Affect Autism

Mary Beth Crawford is a licensed Physical therapist and DIRFloortime® Expert Training Leader who founded Baby Steps Therapy in 2008. Mary Beth regularly provides lectures and in-service training to numerous parent groups, and medical professionals and allied health groups on the foundations of motor development, and on her unique approach to pediatric physical therapy. She is here to talk about how she practices Physical Therapy within a Floortime approach.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/2022/04/09/pt/Caregivers: Consider joining our DIR® Parent Network for support from a like-minded community of Floortimers here: https://www.icdl.com/parents

Those using the Developmental, Individual differences, Relationship-based (DIR®) model for children with developmental differences, including autism, in a school-setting use process-oriented learning to inspire relating, communicating, and thinking in their students. This looks different depending on where the child is developmentally. Julia Feltus from the Rebecca School in Manhattan walks us through some examples.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/2017/11/20/just-right/Caregivers: Consider joining our DIR® Parent Network for support from a like-minded community of Floortimers here: https://www.icdl.com/parents

DIRFloortime® is the only approach that provides an integrated, developmental framework within which parents and a team of professionals can tailor individualized programming to children with developmental differences taking into account the D, development, I, individual differences and the unique sensory processing profile, and R, the relationship. Link to the full blog post with links to key discussion points here: https://affectautism.com/2016/04/26/comprehensive/ Caregivers: Consider joining our DIR® Parent Network for support from a like-minded community of Floortimers at https://www.icdl.com/parents