Affect Autism

Bridget Palmer is a DIRFloortime® Expert Training Leader in the Developmental, Individual differences, Relationship-based (DIR®) model and a speech-language pathologist in Buffalo, NY. She runs a Floortime parent support group called Floortime Families which was in person but is now online during the pandemic.Link to the full blog post with links to key discussion points and other ways to view or hear the podcast here: https://affectautism.com/2020/11/01/parent-supportCaregivers: Consider joining our DIR® Parent Network for support from a like-minded community of Floortimers here: https://www.icdl.com/parents

DIRFloortime® Expert Training Leader and developmental and clinical psychologist, 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 a Patron.Link to the full blog post with links to key discussion points and other ways to view or hear the podcast here: https://affectautism.com/2020/10/25/navigatingCaregivers: Consider joining our DIR® Parent Network for support from a like-minded community of Floortimers here: https://www.icdl.com/parents

Dave Nelson's son's needs were not being met by the public school system, so he started a school for him. Come hear Dave's incredible story about starting Threshold Community Program that serves adolescents and young adults with developmental differences including autism using the DIRFloortime® approach, or the Developmental, Individual differences, Relationship-based (DIR®) model.Link to the full blog post with links to key discussion points and other ways to view or hear the podcast here: https://affectautism.com/2017/10/23/threshold-community-program/Caregivers: Consider joining our DIR® Parent Network for support from a like-minded community of Floortimers here: https://www.icdl.com/parents

This topic comes up when people haven’t heard of DIRFloortime®. They ask, “What about research? Can we justify this approach with research?” ⁠Dr. Diane Cullinane joins us this episode to review some of the research supporting DIRFloortime. She is a developmental pediatrician and an Expert DIRFloortime® practitioner in South Pasadena, one of the founders of the⁠ DIR® Coalition of California⁠ which advocates for DIRFloortime® and the author of Behavioural Challenges in Children with Autism and other Special needs: The Developmental Approach⁠. Dr. Cullinane wrote a white paper summarizing the research to date in 2017 which is on the research page of the International Council on Development and Learning. Link to the full blog post with links to key discussion points and other ways to view or hear the podcast here: https://affectautism.com/2020/10/11/research/Caregivers: Consider joining our DIR® Parent Network for support from a like-minded community of Floortimers here: https://www.icdl.com/parents

Italian evolutionary psychologist, functional psychomotorist and DIRFloortime® trainer Serena Suman shares her insights on using individual differences in the sensory system and sensory processing to inform Floortime in the pool and all of the benefits it brings in promoting a child's development.Link to the full blog post with links to key discussion points and other ways to view or hear the podcast here: https://affectautism.com/2020/09/28/pool/Caregivers: Consider joining our DIR® Parent Network for support from a like-minded community of Floortimers here: https://www.icdl.com/parents