Barry M. Prizant Biography

Barry M. Prizant PhD CCC-SLP is among the world’s leading expert on autism with more than forty years of experience as a scholar researcher and international consultant. He is an adjunct professor at Brown University and coauthor of The SCERTS Model: A Comprehensive Educational Approach now being implemented in more than a dozen countries. Dr. Prizant has published more than 120 articles and chapters and has received many awards including the 2014 Honors of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association 2005 Princeton University-Eden Foundation Career Award in Autism and the 2013 “Divine Neurotypical Award” of GRASP.
Since 1998 Barry has been Director of Childhood Communication Services (CCS) a private practice and at Brown University he has served as an Adjunct Professor in the Center for the Study of Human Development and currently in the Artists and Scientists as Partners Group. He has published more than 120 articles and chapters on autism childhood communication disorders and child development has given more than 700 seminars and workshops in 49 states and 20 countries. Barry has served on the Editorial Board of six scholarly journals and wrote a regular column for Autism Spectrum Quarterly for five years.
Barry is the co-author of the book Autism spectrum disorders: A developmental transactional perspective (2000) the assessment instruments The Communication and Symbolic Behavior (CSBS) Scales (1993) and The CSBS-Developmental Profile (2002) (with Dr. Amy Wetherby). Other research and clinical interests include early identification of young children with disabilities impact of childhood disability on the family family-centered support and treatment understanding language and communicative characteristics of children with social-communicative disabilities including ASD and the relationships between communication disorders and emotional/behavioral disorders in children. His latest book (with Tom Fields-Meyer) written for a mainstream audience is Uniquely Human: A Different Way of Seeing Autism published in 2015 by Simon & Schuster.

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