Affect Autism

This episode, Speech-Language Pathologist and DIRFloortime® Expert Training Leader Dr. Joleen Fernald answers Affect Autism member questions. If you missed Part 1 last episode, please go back and listen to her discuss her specialty, Selective Mutism and Alternative and Augmentative Communication (AAC) devices, her DIRFloortime® school, Reconnections Education Center, and her upcoming book and companion website about Selective Mutism. It’s a pleasure and privilege to have her answer parent questions from our members!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/2021/05/29/aacqs/Caregivers: Consider joining our DIR® Parent Network for support from a like-minded community of Floortimers here: https://www.icdl.com/parents

Hear an example and analysis of a Floortime session with a young girl with developmental differences, followed by some reflection, which is part of the Floortime process.Link to full blog post here: ⁠https://affectautism.com/2015/12/03/example/⁠Caregivers: Consider joining our DIR® Parent Network for support from a like-minded community of Floortimers! Learn more at https://www.icdl.com/parents

This episode I welcome back Stephanie Peters and a new guest, Courtney St. Germain. Both are occupational therapists who are DIRFloortime® Expert Training Leaders at ICDL’s DIR® Institute in New Jersey where Courtney is the Program Director. We are discussing their Continuing Ed. article Combining DIRFloortime and Sensory Integration for Children With ASD that was published in AOTA in January, the American Occupational Therapy Association‘s OT Practice magazine. The article focuses on sensory modulation and how combining DIRFloortime® and sensory integration treatment promotes social-emotional 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/2021/03/06/dir-si/Caregivers: Consider joining our DIR® Parent Network for support from a like-minded community of Floortimers here: https://www.icdl.com/parents

Occupational therapist and Developmental, Individual differences, Relationship-based (DIR®) Floortime Trainer Keith Landherr of Little Buddies Pediatric Therapy in the Vancouver suburbs joins us this episode to discuss what sensory integration is and why emotional attunement and respecting the child's sensory experience is essential to it with helpful tips for parents.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/2021/02/27/sensory-integration/Caregivers: Consider joining our DIR® Parent Network for support from a like-minded community of Floortimers here: https://www.icdl.com/parents

One of my biggest revelations from being a Floortime parent that I presented at the DIRFloortime® conference in November was that parents "accept reality". This episode, child and family psychiatrist Dr. Joshua Feder and I discuss why it is so important to emphasize that accepting reality is a process that parents need to be supported in, and the ways in which we can do this.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/2021/02/13/accepting-reality/Caregivers: Consider joining our DIR® Parent Network for support from a like-minded community of Floortimers here: https://www.icdl.com/parents