Affect Autism
Learn how you can implement DIR/Floortime to respectfully invite out relating, communicating, and abstract thinking through playful interactions with children who development differently.
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Wednesday Oct 24, 2018
Wednesday Oct 24, 2018
Atlanta Licensed Professional Counsellor and DIR Expert Training Leader, L. Mike Fields discusses Gaming and Floortime with us! Mike got involved with DIR/Floortime because of his autistic son’s experiences. Now, he counsels other families using a DIR approach and has more recently started gaming groups. Includes a blog post, audio podcast, and a video podcast. See the full blog post at http://affectautism.com/2018/07/30/gaming/
Tuesday Oct 23, 2018
Tuesday Oct 23, 2018
Shanker Self-Reg focuses on reframing misbehaviour as stress behaviour, focusing on recognizing the cues indicative of stress before the stress behaviour occurs in order to have a calming and regulating effect on the child. We can teach children to pause when they feel stress and take the steps to self-regulate when we internalize and learn how to take care of our own regulation as parents or educators. See the full blog post at http://affectautism.com/2018/08/27/self-reg-and-dir/
Tuesday Oct 23, 2018
Tuesday Oct 23, 2018
This week, that mental health professional, social worker and DIR Expert Training Leader, Eunice Lee, joins us to discuss how we approach supporting parents in the self-regulation process through a strengths-based coaching model that takes into account the whole family. See the blog post at http://affectautism.com/2018/09/10/self-reg-starts-with-us/
Tuesday Oct 23, 2018
Tuesday Oct 23, 2018
Podcast is from http://affectautism.com/2018/09/24/th... where you can link to full BLOG post and Key Take-Aways PDF summary