Emotional Regulation Autism Terri Duncan

EPISODE 118
Why Emotional Regulation Might Mean Everything:
A Conversation with Terri Duncan, CCC-SLP

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Show Notes

Emotional regulation is being embraced by parents, neurodivergent individuals educators and therapists as an important concept underlying respectful and developmentally informed practices for supporting autistic and neurodivergent individuals. As founder and Director of Children’s Autism Services of Edmonton (Alberta, Canada), Terri Duncan, CCC-SLP has prioritized emotional regulation as foundational to services provided to children and families. From these experiences, she has recently published a book focused on implementing services with emotional regulation as a priority. Terri discusses with Barry and Dave how emotional regulation has become so central to her practice, and to her center.

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TERRI DUNCAN

Terri Duncan is the founder and Executive Director of Children’s Autism Services of Edmonton (city in western Canada with a population of over 1 million people). She is a speech language pathologist and has worked with autistic children and others with a broad range of developmental delays for more than 20 years. Terri has her B.A. in Psychology and Linguistics from the University of Ottawa and a Master’s Degree in Speech Language Pathology from the University of Alberta. Her interest in working with children and neurodivergent individuals began when she worked as an aide with a four-year-old autistic boy in a family’s home. Since that time she has been fascinated by the complexity of the brain and the resilience of families dealing with the challenges they face on a daily basis. Terri founded Children’s Autism Services of Edmonton in 2004, and since that time, the organization has grown to be the largest service provider in Western Canada, if not also one of the most respected in the world. Her latest work, just published last week by Neurodiversity Press, is “Why Emotional Regulation Might Mean…EVERYTHING: Reframing Behaviour”

…and Continue the Discussion

Do you have a book or podcast club? If so, you may use this discussion guide to facilitate a conversation about this episode.

  1. How did Terri’s background and journey lead her to reject compliance-based behavioral approaches and embrace the philosophy and practices underlying an emotional regulation approach? How would you describe your approach, and what influences have shaped it ?

 

  1. How does Terri define emotional regulation, and why does she believe it might be “everything”. Do you agree?

 

  1. What does Terri say to professionals, or educational/treatment organizations that have not embraced an emotional regulation focus in their work? Do you find yourself in similar circumstances, and what do you do?

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Music

Matt Savage, courtesy of Savage Records

Matt Savage is an autistic jazz musician, composer, and bandleader. Matt has collaborated with jazz greats like Chick Corea, the Ellington All Stars, Chaka Khan, Wynton Marsalis, Bobby Watson, Clark Terry, Jimmy Heath, Jason Moran, Arturo O’Farrill, John Pizzarelli, Joshua Redman, Terri Lyne Carrington, Jon Faddis, Jerry Bergonzi. Donny McCaslin, and more. He has recorded more than a dozen records and graciously contributes the music for Uniquely Human.

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