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By Daria Brown

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Developmental happens through relationships across a lifetime. Join Daria Brown as she dives into implementing a Floortime approach with neurodivergent individuals.

Episode Date
AUTISTIC Viewpoints Episode 12: Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough
Jun 15, 2026
Parent Perspectives: A Vision of Possibility
Jun 13, 2026
REPLAY: Creating Opportunities for Co-Regulatory Support
Jun 05, 2026
Book Overview of "You Are My Home: Stories of Attunement"
May 29, 2026
Parent Perspectives: Parenting Apraxia
May 22, 2026
Holding Space for Connection and Emotional Safety
May 15, 2026
REPLAY: Being Versus Doing
May 08, 2026
AUTISTIC Viewpoints Episode 11 with Autistic Self-Advocate Khylil Robinson
May 07, 2026
Episode 314 - DIR® Dialogues: Navigating Support Options for Your Family
May 01, 2026
REPLAY: Curiosity as a Driver of Connection and Interaction in Adolescence
Apr 24, 2026
Episode 313 - Leaning Into Presence and Uncertainty in Supporting Development
Apr 17, 2026
AUTISTIC Viewpoints Episode 10 Feeling Understood with AuDHD Licensed Professional Counselor, KW
Apr 13, 2026
REPLAY - Creating Opportunities in Floortime
Apr 10, 2026
Theoretical Models that Support our Attunement in Video Reflection
Apr 03, 2026
REPLAY - Gestural Development: The D, the I, and the R
Mar 27, 2026
DIRFloortime® Pioneers in Turkey
Mar 20, 2026
We Chose Play Season 1, Episode 6: Let's reflect
Mar 13, 2026
AUTISTIC Viewpoints Episode 9 with Breanne Burgess
Mar 09, 2026
Bloom Village
Mar 06, 2026
We Chose Play Season 1, Episode 5: Let's play!
Feb 27, 2026
Parent Perspectives: The Power of Relationship and Community
Feb 20, 2026
We Chose Play Season 1, Episode 4: Let's start
Feb 13, 2026
AUTISTIC Viewpoints Episode 8: A Deep Dive into the Band Nirvana
Feb 11, 2026
Movement Integrates
Feb 06, 2026
We Chose Play Season 1, Episode 3: How do we start?
Jan 30, 2026
DIR® Dialogues: Research Supporting DIRFloortime®
Jan 23, 2026
We Chose Play Season 1, Episode 2: What did we miss?
Jan 16, 2026
Centering Autism Perspectives in Canada
Jan 10, 2026
We Chose Play Season 1, Episode 1: In the beginning...
Jan 02, 2026
Parent Perspectives: Developing Resilience
Dec 26, 2025
AUTISTIC Viewpoints Episode 7: Year-End Wrap-Up
Dec 19, 2025
From Control to Connection: One Educator’s Transformation Through DIRFloortime®
Dec 19, 2025
AUTISTIC Viewpoints Episode 6 with Dr. Emile Gouws
Dec 08, 2025
Parent Perspectives: Watching Siblings Embrace Autism Together
Dec 05, 2025
AUTISTIC Viewpoints Episode 5 with Miles Kredich
Nov 24, 2025
Shared Joy and Agency in Outdoor Play
Nov 21, 2025
AUTISTIC Viewpoints: Episode 4 with Dr. Angela Kingdon
Nov 10, 2025
Parent Play Personas
Nov 07, 2025
Neurological Safety and Creating Your Happy Space
Oct 24, 2025
⁠AUTISTIC Viewpoints Episode 3: The 10 Pillars of Autistic Culture
Oct 13, 2025
Rewriting the IEP Narrative: The Affirming Village
Oct 03, 2025
AUTISTIC Viewpoints Episode 2 with Khylil Robinson
Oct 01, 2025
Autistic Moms Chatting: Moving Forward with Awareness and Action
Sep 26, 2025
Bridging the Gap Between Home and School
Sep 23, 2025
Let's Talk About Essential Floortime Dynamics
Sep 19, 2025
Building a DIR® Community in Latin America and Abroad
Sep 12, 2025
Construyendo una Comunidad DIR® en América Latina
Sep 12, 2025
AUTISTIC Viewpoints Premiere Episode
Sep 01, 2025
AUTISTIC Viewpoints Trailer
Aug 31, 2025
A Model of a Medical DIR® Clinic
Aug 29, 2025
Autistic Moms Chatting: Creating Community
Aug 26, 2025
DIR® Dialogues: Gestalt Language Processing
Aug 15, 2025
Individualizing Support Through a Caring Relationship: Supporting PDA
Aug 01, 2025
Senderos: La primera escuela acreditada en DIR® de México
Jul 18, 2025
Senderos: Mexico's First DIR®-Accredited School
Jul 18, 2025
DIR® Dialogues: An Exploration of Limit-Setting
Jul 04, 2025
Parent Perspectives: Powerful Insights From a Floortime Intensive
Jun 20, 2025
DIR® Dialogues: Becoming a Floortime Practitioner
Jun 06, 2025
Bicycle Lessons 4 All
May 23, 2025
Pre-Linguistics Are Pre-Social Abilities
May 09, 2025
Neurodiversity-Affirming Support in DIR®-Informed Music Therapy
Apr 25, 2025
Waves of Connection: Surfing the Floortime Approach
Apr 11, 2025
Olas de Conexión: Surfeando el Enfoque Floortime
Apr 11, 2025
Let’s Talk About Autism Inclusion this April
Mar 28, 2025
Perspectivas de los Padres: Reuniones de Apoyo para Padres Floortime
Mar 14, 2025
DIR® Dialogues: Floortime Around the World
Feb 28, 2025
Joyfully Together: Collaboration in the DIRFloortime® Approach
Feb 14, 2025
Following the Child’s Emotional Intent
Jan 31, 2025
Parent Perspectives: Finding and Holding on to Floortime
Jan 17, 2025
DIR® Dialogues: Parent Practitioners
Jan 03, 2025
DIR® and the Science of Hope
Dec 20, 2024
Parent Perspectives: Floortime Intensives at the DIR® Institute
Dec 06, 2024
Intensives at the DIR® Institute
Nov 22, 2024
Floortime Supports Parental Self-Efficacy
Nov 08, 2024
Diagnosing Autism in Girls and Women
Oct 25, 2024
Co-Regulation through Affective Signalling
Oct 11, 2024
Gestural Development: The D, the I, and the R
Sep 27, 2024
In-Home Floortime Coaching Supports Families
Sep 13, 2024
Bringing DIR® Into the Classroom to Accommodate Communication for All
Aug 30, 2024
Trauma through a DIR® Lens
Aug 16, 2024
Developing Through FEDC 4 into FEDC 5
Aug 02, 2024
FEDC 4: Complex Communication and Shared Problem Solving
Jul 19, 2024
Nurturing Intentionality as a Bridge to FEDC 4
Jul 05, 2024
A DIR® Lens on Sleep
Jun 21, 2024
Giant Steps Interdisciplinary Autism Centre
Jun 07, 2024
Reflective Practice in DIR®
May 24, 2024
DIR® and Medically Complex Children: Trauma-Informed Care
May 10, 2024
Advocating for Rightful Inclusion in School
Apr 26, 2024
Affect and Regulation in Middle Eastern Culture
Apr 12, 2024
If I Need Help
Mar 29, 2024
Presuming Competence
Mar 15, 2024
A Developmental Perspective on Sharing
Mar 01, 2024
Gestalt Language Processing and DIR®
Feb 16, 2024
Parent Perspectives: Navigating Our Different Support Roles
Feb 02, 2024
Parent Perspectives: Parent Self-Regulation
Jan 19, 2024
Revisiting the R: Hidden Regulators in the Development of Relationships
Jan 05, 2024
Parent Perspectives: Parents Listening to Autistic Self-Advocates
Dec 22, 2023
Regulating through Trauma
Dec 08, 2023
Autistic Masking or Impression Management?
Nov 24, 2023
Parent Perspectives: Retrospective Perspective
Nov 10, 2023
Visual Spatial Planning and Assessment (ViSPA)
Oct 27, 2023
Visualization Leads to Imagination
Oct 13, 2023
Parent Perspectives: Relationships, Play, and Growth
Sep 29, 2023
Parent Perspectives: Navigating our Health and Education Systems
Sep 15, 2023
Harnessing the Power of Narratives to Impact Development
Sep 01, 2023
(Non)Compliance does not equal (Dys)Regulation
Aug 18, 2023
A New Community-Created Resource: SLP MAPs
Aug 04, 2023
Parent Perspectives: How Do We Handle Fears and Anxiety?
Jul 28, 2023
Adapted Spiral Praxis and Movement for the Bodymind Process
Jul 14, 2023
All About Praxis: Part 2 of 2
Jun 24, 2023
All About Praxis: Part 1 of 2
Jun 09, 2023
A Floortime Approach to Fears and Phobias
May 26, 2023
Floortime Coaching for Different Parenting Styles
May 12, 2023
The Somatosensory System and Tactile Perception
Apr 28, 2023
Physical Therapy is Enhanced Using a Floortime Lens
Apr 17, 2023
Our Differences are Our Strengths
Mar 31, 2023
Autism and Medication: Part 2
Mar 18, 2023
Emotional Playgrounds Foster Emotional Well-Being
Mar 04, 2023
Curiosity as a Driver of Connection and Interaction in Adolescence
Feb 18, 2023
Empowering Ability
Feb 04, 2023
The Dynamic Process of Transitions
Jan 21, 2023
Giant Steps School in Montréal, Québec
Jan 07, 2023
Part 2: Adult Diagnosis and What it Means
Dec 17, 2022
Part 1: To Whom Should Parents Listen?
Dec 10, 2022
The Process of Parenting our Neurodivergent Children
Nov 26, 2022
Part 2: Bridging the Gap in Understanding
Nov 12, 2022
Part 1: Taking that Step on the Red Carpet
Nov 05, 2022
The Complexity of Vision and Visual Processing
Oct 15, 2022
Kinder Growth DIRFloortime® Medicaid Services
Sep 24, 2022
Unpacking Aggression
Sep 10, 2022
The Conversation
Aug 13, 2022
The Impact of Vestibular Processing on Development
Jul 23, 2022
Good Intentions Creating Unseen Stigma
Jul 09, 2022
Parents can Connect with their Children Through Musical Interactions
Jun 18, 2022
My Autism, My Story
Jun 04, 2022
Your Growth is your Child’s Growth: Strength in Relationships
May 21, 2022
The World’s First International Concert to Celebrate Neurodiversity
May 07, 2022
Gauging our Developmental Capacities: Part 2
Apr 30, 2022
Gauging our Developmental Capacities: Part 1
Apr 23, 2022
DIRFloortime® and Physical Therapy
Apr 09, 2022
Creating Opportunities for Co-Regulatory Support
Mar 26, 2022
Access and Choice in NY State for Autism Supports and Services
Mar 12, 2022
A Developmental Approach to Toileting: Part 2
Feb 26, 2022
A Developmental Approach to Toileting: Part 1
Feb 19, 2022
Gross Motor versus Fine Motor Functions
Feb 05, 2022
The Impact of Cognitive Load on Relating, Communicating, and Thinking
Jan 22, 2022
The Rubber Band Metaphor in Floortime
Jan 08, 2022
Sensorimotor Profiles in Floortime
Dec 18, 2021
Identity Exploration and Finding Your Voice
Dec 04, 2021
Going Slower to Move Faster
Nov 06, 2021
Critical Core: A Tabletop Role-Playing Game
Oct 23, 2021
KultureCity: Sensory Accessibility and Inclusion
Oct 16, 2021
DIRFloortime® as a comprehensive developmental approach
Oct 02, 2021
DIR Child & Family Counselling
Oct 02, 2021
Feeding and Floortime
Sep 25, 2021
Creative Arts Through Music and Drama
Sep 18, 2021
Constrictions in Developmental Capacities
Sep 11, 2021
Redefining the Autism Narrative: Part 2
Aug 08, 2021
Redefining the Autism Narrative: Part 1
Aug 07, 2021
Positive Development
Jul 31, 2021
Virtual Floortime Coaching for Parents
Jul 24, 2021
A Parent’s Experience of DIR/Floortime
Jul 17, 2021
DIRFloortime® Summer Camps
Jul 10, 2021
Am I Neurodivergent Like My Child?
Jul 03, 2021
Creating Opportunities in Floortime
Jun 26, 2021
Communication-Action-Affect (known as W-A-A) in Floortime
Jun 19, 2021
Examining the Experience of Autistic Students in Higher Education
Jun 12, 2021
Floortime Lifestyle
Jun 05, 2021
Alternative and Augmentative Communication (AAC) Devices
May 29, 2021
Example of a Floortime Session
May 23, 2021
The Power of Purposeful Communication
May 22, 2021
Enriching Sensory and Motor Experiences at Home
May 15, 2021
Sensory Ingredients and Dynamic Responsivity
May 08, 2021
Floortime is also Adolescent- and Adult-Led
May 01, 2021
ADHD: A VAST Topic
Apr 24, 2021
Affect Depends on Interoception
Apr 17, 2021
Neurodiversity-Affirming Care
Apr 10, 2021
Fostering Friendships Virtually Using Games
Apr 03, 2021
Approaching Pre-Academics with Floortime
Mar 27, 2021
Why Floortime is Child-Led
Mar 20, 2021
Humour Development in Autism
Mar 13, 2021
Combining DIRFloortime and Sensory Integration
Mar 06, 2021
Co-Regulation is the Driver for Sensory Integration
Feb 27, 2021
Emotion seeking and saying “No!”
Feb 20, 2021
Supporting Parents in the Process of Accepting Reality
Feb 13, 2021
A Self-Advocate’s Inspiring Journey
Feb 06, 2021
Good Autism Education is Just Good Education
Jan 30, 2021
Building Relationships in the Practice of Palliative Care using DIR/Floortime
Jan 23, 2021
The Heart of DIRFloortime®: The R and Genuine Affect
Jan 16, 2021
Facilitating Emotional and Logical Thinking: Part 3
Jan 09, 2021
Facilitating Emotional and Logical Thinking: Part 2
Jan 02, 2021
Facilitating Emotional and Logical Thinking: Part 1
Dec 26, 2020
Recognizing and Documenting Our Children’s Communication Cues
Dec 19, 2020
How do we best prepare our multidisciplinary professionals in the field of autism?
Dec 12, 2020
My Biggest Revelations from being a Floortime Parent: Part 2
Dec 06, 2020
My Biggest Revelations from being a Floortime Parent: Part 1
Nov 30, 2020
Support for Fathers of Children on the Spectrum
Nov 21, 2020
The Future is Here: Fostering Neurodivergent Students’ Media Literacy
Nov 15, 2020
Art with Heart: An Open Studio Approach to DIR/Floortime
Nov 08, 2020
Parent Support Groups
Nov 01, 2020
Navigating our therapy teams and social circles
Oct 25, 2020
Supporting Parents in DIRFloortime®
Oct 18, 2020
Threshold Community Program: DIR® for adolescents and young adults
Oct 17, 2020
Research Supporting DIRFloortime®
Oct 11, 2020
Floortime in the Pool: A Deeper Dive
Oct 04, 2020
Individual differences and Floortime in the Pool
Sep 28, 2020
Attention and Executive Function
Sep 21, 2020
Interoception: What is your child feeling inside?
Sep 13, 2020
Online Schooling and Services during a Pandemic
Sep 06, 2020
What to Expect from a Developmentally-Based Speech-Language Pathologist
Aug 31, 2020
Polyvagal Theory and Regulating our Bodily State
Aug 24, 2020
The Realization Phase
Aug 10, 2020
Meaning Making
Jul 27, 2020
Affect Autism’s Daria Brown
Mar 29, 2020
Promoting Parent Choice
Jan 20, 2020
A Closer Look at Impulsivity
Jan 06, 2020
Strategies Don’t Support Growth
Dec 09, 2019
Promoting Symbolic Thinking in Small Group Settings
Nov 25, 2019
From Ambiguous Loss to Acceptance
Nov 11, 2019
Applying the DIR® Model in a Public School
Nov 02, 2019
Incorporating DIR Goals into the Individual Education Plan (IEP)
Oct 28, 2019
Regulation Challenges through the Developmental Capacities
Oct 14, 2019
The Importance of Preverbal Affective Signalling
Sep 30, 2019
Uniquely Human
Sep 16, 2019
Floortime with Family and Small Groups
Sep 02, 2019
A Developmental Approach Overview
Aug 23, 2019
Fostering Independence
Aug 19, 2019
The Shift Towards Developmental Approaches
Aug 05, 2019
Floortime Review
Jul 22, 2019
FOODTIME: A developmental approach to picky and rigid eating
Jul 08, 2019
The P.L.A.Y. Project
Jun 24, 2019
Sensory and Developmental Poetry Workshops
Jun 10, 2019
What is Scripting All About?
May 27, 2019
A Review of Developmental Social Pragmatic Interventions
Apr 22, 2019
Focusing on Regulation
Apr 08, 2019
Remediation versus Accommodation
Mar 25, 2019
Dirty Hands Developmental Alliance
Mar 11, 2019
From Dysregulation to Intent
Feb 25, 2019
And then comes puberty…
Feb 04, 2019
Supporting the Development of Self-Regulation
Jan 21, 2019
The Foundation for Regulation
Dec 17, 2018
The new Connection Coder app
Dec 03, 2018
Floortime Tips for Behavioural Challenges at Home
Nov 05, 2018
Floortime Tips for Behavioural Challenges at School
Oct 22, 2018
Theory of Mind is Developmental
Sep 24, 2018
Self-Regulation Starts With Us
Sep 10, 2018
Self-Reg and DIRFloortime®
Aug 27, 2018
Dhamma and DIR
Aug 13, 2018
Growth and Gaming
Jul 30, 2018
Affect Is Your #1 Resource to Connect with Your Child
Jul 16, 2018
Circles of Communication in Floortime
Jul 02, 2018
Can You Teach Emotions?
Jun 18, 2018
Why Challenging and Expanding Are Essential for Human Growth
Jun 04, 2018
Being Versus Doing
May 22, 2018
Floortime Feedback
May 07, 2018
Early Social-Emotional Capacities
Apr 30, 2018
Autism and Medication
Apr 23, 2018
Floortime through Music Therapy
Apr 16, 2018
The Little Scientist: Progression of Cause-and-Effect Play
Apr 09, 2018
The Joy in Communicating
Apr 02, 2018
Can Visual Prompts About Time Promote Understanding in Floortime?
Mar 26, 2018
Floortime Follow-up
Mar 19, 2018
Sensory Lifestyle
Mar 12, 2018
Avoiding the Blame in Floortime
Mar 05, 2018
Maude Le Roux’s new Functional Developmental Autism Assessment Protocol
Feb 19, 2018
Promoting Capacities 4 and 5 with Floortime
Feb 05, 2018
How a caregiver’s regulation affects the child’s regulation
Jan 22, 2018
Floortime all day, anywhere
Dec 18, 2017
Repetition in autism therapy: A closer look
Dec 04, 2017
Facilitating Process-Oriented Learning With Developmental Capacity In Mind: The Just-Right Challenge
Nov 21, 2017
Process-Oriented Learning Inspires Relating, Communicating, and Thinking
Nov 13, 2017
Applying the DIR Model in a Public School
Oct 30, 2017
Threshold Community Program: DIR for adolescents and young adults
Oct 23, 2017
The Rebecca School: Relationships are the Foundation of Learning
Oct 02, 2017
Foundation Academics: What Is It?
Sep 18, 2017
Developmental growth spurts: What to expect
Sep 05, 2017
Floortime Analysis
Jan 31, 2017
The Building Blocks of Motor Planning
Dec 20, 2016
What Does Following the Child's Lead Really Mean?
Nov 16, 2016
Moving Up and Down Developmentally
Jul 19, 2016
Setting Appropriate Limits and Expectations by Respecting Where Your Child Is At, Developmentally
Jul 05, 2016
Self-Reflection in Floortime
Apr 12, 2016
Slowing Down and Stretching Out Interactions
Feb 17, 2016
Stumbling Blocks in Floortime at FEDC 6: Fostering Logical Thinking and Building Bridges between Ideas
Feb 09, 2016
A User’s Guide to the Developmental, Individual differences, Relationship-based (DIR®) Model
Feb 02, 2016
Stumbling Blocks in Floortime at FEDC 5: Inspiring the Expression of Ideas and Feelings
Jan 26, 2016
Stumbling Blocks in Floortime at FEDC 4: Encouraging Shared Problem-Solving
Jan 19, 2016
Stumbling Blocks in Floortime at FEDC 3: Encouraging Intentional Emotional Interactions
Jan 12, 2016
Stumbling Blocks in Floortime at FEDC 2: Fostering Engaging and Relating
Jan 05, 2016
Motor Planning and Sequencing Challenges in Children with Developmental Differences
Dec 17, 2015
Stumbling Blocks in Floortime at FEDC 1: Facilitating Shared Attention and Regulation
Dec 11, 2015
Co-Regulation in Floortime: How to Interact with a Dysregulated Child
Nov 28, 2015
The Interaction of the D, the I, and the R in the Floortime Session
Nov 19, 2015
The Nuts and Bolts of the Floortime Session
Nov 13, 2015
Starting DIRFloortime® With Your Child: Where Is Your Child Developmentally?
Nov 05, 2015
Starting DIRFloortime® With Your Child: Step 1 Is the Sensory Processing Profile
Oct 30, 2015
Floortime as a Family Approach
Oct 22, 2015
Introduction to Floortime
Oct 15, 2015
The R in the DIR® Model: Relationship-Based
Oct 09, 2015
The I in the DIR® Model: Individual Differences
Oct 02, 2015
The D in the DIR® Model: Development
Sep 25, 2015
It’s All About Affect
Sep 18, 2015