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DIR®/Floortime ™ Newsletter

 

  • June 2008
    • From the Editors: What an Extraordinary Time This Is! (By Jo Raphael, MSW, BCD & Lisa deFaria, LCSW, BCD)
    • Announcing: GLIMPSE (By Natasha Labbe & Lori Jeanne Peloquin)
    • Related News:  DIR Summer '08 Programs & Day Camps
    • Related Events: Regional & International DIR/Floortime Conferences
    • For Parents by Parent: Resources, Insights, and Thoughts Generated by Parents
    • Closing Circles: Thinking About Your Child's Health: Consideration for the Child With Special Needs (By Diane Cullinane

Best Practices Newsletter, 1999 - 2006

  • Volume 7,No.2, 2006: A marker of growth, development and change for most children is toilet training. We have devoted this issue to perspectives from the different disciplines on how to go successfully go through this transition.
    • Considerations for Toilet Training (by Lisa De Faria, MSW, LCSW)
    • Toilet Training - Suggestions for the Child with Challenges (By Beth Osten, OTR/L)
    • Tolet Training - The Process (By Lois Gold, OTR/L)
  • Volume 7, No. 1, 2006: This volume has exciting articles on utilizing DIR® on the playground from educational and from Speech Language Pathology perspective.  There is also an article describing a DIR® Parent Child Workshop in Chicago and an article written by one of the workshop participants.  We close with a lovely poem contributed by a child raised with the DIR® approach.
    • DIR® on the Playground: A Pragmatic Approach (By Michele Ricamato, CCC/SLP)
    • DIR® on the School Playground (By Michele Havens, Ed.D., Nanette Tankeko, MA)
    • The Parent Workshop (By Molly Romer Witten, Ph.D.)
    • Building relationships in a Parent Child Workshop: A Parent's View
    • The Two Who Never Gave Up: A Poem (By Jacob, 15 years old)
  • Volume 6, No. 3 & 4, 2006: In this issue, speech language pathologists, Diane Lewis and Debbie Morettini discuss in their articles how to think about feeding issues, emphasizing that feeding issues rarely occur in isolation from other sensory and/or relational issues.  In her article on how to begin and actually engage in Floortime, Lisa De Faria, MSW, helps us understand how to organize our observations to help individualize our approach to the needs of each child.  In another article a parent speaks eloquently about her experiences helping her child, using the philosophy and strategies of DIR®/Floortime.
    • Feeding Intervention (By Diane Lewis, MA, CCC-SLP)
    • The "Good Eater" (By Debbie Morettini, MA, CCC-SLP)
    • First Steps First: Getting Started with Floortime™(By Lisa De Faria, LCSW)
    • The Discovery (By a Parent)
  • Volume 6, No. 1 & 2, 2006: In this issue, Kaja Weeks beautifully describes how her experience of mentorship and reflective practice supported her mastery of the DIR® model. Paul informs us of the process he and his community have undertaken in order to bring DIR® services to their locale.  Two articles in this issue highlight one of the features of the just published ICDL Diagnostic Manual for Infancy and early Childhood (DMIC). One is by Sima Gerber, Ph.D., and Beth Osten, Occupational Therapist. 
    • Trans-Disciplinary Immersion: A View From DIR® Mentorship (By Kaja Weekes)
    • The DMIC: SLP Perspective (By Sima Gerber, Ph.D., CCC)
    • The Multi-Axial Classification Approach: An Overview of Regulatory-Sensory Processing Disorders (By Beth Osten, MS, OTR/L)
    • New Floortime School (By a Parent)

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  • ICDL Newsletter, Volume 5, No. 4 April 2005 pdf version
  • ICDL Newsletter, Volume 5, No. 3 November 2004 pdf version
  • ICDL Newsletter, Volume 5, No. 2 September 2004 pdf version
  • ICDL Newsletter, Volume 5, No. 1 2004 pdf version
  • ICDL Newsletter, Volume 4, No. 4 Winter 2004 pdf version
  • ICDL Newsletter, Volume 4, No. 3 Autumn 2003 pdf version
  • ICDL Newsletter, Volume 4, No. 2 Summer 2003 pdf version
  • ICDL Newsletter, Volume 4, No. 1 July 2003 pdf version
  • ICDL Newsletter, Volume 3, No. 4 Winter 2003 pdf version
  • ICDL Newsletter, Volume 3, No. 3 December 2002 pdf version
  • ICDL Newsletter, Volume 3, No. 2 August 2002 pdf version
  • ICDL Newsletter, Volume 3, No. 1 March 2002 pdf version
  • ICDL Newsletter, Volume 2, No. 4 February 2002 pdf version
  • ICDL Newsletter, Volume 2, No. 3 October 2001 pdf version
  • ICDL Newsletter, Volume 2, No. 2 July 2001 pdf version
  • ICDL Newsletter, Volume 2, No. 1 March 2001 pdf version
  • ICDL Newsletter, Volume 1, No. 3 September 2000
  • ICDL Newsletter, Volume 1, No. 2 March 2000
  • ICDL Newsletter, Volume 1, No. 1 July 1999