Barry Prizant
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328 appearances
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first heard Mar 2018
last heard Mar 2018
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And that's that's very valuable.
So validating.
Yeah, and and you know, one point I really tried to get across is that, you know, whether it be a parent or a teacher or a therapist, 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.
How do they feel about themselves?
And how could you feel good about yourself if people are always trying to change you for who you are?
Yeah, but especially in autism, but this has occurred with other kids with different kind of label disabilities.
Especially in the United States, approaches a number of years going back to the sixties and seventies were about, well, let's make lists of desirable behaviors the child demonstrates and let's build upon those and let's look at the undesirable behaviors and get rid of those.
Okay.
Um and of course, as you said, what is often attention getting is behavior that may be harmful to others or harmful to the child, maybe disruptive in the environment, maybe distracting to other people, maybe unconventional, looking very different, so that child doesn't look like a typical child.
But what we have failed to do in the past is really look deeply, and what I refer to as the deep why.
From the child's perspective.
Why is that child getting out of his seat in the classroom and bolting out of the classroom?
When we expect him to sit for forty five minutes and pay attention to the teacher.
Is it that he's being and this is a term that's very popular now, oppositional or noncompliant, or is it that due to his neurology, he's incapable?
Of
sitting quietly for that period of time.
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