Barry Prizant
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328 appearances
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first heard Mar 2018
last heard Mar 2018
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What underlies all of this is our attitude.
What are the types and levels of support that a person needs to succeed as opposed to how can I get this child to do this, what I want them to do?
Yeah.
And it and it really is a new lens in a very concrete way.
So for example, I mean, autism used to be defined and some people still describe it as a behavior disorder.
It is not a behavior disorder.
It's a neurologically based developmental learning difference.
Learning disability depends upon where you are politically in using those terms.
But
In my consulting, I'll often be in a situation where somebody will say, Oh, you know, he's just being so oppositional, or he's just being so resistant, or he does that to push my buttons.
And I always go back to, and I try to do it in a very, very non-confrontational way, but I may say to that teacher or therapist who says that.
Okay, let's start from this fact.
The fact is this child has a neurologically based brain difference in how he processes and understands the world.
That we know.
Okay?
When you're saying he's being manipulative or he's just trying to get out of this task.
Those are your assumptions.
You can't go into his mind and understand what his motive is.
But what we do know is he has neurological differences that result in the way differences in the way he responds as opposed to a so-called typically developing child.
And and you know, I I people
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