FEDC 4: Complex Communication and Shared Problem Solving

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The topic of this episode is the fourth Functional Emotional Developmental Capacity (FEDC 4) of the Developmental, Individual differences, and Relationship (DIR) Model based on the presentation our guests in March at the New York City DIR/Floortime conference called, The Spectrum of FEDC 4.

This Week’s Guests

Katie Shepherd is a DIR Expert and Training Leader with the International Council on Development and Learning (ICDL) and a Speech-Language Pathologist in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Sanette Louwrens is also a DIR Expert and Training Leader with ICDL and owner of Sensorium Therapy Inc., a DIR Occupational Therapy practice in Redding, California. Sanette completed the Napa/UC Davis Infant Parent Mental Health fellowship in 2022. Reflective practice development in DIR is one of her passions.

FEDC 4: Complex Communication and Shared Problem Solving

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The Spectrum of FEDC 4

I asked what made Sanette and Katie choose this topic to present at the DIR conference in March. Sanette says that Katie and her taught DIR 201- The DIRFloortime Basic Certificate Course together, and had such a wonderful synchrony, that they wanted to present together. They chose FEDC 4 because it is so complex. It’s called Complex Communication and Shared Problem Solving. It is such a shift in the child’s affective development and the development of ‘self’, Sanette says. It’s an incredibly foundational shift.

They called their presentation The Spectrum of FEDC 4 because you have an imagery of a white light lighting a prism and then radiating the colours of the rainbow. That is how FEDC 4 is. Everything is stepping up. The regulation is stepping up, the communication is getting more complex, and there’s more nuances. They were trying to capture this complexity in