Barry Prizant, PhD, CCC-SLP

Adjunct Professor, Communicative Disorders, University of Rhode Island

Director of Childhood Communication Services, private practice
Dr. Barry M. Prizant brings over 50 years of experience as a clinician, researcher, and international consultant, and is widely recognized as a leading scholar on autism and neurodiversity as well as an innovator of respectful, person-and-family-centered supports. He is Adjunct Professor of Communicative Disorders at the University of Rhode Island and Director of Childhood Communication Services, a private practice. Over the course of his career, he has served as Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Brown University’s medical school and as a tenured professor at Emerson College.
Dr. Prizant has authored five books and more than 150 articles and chapters, and co-authored The SCERTS Model: A Comprehensive Educational Approach, (Social Communication, Emotional Regulation, and Transactional Support) now published in seven languages and implemented in more than a dozen countries. A two-time featured presenter at the United Nations World Autism Awareness Day (2013, 2017), he has delivered 1,000+ talks at major universities and medical centers across the U.S. and in over 25 countries.
His 2022 expanded edition of Uniquely Human: A Different Way of Seeing Autism, is an international best-seller available in 26 languages. It was ranked by Book Authority as #1 on its list of the “100 best books on autism of all time.” Dr. Prizant co-produces and co-hosts Uniquely Human: The Podcast with Dave Finch—ranked #1 among the top neurodiversity podcasts—and is currently at work on a new book on neurodiversity.