Barry Prizant

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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children · TPP 099: Barry Prizant Talks About His Book "Uniquely Human" · 13 Mar 2018 podcast

Parents very often ask me, for example around the three year old child, okay, is this three year old behavior or is this the autism I'm seeing now?

But then I hear that about teenagers and the

Prepuber years, moving through puberty.

Okay, is this just early teenage behavior or is this the autism?

And I'm a developmentalist, meaning that all of my training is in social language, cognitive and emotional development in children.

So what I the way I like to say it is

I will always look at a child through the lens of development and where they are developmentally, but then with a deep understanding of how their autism or how their neurological difference may color or shape or in some cases of offer challenges to their developmental experiences as an evolving human being.

So yeah, I mean lots of neurotypical kids are extremely difficult moving into the puberty years.

But as we know, it could be a very difficult time for many kids who have a label on the autism spectrum, which kind of exacerbates or colors that experience even more.

But uh I think some of the problems that I see in in programs for individuals with autism, actually with disabilities in general, is developmentally inappropriate programming.

So a child who may speak

a very young child, doesn't have to be even be a young child, but may speaking one or two word what we call utterances or phrases.

And everybody's always saying, say the whole sentence.

Say, I want a big chocolate cookie, please.

And the child goes, Cookie, cookie, want cookie.

In our approach, we value that the child is initiating and being spontaneous.

and clearly indicating their needs and we're not so concerned at that developmental point about is he saying a grammatical sentence?

Um but that that plays out in a lot of different ways.

A child is only able to sit for fifteen to twenty minutes at a time in a classroom.

And have a quiet body.

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