Barry Prizant
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328 appearances
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first heard Mar 2018
last heard Mar 2018
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So often what we have done has been done with all good intentions.
It's totally understandable why a parent may want their child not to engage in behaviors that look different or that are attention getting in public or that may be stigmatizing for a child.
But the bottom line is what are we communicating to a child if we're always saying, stop that, don't do that?
Always correcting.
And so there's a lot of attention now being paid to the impact of what we do on a child and eventually an adult's self-esteem.
Thank you so much, Debbie.
It's a pleasure to be here.
Yeah, well my my story goes way back and I and I love to share um kind of the early roots because sometimes younger professionals or even people who
Do not work in the field of supporting and understanding people with disabilities that sometimes very early experiences are so formative.
So I actually started as a teenager working in summer camps, in residential summer camps, mostly in the Northeast.
And these were summer camps for children and adults with various label disabilities, ranging from autism to a
emotional behavioral disorders to learning disabilities, to what we now refer to as intellectual disabilities.
And the those experiences were so important for me because I was a caregiver.
living with people and I was responsible for their welfare, for making sure they had a good time and that they were safe.
So from very early on I had the experience of what many families, as they often say, live twenty-four-seven.
And that was before I got into academia.
Um, so I was doing that for a number of years, and then I was academically in college, I was very interested in language and language development.
Actually, I was a failed German major and then became a psycholinguistics major, which was a new field at that time.
So just very quickly, psycholinguistics has to do with understanding the relationships between a person's
Thought and how they organize their understanding of the world, and how they can express that through language and other ways of communicating.
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