Ep. 119 From Behavior Therapist to NeuroAffirming SLP: Lessons that Shifted My Practice
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Welcome back to the NeuroFirm show, everyone. This is the first show.
Since our NeuroFirm X event, which was our one-day event, we had over 25,000 people register for the if this event. We quite literally broke the internet. There were so many people trying to access our workbooks and guidebooks and things we were giving away, that the links were breaking because there were just so many people all at once, and it was the most hectic behind the scenes. incredible experience ever and thank you to all of you who were there live and we've gotten so much incredible feedback and people asking when the next one is and all these questions. So it was such an incredible event. So I'm excited to be back here to kick off our summer here together.
Why did the host feel something was missing in behavior‑focused therapy?
And today something that I really wanted to talk about was this journey that I went on from being a behavioral therapist to where I am now. And I'm gonna share a story with you of when I was a behavioral therapist and what I really felt like was missing. from this little girl's treatment plan that I think would have made a world of difference. But you know what they say about hindsight? It is 2020. And of course this just isn't stuff I knew at the time. So I did not know this stuff at the time. But looking back on this experience, which was Uh, how many years ago? I don't know, thirteen, fourteen, close to fifteen years. Maybe more. God, am I that old? About fifteen years ago, right? So this is everything that I've learned over the past fifteen years, then looking back at the story and thinking, here's what we could have done differently.
And I think this is gonna help a lot of you out a lot because you probably have so many students you're working with or your own kids or clients who are in very similar situations to this. So I'm gonna tell you exactly what I think was missing and this is what we can do to take our approaches from a compliance-based approach to an approach that is neurodiversity affirming. So Um, let's go ahead and dive into it. If you've read my book I have it in front of me. Ready, Set Connect, I tell this story in the book. So it's kind of fun because I recently sat down, I thought more about this little girl, I reread this story, and this is what happened as I was reflecting on it, and that's what led me to this conversation we're having today.
Because even since writing this book, it's it's been nice to be able to learn more and get more reflections out. So if Something that you really need in your life is more information on how to move away from these compliance based approaches and how to have truly neuroaffirming therapy, how to have regulation s informed therapy than Go grab this book. We're doing a special because it is the two year anniversary of my book right now. So for this two year anniversary, for this week only, we are giving away some awesome bonuses that you get when you purchase the book. So you will get The audio book, which is narrated by me. You will get the guidebook. It's called the Ready Set Connect Guide book that you can use to implement everything as you're learning and you're reading along.
And then you will also get this week only our Ready Set Connect book club kit, which is basically a kit you can use if you want to take this, make it a book club. We've had a lot of people do that over the last couple of years, which has been really, really cool. And you also get my communication accelerator, which has some of my best tips for sensory and communication. So
How did the host’s early floor‑time training shape their view of connection‑centered therapy?
A lot of the stuff we're talking about today, it's coming from here. So if you haven't read the book yet, would love for you to grab it for this two year anniversary of the book. Okay, so just to set the context here, when I before I went to graduate school, I was an SLP assistant and it was during that time that I was trained in floor time therapy. Okay, so many of you are familiar in floor time therapy, but essentially it is very much connection centered. It's all about building a relationship. And that was all I knew because that was my first time working with autistic children.
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Chapters
5 chapters
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:08–0:58
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Why did the host feel something was missing in behavior‑focused therapy?
0:58–3:40
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How did the host’s early floor‑time training shape their view of connection‑centered therapy?
3:40–8:53
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What was the “weather” data‑sheet exercise and why did it feel inadequate?
8:53–15:06
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How did the one‑on‑one swing and music sessions improve regulation and learning?
15:06–24:41
Speakers
1 identifiedMore from The NeuroAffirm Podcast
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