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

So I had these two parallel tracks going on, my summer experiences, which I then supplemented with volunteer experiences while I was in college.

And having that undergraduate degree in psycholinguistics and those experiences led me to the field of speech language pathology or communication disorders, which is what I did for my master's and doctoral degree.

And very early on I became interested in autism.

And we're talking about the early 1970s through the late 1970s.

Uh so I did my doctoral dissertation and my master's thesis on autism.

As a matter of fact, this year, 2018, is the 40th anniversary of my completing my doctoral dissertation, which which was looking at the language characteristics of autistic children and

Very much I challenged the perception of that language was meaningful, that a particular form of language known as echolalia or the tendency to repeat speech was just meaningless parroting and non functional.

And through video analysis basically I was able to demonstrate that those perceptions were all wrong.

Um and

That then led to a number of publications over the over the years on those topics.

But I then pursued my journey in academia for a number of years, working in hospitals and universities.

And fast forward for the last 20 years, I've been in private practice, still affiliated with a university I've been affiliated with for 25 years, Brown University.

And so I get out a lot into classrooms.

I spend a lot of time

time with families just yesterday.

I was in a preschool consulting to a number of kids and meeting with families.

And I also have gotten involved on a different level with families.

This year, actually in just a few weeks, we will be having our 22nd annual parent retreat weekend.

Um where we raise money and we take sixty parents who happen to have family members with autism to a beautiful country setting.

and have them learn from each other.

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