Stuart Shanker

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1,736 appearances 3 recordings 1 series first heard Oct 2022 last heard 3 Jul

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But what parents

want to know and what educators want to know is what can I do?

How can I change this child's trajectory?

Now I'll just mention one thing.

I uh I said before our

Clinic was for kids, mostly kids on the spectrum.

And what we were trying to do was shift them from maladaptive ways of dealing with stress to healthy ways.

So for example, with a kid on the spectrum, one of the most typical behaviors they demonstrate, not universal, is what's called gaze aversion.

where they won't look at their where they sort of block the interaction with their caregiver.

And I'm talking about little guys.

But gaze aversion is really a way of handling stress.

There's an awful lot of stress for a young child interacting with an adult, even if it's their caregiver.

And it's stress that comes off the eyes.

We can talk later if you'd like about what stress is.

But the point is, gaze aversion is maladaptive.

And it's maladaptive for all kinds of reasons.

The child needs those interactions to learn language, to learn

how to deal with their own stress.

But they also need those interactions because the nature designed us.

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