Photo by Tima Miroshnichenko What is DIR? What is Floortime? DIR Glossary This Week’s Episode ToniAnn Loftus is DIR Expert and Speech-Language Pathologist. She trained at the Rebecca School and now owns and operates Seaport Speech and Feeding, a clinic in Manhattan. Today we are discussing inclusion in schools with a specific focus on speech and la…

Photo by NEOSiAM 2024+ What is DIR? What is Floortime? DIR Glossary This Week’s Topic The topic of this episode is trauma through a DIR/Floortime lens. Maude Le Roux recently did a course on this topic through the International Council on Development and Learning and here she covers how to work with trauma clients through the Functional Emotional D…

Photo by cottonbro studio What is DIR? What is Floortime? DIR Glossary This Week’s Topic The topic of this episode is to give an overview and review of the fourth Functional Emotional Developmental Capacity (FEDC 4) of the Developmental, Individual differences, and Relationship (DIR) Model from last episode, an overview of the fifth FEDC, and to di…

Photo by Mikhail Nilov What is DIR? What is Floortime? DIR Glossary This Week’s Topic The topic of this episode is the fourth Functional Emotional Developmental Capacity (FEDC 4) of the Developmental, Individual differences, and Relationship (DIR) Model based on the presentation our guests in March at the New York City DIR/Floortime conference call…

Photo by Anna Shvets What is DIR? What is Floortime? DIR Glossary This Week’s Topic This episode we are discussing intentionality in the third Functional Emotional Developmental Capacity (FEDC 3), which is Intentionality and Two-Way Communication in the Developmental, Individual differences, and Relationship (DIR) Model, and moving from FEDC 3 into…

Photo by Ketut Subiyanto What is DIR? What is Floortime? DIR Glossary This Week’s Podcast This week our topic is one that is a top request by parents: sleep. I covered it a bit with Dr. Joshua Feder in a previous podcast. Although neither this episode’s guest nor I are sleep experts, we want to come at the topic from a Floortime lens and present so…

Photo credit: Giant Steps Autism Centre What is DIR? What is Floortime? DIR Glossary This Week’s Podcast I’m speaking with Marla Cable, the Assistant Director of the Resource and Training Centre at Giant Steps Interdisciplinary Autism Centre in Montreal, Quebec, which houses the developmental approach, individualized private school in the public in…

Photo by Christina Morillo What is DIR? What is Floortime? DIR Glossary This Week’s Podcast Andrew Klein is a DIR Expert and Training Leader and a pediatric Occupational Therapist at Emerge Pediatric Therapy in Durham, North Carolina where he has a specialized role in facilitating reflective supervision with his colleagues. He is also a certified t…

Photo by Nicola Barts What is DIR? What is Floortime? DIR Glossary This Week’s Podcast This week’s podcast features DIR Expert Erin Forward, a speech-language pathologist and certified lactation counselor at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital. She is a part of their interdisciplinary feeding team and their outpatient setting. Erin has advanced training…

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…

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