Barry Prizant
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328 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Mar 2018
last heard Mar 2018
Barry Prizant’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Um, I'm affiliated with the group at Brown University that's called Artists and Sciences as Partners.
And there's a uh two-semester undergraduate class, and I do a little bit of teaching in that class.
And these students are amazing, you know.
So when I ask them, Well, what are your interests?
What do you do?
a student will say something like, Well
Um I'm in cognitive neuroscience and I'm a ballerina.
Okay.
And then somebody else will say, Well, I'm a concert pianist and I'm pre med and and so right now universities are allowing
for that kind of bringing together interests with vocational interests with your personal talents and interests.
And I think relating to supporting people with disabilities, some of the most exciting work that I see now, which is also more accepted now than ever before, is, for example, the use of theater.
with students with autism.
And not just as a therapy, not just like theater or music drama therapy or music therapy, but to enhance quality of life, which has therapeutic benefits for so many people.
Yeah, first of all, it's important for me to make it clear that it's a mainstream book.
It is not a technical book or an academically oriented book.
I've published books books of that nature.
Okay.
But the big idea behind Uniquely Human is that we've really misunderstood the experience of autism for many, many years.
Even though people on the autism spectrum have been telling us what their lives are like.
We come out of decades of what I refer to as pathologizing autism, looking through the lens of deficit, looking through the lens of what is wrong here.
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