seeing their behaviour as communication, which will help us...
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Rethinking Autism Therapy mini-series Episode 1 on the Autistic Culture Podcast Network
Rethinking Autism Therapy is a four-part mini-series for parents, caregivers, professionals, and Autistic individuals who want to learn about DIRFloortime®, a strength-based, developmental, relationship-driven approach to growth and connection. What is DIRFloortime® and why do so many families…
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Hope, Play, and Possibility Through DIRFloortime®
David Raphael is a social worker and was the co-founder of the former Floortime Foundation, a national organization advancing relationship-based interventions. He is here to discuss his first book, A Miracle of the Heart: A Father and Son’s Autism Journey, co-written with his son Jacob and...
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REPLAY: Fostering Independence
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...
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AUTISTIC Viewpoints Episode 13 with autistic guitarist Zayne Harshaw
AUTISTIC Viewpoints is a podcast hosted by Turrell Burgess and Daria Brown. On Episode 13, Turrell and Daria welcome extraordinary autistic guitarist Zayne Harshaw, leader of the band, Blue Spectrum, to discuss his autism journey, teaching himself guitar, discovering his...
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Using a DIRFloortime® Lens in Psychological Assessments with Neurodivergent Individuals
This episode features three psychologists from Rebecca School in New York City who discuss how psychological assessments can better reflect the true abilities of neurodivergent children when viewed through a DIRFloortime® lens. They explain that traditional testing often measures a child’s…
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REPLAY: Co-Regulation is the Driver for Sensory Integration
Occupational therapist and Developmental, Individual differences, Relationship-based (DIR®) Floortime Trainer Keith Landherr of Little Buddies Pediatric Therapy in the Vancouver suburbs joins us this episode to discuss what sensory integration is and why emotional attunement and respecting the...
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Supporting Regulation Through the Body
This episode we're discussing supporting regulation through the body first versus leaning on cognitive strategies to support children with pediatric occupational therapist and Advanced DIRFloortime® provider Stephanie Gagnon. Link to the show notes with links to key discussion points and other…
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REPLAY: Trauma Through a DIR® Lens
The topic of this episode is trauma through a DIR® lens. Maude Le Roux recently did a course on this topic through the International Council on Development and Learning (ICDL) and here she covers how to work with trauma clients through the Functional Emotional Developmental Capacities...
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Building Bridges Through Reflection, Compassion, and Community
Kieran and Michelle Rose return to the podcast to discuss their new community at The Autistic Advocate and Kieran's latest book, Autism – A Collection of Essays. They reflect on nearly a decade of advocacy, how the autism landscape has evolved, and why meaningful change depends on compassion,...
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REPLAY: Neurodiversity-Affirming Care
Licensed Clinical Psychologist, Alex Klein, joins us this episode from Oakland, California where he is both in private practice and works at the Kaiser Oakland Medical Center assessing and providing therapy to both children and adults with neurodevelopmental differences. He trained with Dr.…
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AUTISTIC Viewpoints Episode 12: Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough
AUTISTIC Viewpoints is a podcast hosted by Turrell Burgess and Daria Brown. On Episode 12, "Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough," Turrell and Daria cover Michael Jackson: the new movie, the songs, the fandom, his intersection with DIRFloortime (what?!) and a few more…
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Parent Perspectives: A Vision of Possibility
My guests this episode are Gwen and Gene Harshaw. At 4 years old their son Zayne was diagnosed with autism and his parents were told that he would never be able to read, button his shirt, zip zippers or tie his shoes, or connect with other people. His parents found strength through Zayne’s gifts...
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REPLAY: Creating Opportunities for Co-Regulatory Support
Sometimes the biggest challenge parents have with their autistic children who have meltdowns is meeting the child emotionally and connecting. Here, we need to find the affect they’re having in that moment in order to support them to feel heard and understood. Developmental, Individual…
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Book Overview of "You Are My Home: Stories of Attunement"
Returning guest Julia Swaigen is a registered social worker in Toronto who founded and directs Attuned Families, a clinic to help families harness the power of relationships so that parents find peace and children thrive. They offer family therapy, child therapy, parent coaching, and also work…
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Parent Perspectives: Parenting Apraxia
This episode falls in the month of May which is Apraxia Awareness Month. I’m pleased to welcome my friend, Brandy Jordan, the mother of a 14-year-old, non speaking, Apraxic Autistic son. She is joining us to talk about their journey. Link to the show notes with links to key discussion points and...
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Holding Space for Connection and Emotional Safety
In this episode, psychologist and Neufeld Institute senior faculty member Eva de Gosztonyi shares reflections from over 50 years working in schools across Canada and explains how Gordon Neufeld’s attachment-based developmental paradigm transformed her understanding of children, behaviour…
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REPLAY: Being Versus Doing
Jackie Bartell is back with us this episode for a fantastic discussion about a concept so essential to the Developmental, Individual differences, Relationship-based (DIR®) model and Floortime, and that is that we are human beings not human doings. Jackie is a retired special educator with the...
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AUTISTIC Viewpoints Episode 11 with Autistic Self-Advocate Khylil Robinson
AUTISTIC Viewpoints is a podcast hosted by Turrell Burgess and Daria Brown. On Episode 11, returning guest Khylil Robinson joins us! Learn more at https://affectautism.com/autistic-viewpoints/ Timestamps: 00:13 Introductions 01:27 Khylil's recent award 01:46...
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Episode 314 - DIR® Dialogues: Navigating Support Options for Your Family
In this episode we aim to give parents and caregivers a guide for being confident enough to trust in their intuition and what they want for their children when seeking DIRFloortime® practitioners to implement a DIRFloortime® approach. Link to the show notes with links to key discussion points and...
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REPLAY: Curiosity as a Driver of Connection and Interaction in Adolescence
In our last podcast episode together, back in 2019, Dave Nelson and I discussed puberty and how we can best support our kids in a respectful way using a developmental approach. In this episode, we want to continue on that topic by touching on the developmental way to support our adolescents in...
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Episode 313 - Leaning Into Presence and Uncertainty in Supporting Development
Occupational Therapist and DIR-Expert Maude Le Roux and homeschooling parent Daniela Bishop discuss the importance of clinical reasoning in attuning to the child by being present, staying in the moment, sitting in discomfort and uncertainty and making inferences about the child’s internal...
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AUTISTIC Viewpoints Episode 10: Feeling Understood with AuDHD Licensed Professional Counselor, KW
AUTISTIC Viewpoints is a podcast hosted by Turrell Burgess and Daria Brown. Episode 10 features guest KW, a Licensed Professional Counselor who was identified as AuDHD in his 30s. He lives with his neurodivergent spouse and five fur-kids in Midwest-USA. He is an artist,...
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REPLAY - Creating Opportunities in DIRFloortime®
Returning guest, Licensed Professional Counsellor and DIR® Expert Training Leader, Mike Fields from Floortime Atlanta and Inneractions Therapy Services, joins us this episode to discuss how we want to be creating opportunities for our children in DIRFloortime® rather than stealing opportunities...
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Theoretical Models that Support our Attunement in Video Reflection
In this episode, Turkish DIR® Expert Training Leader, speech-language pathologist, and physiotherapist Kemal Colay shares his theoretical framework integrating valence and arousal within a DIR®-informed approach to support connection in his work with children, and how he uses video review as a...
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REPLAY - Gestural Development: The D, the I, and the R
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...
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DIRFloortime® Pioneers in Turkey
Çiğdem Ergül and Elif Akat are the pioneers of DIRFloortime® in Turkey. Both dedicated DIR® clinicians and Expert Training Leaders, they started at different times at ICDL’s DIR® Institute "back in the day" with Drs. Stanley Greenspan and Serena Wieder. They are deeply committed to preserving the...
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We Chose Play Season 1, Episode 6: Let's reflect
Every other week in 2026 so far, you've been hearing the audio only of one episode of the Floortime documentary, We Chose Play. This time it's Season 1, Episode 6, called, "Let's reflect" where you see an example of reviewing a Floortime video with a Floortime coach to highlight the reflection...
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AUTISTIC Viewpoints Episode 9 with Breanne Burgess
On Episode 9 of AUTISTIC Viewpoints, Turrell Burgess and Daria Brown interview Turrell's younger sister, Breanne! Learn more at https://affectautism.com/autistic-viewpoints/ Timestamps: 00:14 Introductions 01:28 Turrell's first question for his sister 02:27 What…
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Bloom Village
Princess Owens is parenting educator, writer, and mindfulness facilitator whose work uplifts neurodivergent families with compassion and intention. As the founder and lead consultant of Bloom Village Co., she helps family-serving organizations build more inclusive, culturally grounded, and...
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We Chose Play Season 1, Episode 5: Let's play!
Every other week in 2026 so far, you've been hearing the audio only of one episode of the Floortime documentary, We Chose Play. This time it's Season 1, Episode 5, called, "Let's play!" that includes examples of our early experiences doing Floortime. We Chose Play is a series documenting…
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Parent Perspectives: The Power of Relationship and Community
This episode's guest is Krithika, a Northern California mom to an 11-year-old Autistic son, who discovered DIRFloortime® after years of traditional therapy led to more frustration than progress. That shift changed everything. Now she is a passionate advocate for her son and a connector for other...
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We Chose Play Season 1, Episode 4: Let's start
Every other week in 2026 so far, you've been hearing the audio only of one episode of the Floortime documentary, We Chose Play. This time it's Season 1, Episode 4, called, "Let's start" that covers looking at your child’s individual profile to inform your play and features DIR-Expert and...
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AUTISTIC Viewpoints Episode 8: A Deep Dive into the Band Nirvana
On Episode 8 of AUTISTIC Viewpoints, Turrell Burgess and Daria Brown take a deep dive into one of their favourite bands, Nirvana. Learn more at https://affectautism.com/autistic-viewpoints/ Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 00:58 This episode's topic 01:58 Turrell's favourite...
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Movement Integrates
In this episode, number 305, I interview DIR® Expert Training Leader and Occupational Therapist Maude Le Roux who has a DIR® clinic, A Total Approach, in Glen Mills, PA. She has her own online academy where she trains professionals and parents and recently launched a fabulous new Family Support...
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We Chose Play Season 1, Episode 3: How do we start?
Every other week in 2026 so far, you've been hearing the audio only of one episode of the Floortime documentary We Chose Play. This time it’s Season 1, Episode 3, called, “How do we start?” that covers understanding the most important thing you can do to support your child and features Dr. Ira...
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DIR® Dialogues: Research Supporting DIRFloortime®
This DIR® Dialogues panel explores the research base behind DIRFloortime®, highlighting both its strong, transdisciplinary foundations and the challenges of measuring developmental, relational change within traditional research models like randomized controlled trials (RCTs). The discussion...
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