Photo above: The Kredich boys performing at school. What is DIR? What is Floortime? DIR Glossary This Week’s Podcast This week’s podcast features Kim Kredich who has served as a volunteer advocate for hundreds and hundreds of students with disabilities in East Tennessee, working with families to help their children gain rightful, supported inclusio…

What is DIR? What is Floortime? DIR Glossary This Week’s Podcast This week’s podcast features DIR Expert Nagwa Khedr, who is an early intervention specialist in Cairo, Egypt. She’s been practicing DIR/Floortime since 2014 and was involved recently in opening a DIR/Floortime Center there called Etwasel, which means ‘Connect‘ in English. We met in pe…

If I Need Help by Affect Autism https://affectautism.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/2024-03-29.mp3 This Week’s Guest For this podcast, I step outside of the DIR/Floortime world to showcase If I Need Help, a non profit that reunites those who might become lost, disoriented, or need assistance in a critical moment with their families, loved ones, and…

Photo credit: Kat Wilcox What is DIR? What is Floortime? DIR Glossary This Week’s Podcast This week’s podcast features returning guests, Special Educator Jackie Bartell and Speech Language Pathologist Bridget Palmer who are both DIR Experts and coaches in ICDL’s DIR Home Program, and who both teach courses at ICDL. Amy McMunn is the mother of two y…

Photo credit: Vika Glitter What is DIR? What is Floortime? DIR Glossary This Week’s Podcast This episode, returning guest, Occupational Therapist, Stephanie Peters, DIR Expert & Training Leader and Clinical Director with Kinder Growth discusses the developmental considerations around sharing. A Developmental Perspective on Sharing by Affect Autism …

Photo credit: Tara Winstead What is DIR? What is Floortime? DIR Glossary This Week’s Podcast This episode, Speech Therapist, Sabrina O’Keefe, DIR Expert & Training Leader, discusses Gestalt Language Processing within a Developmental, Individual differences, Relationship-based (DIR) framework, which listeners have been requesting for a long time! Ge…

Photo credit: James Gana What is DIR? What is Floortime? DIR Glossary Parent Perspectives: Navigating Our Different Support Roles by Affect Autism https://affectautism.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/2024-02-02.mp3 Parent Perspectives On this edition of Parent Perspectives from Affect Autism, we have a discussion with a mother and grandmother of an …

Photo credit: Ketut Subiyanto What is DIR? What is Floortime? DIR Glossary Parent Perspectives: Parent Self-Regulation by Affect Autism https://affectautism.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/2024-01-19-PP.mp3 Parent Perspectives On this edition of Parent Perspectives from Affect Autism, we have a parent discussion with an autistic parent of two autist…

Photo credit: Royal Opera House What is DIR? What is Floortime? DIR Glossary This Week’s Podcast This episode, I bring you the live recording we did at the International Council on Development and Learning (ICDL) 2023 International DIRFloortime Conference where I interviewed Dr. Ira Glovinsky who is a Clinical Psychologist in Michigan at The Glovin…

What is DIR? What is Floortime? DIR Glossary Parent Perspectives: Parents Listening to Autistic Self-Advocates by Affect Autism https://affectautism.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/2023-12-22-PP.mp3 A New Podcast! This week is another edition of Parent Perspectives from Affect Autism! I thought it would be helpful for parents and practitioners to he…

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