Barry Prizant
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first heard Mar 2018
last heard Mar 2018
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So maybe that child, for example, needs more breaks, or maybe that child needs a different way of being taught rather than through lecture.
Maybe that child needs more hands-on experiential learning.
So a lot of the changes that have happened is
We try, and it's not always easy, but we try to understand from the child's perspective and where they are developmentally.
why they engage in certain patterns of behaviour that
we as parents and professionals may see as challenging or undesirable.
As opposed to just saying, well, let's set up programs to increase behaviors and reduce behaviors, which what I'm describing now is kind of more of a notion of traditional ABA or applied behavior analysis, where the focus has been traditionally, going back many years, on building behaviors and extinguishing or getting rid of behaviors without asking the deep why and
without asking what we're doing, how does this impact that child's self esteem and that child's growing sense of who they are as a human being?
Absolutely.
And you just raised another very important point.
And that is that part of not just the autism revolution, but the whole revolution in supporting families and children and other family members who may be adults is let's understand the family's priorities.
Let's understand what their perceptions are.
Now, of course, in education in the United States, you know, we have the IEP and
parents supposedly, you know, have to sign off on approving the goals and objectives and the procedures that are used, but too often that's just lip service and professionals go about doing what they're going to do anyway.
But boy, you know, unless we really view and I'm speaking as a professional now, unless I see my relationship as collaborative and as a partnership with parents, then why do I have the right to expect parents to kind of follow up on suggestions that I make if they don't value that or or
Even more if they don't value that, if they s, as you just said, if they say, Why would you want to work on facial expressions?
How does that really
You know, stack up on the priorities I have for my son.
It doesn't make any sense.
And and I think one of the difficulties in that kind of situation
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