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We chose play from Affect Autism — 317 episodes
REPLAY: A Developmental Approach to Setting Limits
Rethinking Autism Therapy mini-series Episode 1 on the Autistic Culture Podcast Network
Hope, Play, and Possibility Through DIRFloortime®
REPLAY: Fostering Independence
AUTISTIC Viewpoints Episode 13 with autistic guitarist Zayne Harshaw
Using a DIRFloortime® Lens in Psychological Assessments with Neurodivergent Individuals
REPLAY: Co-Regulation is the Driver for Sensory Integration
Supporting Regulation Through the Body
REPLAY: Trauma Through a DIR® Lens
Building Bridges Through Reflection, Compassion, and Community
REPLAY: Neurodiversity-Affirming Care
AUTISTIC Viewpoints Episode 12: Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough
Parent Perspectives: A Vision of Possibility
REPLAY: Creating Opportunities for Co-Regulatory Support
Book Overview of "You Are My Home: Stories of Attunement"
Parent Perspectives: Parenting Apraxia
Holding Space for Connection and Emotional Safety
REPLAY: Being Versus Doing
AUTISTIC Viewpoints Episode 11 with Autistic Self-Advocate Khylil Robinson
Episode 314 - DIR® Dialogues: Navigating Support Options for Your Family
REPLAY: Curiosity as a Driver of Connection and Interaction in Adolescence
Episode 313 - Leaning Into Presence and Uncertainty in Supporting Development
AUTISTIC Viewpoints Episode 10 Feeling Understood with AuDHD Licensed Professional Counselor, KW
REPLAY - Creating Opportunities in Floortime
Theoretical Models that Support our Attunement in Video Reflection
REPLAY - Gestural Development: The D, the I, and the R
DIRFloortime® Pioneers in Turkey
We Chose Play Season 1, Episode 6: Let's reflect
AUTISTIC Viewpoints Episode 9 with Breanne Burgess
Bloom Village
We Chose Play Season 1, Episode 5: Let's play!
Parent Perspectives: The Power of Relationship and Community
We Chose Play Season 1, Episode 4: Let's start
AUTISTIC Viewpoints Episode 8: A Deep Dive into the Band Nirvana
Movement Integrates
We Chose Play Season 1, Episode 3: How do we start?
DIR® Dialogues: Research Supporting DIRFloortime®
We Chose Play Season 1, Episode 2: What did we miss?
Centering Autism Perspectives in Canada
We Chose Play Season 1, Episode 1: In the beginning...
Parent Perspectives: Developing Resilience
AUTISTIC Viewpoints Episode 7: Year-End Wrap-Up
From Control to Connection: One Educator’s Transformation Through DIRFloortime®
AUTISTIC Viewpoints Episode 6 with Dr. Emile Gouws
Parent Perspectives: Watching Siblings Embrace Autism Together
AUTISTIC Viewpoints Episode 5 with Miles Kredich
Shared Joy and Agency in Outdoor Play
AUTISTIC Viewpoints: Episode 4 with Dr. Angela Kingdon
Parent Play Personas
Neurological Safety and Creating Your Happy Space
AUTISTIC Viewpoints Episode 3: The 10 Pillars of Autistic Culture
Rewriting the IEP Narrative: The Affirming Village
AUTISTIC Viewpoints Episode 2 with Khylil Robinson
Autistic Moms Chatting: Moving Forward with Awareness and Action
Bridging the Gap Between Home and School
Let's Talk About Essential Floortime Dynamics
Construyendo una Comunidad DIR® en América Latina
Building a DIR® Community in Latin America and Abroad
AUTISTIC Viewpoints Premiere Episode
AUTISTIC Viewpoints Trailer
A Model of a Medical DIR® Clinic
Autistic Moms Chatting: Creating Community
DIR® Dialogues: Gestalt Language Processing
Individualizing Support Through a Caring Relationship: Supporting PDA
Senderos: La primera escuela acreditada en DIR® de México
Senderos: Mexico's First DIR®-Accredited School
DIR® Dialogues: An Exploration of Limit-Setting
Parent Perspectives: Powerful Insights From a DIRFloortime® Intensive
DIR® Dialogues: Becoming a Floortime Practitioner
Bicycle Lessons 4 All
Pre-Linguistics Are Pre-Social Abilities
Neurodiversity-Affirming Support in DIR®-Informed Music Therapy
Olas de Conexión: Surfeando el Enfoque Floortime
Waves of Connection: Surfing the Floortime Approach
Let’s Talk About Autism Inclusion this April
Perspectivas de los Padres: Reuniones de Apoyo para Padres Floortime
DIR® Dialogues: Floortime Around the World
Joyfully Together: Collaboration in the DIRFloortime® Approach
Following the Child’s Emotional Intent
Parent Perspectives: Finding and Holding on to Floortime
DIR® Dialogues: Parent Practitioners
DIR® and the Science of Hope
Parent Perspectives: Floortime Intensives at the DIR® Institute
Intensives at the DIR® Institute
Floortime Supports Parental Self-Efficacy
Diagnosing Autism in Girls and Women
Co-Regulation through Affective Signalling
Gestural Development: The D, the I, and the R
In-Home Floortime Coaching Supports Families
Bringing DIR® Into the Classroom to Accommodate Communication for All
Trauma Through a DIR® Lens
Developing Through FEDC 4 into FEDC 5
FEDC 4: Complex Communication and Shared Problem Solving
Nurturing Intentionality as a Bridge to FEDC 4
A DIR® Lens on Sleep
Giant Steps Interdisciplinary Autism Centre
Reflective Practice in DIR®
DIR® and Medically Complex Children: Trauma-Informed Care
Advocating for Rightful Inclusion in School
Affect and Regulation in Middle Eastern Culture
If I Need Help
Presuming Competence
A Developmental Perspective on Sharing
Gestalt Language Processing and DIR®
Parent Perspectives: Navigating Our Different Support Roles
Parent Perspectives: Parent Self-Regulation
Revisiting the R: Hidden Regulators in the Development of Relationships
Parent Perspectives: Parents Listening to Autistic Self-Advocates
Regulating through Trauma
Autistic Masking or Impression Management?
Parent Perspectives: Retrospective Perspective
Visual Spatial Planning and Assessment (ViSPA)
Visualization Leads to Imagination
Parent Perspectives: Relationships, Play, and Growth
Parent Perspectives: Navigating our Health and Education Systems
Harnessing the Power of Narratives to Impact Development
(Non)Compliance does not equal (Dys)Regulation
A New Community-Created Resource: SLP MAPs
Parent Perspectives: How Do We Handle Fears and Anxiety?
Adapted Spiral Praxis and Movement for the Bodymind Process
All About Praxis: Part 2 of 2
All About Praxis: Part 1 of 2
A Floortime Approach to Fears and Phobias
Floortime Coaching for Different Parenting Styles
The Somatosensory System and Tactile Perception
Physical Therapy is Enhanced Using a Floortime Lens
Our Differences are Our Strengths
Autism and Medication: Part 2
Emotional Playgrounds Foster Emotional Well-Being
Curiosity as a Driver of Connection and Interaction in Adolescence
Empowering Ability
The Dynamic Process of Transitions
Giant Steps School in Montréal, Québec
Part 2: Adult Diagnosis and What it Means
Part 1: To Whom Should Parents Listen?
The Process of Parenting our Neurodivergent Children
Part 2: Bridging the Gap in Understanding
Part 1: Taking that Step on the Red Carpet
The Complexity of Vision and Visual Processing
Kinder Growth DIRFloortime® Medicaid Services
Unpacking Aggression
The Conversation
The Impact of Vestibular Processing on Development
Good Intentions Creating Unseen Stigma
Parents can Connect with their Children Through Musical Interactions
My Autism, My Story
Your Growth is your Child’s Growth: Strength in Relationships
The World’s First International Concert to Celebrate Neurodiversity
Gauging our Developmental Capacities: Part 2
Gauging our Developmental Capacities: Part 1
DIRFloortime® and Physical Therapy
Creating Opportunities for Co-Regulatory Support
Access and Choice in NY State for Autism Supports and Services
A Developmental Approach to Toileting: Part 2
A Developmental Approach to Toileting: Part 1
Gross Motor versus Fine Motor Functions
The Impact of Cognitive Load on Relating, Communicating, and Thinking
The Rubber Band Metaphor in Floortime
Sensorimotor Profiles in Floortime
Identity Exploration and Finding Your Voice
Going Slower to Move Faster
Critical Core: A Tabletop Role-Playing Game
KultureCity: Sensory Accessibility and Inclusion
DIRFloortime® as a Comprehensive Developmental Approach
DIR Child & Family Counselling
Feeding and Floortime
Creative Arts Through Music and Drama
Constrictions in Developmental Capacities
Redefining the Autism Narrative: Part 2
Redefining the Autism Narrative: Part 1
Positive Development
Virtual Floortime Coaching for Parents
A Parent’s Experience of DIR/Floortime
DIRFloortime® Summer Camps
Am I Neurodivergent Like My Child?
Creating Opportunities in Floortime
Communication-Action-Affect (known as W-A-A) in Floortime
Examining the Experience of Autistic Students in Higher Education
Floortime Lifestyle
Alternative and Augmentative Communication (AAC) Devices
Example of a Floortime Session
The Power of Purposeful Communication
Enriching Sensory and Motor Experiences at Home
Sensory Ingredients and Dynamic Responsivity
Floortime is also Adolescent- and Adult-Led
ADHD: A VAST Topic
Affect Depends on Interoception
Neurodiversity-Affirming Care
Fostering Friendships Virtually Using Games
Approaching Pre-Academics with Floortime
Why Floortime is Child-Led
Humour Development in Autism
Combining DIRFloortime and Sensory Integration
Co-Regulation is the Driver for Sensory Integration
Emotion Seeking and Saying "No!"
Supporting Parents in the Process of Accepting Reality
A Self-Advocate’s Inspiring Journey
Good Autism Education is Just Good Education
Building Relationships in the Practice of Palliative Care using DIR/Floortime
The Heart of DIRFloortime®: The R and Genuine Affect
Facilitating Emotional and Logical Thinking: Part 3
Facilitating Emotional and Logical Thinking: Part 2
Facilitating Emotional and Logical Thinking: Part 1
Recognizing and Documenting Our Children’s Communication Cues
How do we best prepare our multidisciplinary professionals in the field of autism?
My Biggest Revelations from Being a Floortime Parent: Part 2
My Biggest Revelations from Being a Floortime Parent: Part 1
Support for Fathers of Children on the Spectrum
The Future is Here: Fostering Neurodivergent Students’ Media Literacy
Art with Heart: An Open Studio Approach to DIR/Floortime
Parent Support Groups
Navigating our therapy teams and social circles
Supporting Parents in DIRFloortime®
Threshold Community Program: DIR® for adolescents and young adults
Research Supporting DIRFloortime®
Floortime in the Pool: A Deeper Dive
Individual differences and Floortime in the Pool
Attention and Executive Function
Interoception: What is your child feeling inside?
Online Schooling and Services during a Pandemic
What to Expect from a Developmentally-Based Speech-Language Pathologist
Polyvagal Theory and Regulating our Bodily State
The Realization Phase
Meaning Making
Affect Autism’s Daria Brown
Promoting Parent Choice
A Closer Look at Impulsivity
Strategies Don’t Support Growth
Promoting Symbolic Thinking in Small Group Settings
From Ambiguous Loss to Acceptance
Applying the DIR® Model in a Public School
Incorporating DIR Goals into the Individual Education Plan (IEP)
Regulation Challenges through the Developmental Capacities
The Importance of Preverbal Affective Signalling
Uniquely Human
Floortime with Family and Small Groups
A Developmental Approach Overview
Fostering Independence
The Shift Towards Developmental Approaches
Floortime Review
FOODTIME: A developmental approach to picky and rigid eating
The P.L.A.Y. Project
Sensory and Developmental Poetry Workshops
What is Scripting All About?
A Review of Developmental Social Pragmatic Interventions
Focusing on Regulation
Remediation versus Accommodation
Dirty Hands Developmental Alliance
From Dysregulation to Intent
And then comes puberty…
Supporting the Development of Self-Regulation
The Foundation for Regulation
The new Connection Coder app
Floortime Tips for Behavioural Challenges at Home
Floortime Tips for Behavioural Challenges at School
Theory of Mind is Developmental
Self-Regulation Starts With Us
Self-Reg and DIRFloortime®
Dhamma and DIR
Growth and Gaming
Affect Is Your #1 Resource to Connect with Your Child
Circles of Communication in Floortime
Can You Teach Emotions?
Why Challenging and Expanding Are Essential for Human Growth
Being Versus Doing
Floortime Feedback
Early Social-Emotional Capacities
Autism and Medication
DIRFloortime® through Music Therapy
The Little Scientist: Progression of Cause-and-Effect Play
The Joy in Communicating
Can Visual Prompts About Time Promote Understanding in Floortime?
Floortime Follow-up
Sensory Lifestyle
Avoiding the Blame in Floortime
Maude Le Roux’s new Functional Developmental Autism Assessment Protocol
Promoting Capacities 4 and 5 with Floortime
How a caregiver’s regulation affects the child’s regulation
Floortime all day, anywhere
Repetition in autism therapy: A closer look
Facilitating Process-Oriented Learning With Developmental Capacity In Mind: The Just-Right Challenge
Process-Oriented Learning Inspires Relating, Communicating, and Thinking
Applying the DIR Model in a Public School
Threshold Community Program: DIR for adolescents and young adults
The Rebecca School: Relationships are the Foundation of Learning
Foundation Academics: What Is It?
Developmental Growth Spurts: What to Expect
Floortime Analysis
The Building Blocks of Motor Planning
What Does Following the Child's Lead Really Mean?
DIRFloortime® Addresses Patient-Centered Outcomes, Offers Parent Choice, and is Aligned with Disability Rights
Moving Up and Down Developmentally
Setting Appropriate Limits and Expectations by Respecting Where Your Child Is At, Developmentally
Self-Reflection in Floortime
A Developmental Approach to Setting Limits
Respecting the Emotional Experience and Expressions of the Child
Emotions (within safe relationships) Are Key to Supporting Autism
Slowing Down and Stretching Out Interactions
Stumbling Blocks in Floortime at FEDC 6: Fostering Logical Thinking and Building Bridges between Ideas
A User’s Guide to the Developmental, Individual differences, Relationship-based (DIR®) Model
Stumbling Blocks in Floortime at FEDC 5: Inspiring the Expression of Ideas and Feelings
Stumbling Blocks in Floortime at FEDC 4: Encouraging Shared Problem-Solving
Stumbling Blocks in Floortime at FEDC 3: Encouraging Intentional Emotional Interactions
Stumbling Blocks in Floortime at FEDC 2: Fostering Engaging and Relating
Motor Planning and Sequencing Challenges in Children with Developmental Differences
Stumbling Blocks in Floortime at FEDC 1: Facilitating Shared Attention and Regulation
Co-Regulation in Floortime: How to Interact with a Dysregulated Child
The Interaction of the D, the I, and the R in the Floortime Session
The Nuts and Bolts of the Floortime Session
Starting DIRFloortime® With Your Child: Where Is Your Child Developmentally?
Starting DIRFloortime® With Your Child: Step 1 Is the Sensory Processing Profile
Floortime as a Family Approach
Introduction to Floortime
The R in the DIR® Model: Relationship-Based
The I in the DIR® Model: Individual Differences
The D in the DIR® Model: Development
It’s All About Affect