Affect Autism

In DIRFloortime®, a developmental approach to supporting individuals with developmental differences, including those with an autism diagnosis, we create those warm & nurturing learning relationships with genuine affect that are tailored to a person’s individual differences and will help them move ahead in their development by presenting the just-right playful challenges.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/2015/10/15/introduction-to-floortime/Caregivers: Consider joining our DIR® Parent Network for support from a like-minded community of Floortimers here: https://www.icdl.com/parents

The R in the DIR® model is the relationship-based part of the model. The R describes the learning relationships with caregivers, educators, therapists, peers, and others who tailor their affect-based interactions to the individual’s developmental capacities and individual differences. 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/2015/10/09/the-r/Caregivers: Consider joining our DIR® Parent Network for support from a like-minded community of Floortimers here: https://www.icdl.com/parents

This post I’ll talk about something so essential to the DIR® model: Individual differences. Dr. Stanley Greenspan’s writing is so easy to read and so intuitive. His eloquent description cannot be replicated by me, but I will give you my best interpretation.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/2015/10/01/the-i/Caregivers: Consider joining our DIR® Parent Network for support from a like-minded community of Floortimers here: https://www.icdl.com/parents

This post is about the D in the Developmental, Individual differences, Relationship-based (DIR®) model: The functional emotional developmental capacities (FEDCs) for learning. There is a lot written about childhood development but only the DIR® model describes it in terms of functional emotional developmental capacities.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/2015/09/24/the-d/Caregivers: Consider joining our DIR® Parent Network for support from a like-minded community of Floortimers here: https://www.icdl.com/parents

Human beings learn and develop within relationships, through emotional interactions with their primary caregivers, so in ⁠DIRFloortime⁠®, we can help our children with developmental differences, including autism, acquire the capacities to relate, think, and communicate by fostering consistent affective, reciprocal interactions with us. It's all about affect that orchestrates the motor, sensory, cognitive, affective, and emotional development systems.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/2015/09/17/all-about-affect/Caregivers: Consider joining our DIR® Parent Network for support from a like-minded community of Floortimers here: ⁠https://www.icdl.com/parents⁠