Nurturing Intentionality as a Bridge to FEDC 4

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This Week’s Topic

This episode we are discussing intentionality in the third Functional Emotional Developmental Capacity (FEDC 3), which is Intentionality and Two-Way Communication in the Developmental, Individual differences, and Relationship (DIR) Model, and moving from FEDC 3 into FEDC 4, Complex Communication and Shared Problem Solving. Our guests presented on Intentionality and FEDC 3 at the ICDL DIR Conference in March and you can watch that presentation here as an introduction to this podcast episode.

This Week’s Guests

I have two first-time guests today. Andrea Snyder is an Occupational Therapist and DIR Expert and Training Leader in Colorado Springs who sees clients in the home setting and teaches certificate courses for the International Council on Development and Learning. Naomi Wong is a Speech-Language Pathologist and DIR Expert and Training Leader in Singapore who owns a clinic called Speech Therapy Adventures helping parents and children navigate their developmental adventure together.

Nurturing Intentionality as a Bridge to FEDC 4

by Affect Autism

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D = Developmental I = Individual differences R = Relationship-based

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The Early Social-Emotional Capacities

To begin, I asked Naomi to describe the first three Functional Emotional Developmental Capacities in the DIR Model, even starting with what Colette Ryan called ‘FEDC 0’ last episode, or that ‘felt’ sense of safety. Naomi shared that in the first FEDC, Self-Regulation and Interest in the World, we transit from a sensory realm into an emotional realm and experience sensory integration. If you can integrate your senses well, she explains, you then have the emotional availability to attend to someone and communicate and interact with them. 

In the 2nd FEDC, Engaging and Relati