Maria has held a DIR Certificate since 2007 and served as a Training Leader at ICDL. She has co-coordinated numerous trainings in the DIR/Floortime Model in Argentina, both at FLENI and at UAI (Universidad Abierta Interamericana), in Buenos Aires and across the country. She provides DIR model-based interventions to children and their families and supervises and consults with professional teams working with children and adolescents with special needs. Maria has been invited to different conferences and lectures across the country to speak about the DIR Model.

Nora D’Angiola is a speech-language pathologist from Buenos Aires, Argentina. She has specialized in Psycholinsguitiscs, in language development and language disorders, in programs of Transdisciplinary Assessment and Intervention in Early Childhood and in particular, in working with infants and children with pervasive developmental disorders. She has experience as a clinician as well as a university professor and researcher, both in Argentina as in the USA, where she has resided for more than 15 years. Nora has been an attending clinician at Children’s Hospital in Buenos Aires and has been on the staff at Children’s Hospital in Los Angeles, CA, and at the Pasadena Unified School District, CA. She has been a professor at UMSA (Universidad del Museo Social Argentino) in Buenos Aires, at CSUN (California State University, Northridge, CA ) and has been a research assistant at NPI, UCLA. Nora is a member of ASHA (American Speech and hearing Association). She holds a DIR Certificate and served as a Training Leader at ICDL. She has co-coordinated numerous trainings in the DIR/Floortime Model in Argentina, both at FLENI and at UAI (Universidad Abierta Interamericana), in Buenos Aires and across the country. She provides DIR model-based interventions to children and their families and supervises and consults with professional teams working with children with special needs. She is a visiting professor at UMSA.