Dr. Barry Prezant
speaker
4,337 appearances
18 recordings
1 series
first heard Sep 2020
last heard 3 Jul
Dr. Barry Prezant’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
Trend
recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 1 in all, peaking in Jul 2026 with 1.
Appearances
Um over three versions of the handbook on autism.
We had seven chapters on social communication.
Um and a big influence I I should mention for me was I was recruited to develop the first communication disorders department in a pediatric psychiatric hospital in the world.
and that was a Brown University program in medicine.
So I was there for almost ten years and greatly influenced by child psychiatry and not just autism, but uh children with emotional behavioral challenges as well.
Um anyway, uniquely human came about
Because I always love to tell stories because I always love the children and the people I work with.
And uh and my wife and my son, um, and by the way, my son is fourth year probably going into psychiatry route now in medical school.
At that Duke University.
Yeah.
He's great.
Um
Yeah.
So anyway, the the uh
I I always told stories and my wife and my son said you need to write a book of uh focusing on your stories
for the mainstream public.
And that's what I did.
I was fortunate enough to get a a beautiful contract from Simon and Schuster.
Um I worked with um Tom Fields Meyer, who is a dad um of an adult autistic young man.
And I worked with him because he helped me turn some of my academic writing and storytelling into something that everybody
Showing 201–220 of 4,337 · page 11 of 217
← Previous
Next →