Behavior Is Communication. What's Your Autistic Child Telling You? | Miami Autism Dad

Miami Autism Dad Victor Antunez interviews Abby Peskin, Ph.D., Licensed Clinical Psychologist at University of Miami PCIT 305, about the shortcoming she kept seeing in therapy for young children: parents learn strategy after strategy in an office, then can't use any of it in the moment their child needs them. PCIT, Parent-Child Interaction Therapy, flips the model. Instead of a therapist treating the child directly, the parent delivers the intervention, coached live as they use the strategies with their own child. Abby lays out the 2 principles that guide the work: behavior is communication, and children want to do well when they can. For families in Miami-Dade, PCIT 305 is free, funded by The Children's Trust. Her message is simple: your child's behavior is a deeper need waiting to be translated, and when the environment sets them up for success, they succeed.



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Connect with Abby at University of Miami PCIT 305 (services also available in Spanish): https://umiamihealth.org/en/treatments-and-services/pediatrics/developmental-and-behavioral-health-(pediatrics)/mailman-center-services/parent-child-interaction-therapy