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ICDL's New Board President

Emile Gouws, MEd, PhD-C

Emile Gouws, MEd, Phd-C is a specialist educator, autistic self-advocate, and researcher. He has served as a director on ICDL's Board of Directors for the past two years. He is the vice-chairperson of the National Executive committee of Autism South Africa, a representative of underrepresented groups on the Commonwealth Disabled Peoples Forum, the first and only elected as a member from Africa on the Autistic Research Committee of INSAR and....

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International Press Release

October 23, 2020

ICDL is pleased to announce that ICDL and Profectum Foundation have signed an agreement that outlines our mutual recognition and respect and our plans to move forward in a spirit of collaboration. This agreement, and the collaboration it represents, is a very positive step forward for the DIR® community. The agreement provides for cross recognition of the Profectum and ICDL DIR® certificates as valid professional Floortime® credentials. It also allows for professionals who have trained with one organization to advance place into certificate courses with the other. Details of this advance placement process will be published on each organization’s website shortly.  

ICDL and Profectum are remaining independent not-for-profit organizations that will continue to offer separate DIR® training and certificate courses . We believe that the diversity this affords is good for the DIR® community and for those seeking Floortime training and materials. However, the mutual recognition of the certificates issued and the collaborative efforts that we can engage in will help the DIR® community immensely.  

ICDL looks forward to partnering with Profectum to make Floortime® more available and accessible to children and families around the world. If you have any questions about this announcement, please email info@icdl.com.  



DIR, DIRFloortime, and Floortime are registered trademarks of ICDL, Inc. in the USA and/or other countries internationally.

International Press Release

October 25, 2020

ICDL is pleased to announce that ICDL and PLAY Project have signed an agreement that outlines our mutual recognition and respect and our plans to collaborate more closely. This agreement, and the collaboration it represents, is a very positive step forward for the DIR® community. The agreement provides for cross recognition of the PLAY Project certificate and the ICDL DIRFloortime® certificates.  Details of the cross recognition and advance placement process will be published on each organization’s website shortly.  The mutual recognition of the certificates issued and the collaborative efforts that we can now engage in will help the DIR community immensely.  Furthermore, this agreement will allow for professionals to much more quickly, and for far less money, become cross trained between PLAY Project and DIRFloortime.

ICDL looks forward to partnering with PLAY Project to make DIR-based programs and Floortime services more available and accessible to children and families around the world. If you have any questions about this announcement, please email info@icdl.com. 



DIR, DIRFloortime, and Floortime are registered trademarks of ICDL, Inc. in the USA and/or other countries internationally.

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