{"id":10275,"date":"2025-04-22T08:35:49","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T12:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cmd\/?p=10275"},"modified":"2025-05-12T09:14:13","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T13:14:13","slug":"barry-prizant-weighs-in-on-autism-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cmd\/2025\/04\/22\/barry-prizant-weighs-in-on-autism-controversy\/","title":{"rendered":"Barry Prizant weighs in on autism controversy."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Dr. Barry Prizant, Adjunct Faculty of the CMD Department at URI and an expert on autism, was interviewed by ABC News regarding HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy&#8217;s recent statements about autism and its impact. Full articles are available here:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/urldefense.com\/v3\/__https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Health\/rfk-jr-lays-new-studies-autism-shuts-diagnoses\/story?id=120882735__;!!Jh1S!m5f-ptkE1tYa3dljprkdUWLHoFXXcyPwYz9Qu1vIIgz2IeraILdSUjYsJF9JBfWZ140LxtvVqSzexua3PQ$\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Health\/rfk-jr-lays-new-studies-autism-shuts-diagnoses\/story?id=120882735<\/a>\u00a0and here:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/urldefense.com\/v3\/__https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/rfk-jr-goal-study-autism-september-realistic\/story?id=120862155__;!!Jh1S!m5f-ptkE1tYa3dljprkdUWLHoFXXcyPwYz9Qu1vIIgz2IeraILdSUjYsJF9JBfWZ140LxtvVqSwdaHHvaQ$\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/rfk-jr-goal-study-autism-september-realistic\/story?id=120862155<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/05\/10\/opinion\/severe-autism-parents.html?unlocked_article_code=1.GE8.Wqsw.6xzUVNZqEuHW&amp;smid=nytcore-ios-share&amp;referringSource=articleShare&amp;sgrp=p&amp;pvid=E72F8F4B-F476-4D86-AAA6-8D52CB54A7A0\">Dr. Prizant&#8217;s letter to the New York Times was also published recently.<\/a><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Barry Prizant, Adjunct Faculty of the CMD Department at URI and an expert on autism, was interviewed by ABC News regarding HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy&#8217;s recent statements about autism and its impact. Full articles are available here:\u00a0https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Health\/rfk-jr-lays-new-studies-autism-shuts-diagnoses\/story?id=120882735\u00a0and here:\u00a0https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/rfk-jr-goal-study-autism-september-realistic\/story?id=120862155. Dr. Prizant&#8217;s letter to the New York Times was also published recently.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2097,"featured_media":1310,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cmd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cmd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cmd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cmd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2097"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cmd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10275"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cmd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10290,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cmd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10275\/revisions\/10290"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cmd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cmd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cmd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cmd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}