Barry M Prizant

Dr. Barry Prizant has more than 40 years' experience as a scholar, researcher and international consultant for individuals with autism. He is an Adjunct Professor, Brown University, and Director of Childhood Communication Services, a private practice. Formerly, he was an Associate Professor of Child Psychiatry in the Brown University School of Medicine.

Barry is co-author of four books, including The SCERTS Model: A comprehensive educational approach for children with ASD (2006). He has published more than 130 articles and chapters, presented more than 700 seminars and keynote addresses internationally, for 20 years, he has co-facilitated an annual weekend retreat for parents of autistic children.

Barry 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 the Global and Regional Asperger's Syndrome Partnership. Barry's latest book, Uniquely Human: A Different Way of Seeing Autism, has received critical acclaim from renowned researchers, practitioners, parents and autistic people.