Past Events

From Co-Regulation to Self-Regulation: A clinical framework for SLPs

ASHA Convention: Orlando, Florida, USA, November, 2019.

Setting the stage for communication to flourish: The role of regulation.

Key-Note Speaker: The International Scientific-Practical Conference: Innovations in Autism Interventions, Moscow, Russia. April, 2019. Learn More

Does the Play Environment Impact Parents’ Communication or Style of Interaction with their Autistic Child??

Symposium on Research in Child Language Disorders: Madison, Wisconson, June 2019.

Do Play Contexts Impact the Engagement States of Children with Autism?

INSAR Annual Conference: Montreal, Canada, May 2019.

Trampolines and Crash Mats or Pretend Food and Toy Cars? How Play Contexts Impact Language Production in Children with ASD

Oral presentation at the Symposium on Research in Child Language Disorders. June, 2017. Madison, WI.

Better Together: Strategies for Supporting Self-Regulation and Communication

Keynote for the Hamilton Wentworth Catholic District School Board SLP department bi-annual conference. May, 2017. Hamilton, Ontario.

Overview of the DIR® Model and DIRFloortime® Principles, London, ONT

DIR/Floortime 101 with UWO SLP Graduate Students – December 3rd & 4th, 2016

Examining the ‘D’ in DIR/Floortime – Changwon, South Korea.

Functional Emotional Developmental Capacities what are they and how can I support them? – November 6th, 2016

Examining the ‘D’ in DIR/Floortime – Seoul, South Korea

Functional Emotional Developmental Capacities what are they and how can I support them? – November 5th, 2016

As we speak: Preliminary results from the MEHRIT study on how a parent coaching treatment model rooted in DIR and Self-Reg impacts how parents communicate with their child.

The MEHRIT Centre self-regulation symposium. Peterborough, ON. July, 2016

Symposium for Research on Child Language Development 2016 - Madison, WI

Oral Presentation – Does developmental social pragmatic intervention for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder influence parent language use? June 11th, 2016

ICDL Annual Conference 2016 - Orlando, FLA

Recent Research Session – September 24th, 2016

Making the connection

Self-Regulation Communication & Language – May 30th 2016

Annual Scientific Symposium XVII of communicative disorders - Saudi Arabia

Supporting Parents as Partners in Communication – April 16th, 17th 2016

We are pleased to welcome you to our seminar at the annual scientific session of the seventh communicative disorders where it will be the main topic of the symposium is to support parents as partners in communication. On the first day of the seminar there will be an opening speech on the theme at nine in the morning to the professor Amanda Binns, Specialist Speech Language Pathologist of Toronto, Canada, who is a doctoral student at Western University, and a certified expert DIR therapist & trainer. Amanda is also a university lecturer at Fielding University in the USA.