All Episodes

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 Floortime 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

Floortime 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?

Moving Up and Down Developmentally

Setting Appropriate Limits and Expectations by Respecting Where Your Child Is At, Developmentally

Self-Reflection in Floortime

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