Bar­ry M. Prizant is among the world’s lead­ing author­i­ties on autism and relat­ed dis­abil­i­ties with more than forty years of expe­ri­ence as a schol­ar, researcher, and inter­na­tion­al con­sul­tant. He is an adjunct pro­fes­sor at Brown Uni­ver­si­ty and serves on the Board of Trustees and the Inclu­sion Com­mit­tee of Tem­ple Emanu-El in Prov­i­dence, RI, help­ing cre­ate Shab­bat ser­vices for chil­dren and fam­i­ly mem­bers with devel­op­men­tal challenges.