An illustration of Brian Boyd — Illustration by Richard A. Chance

Brian Boyd, classroom-based interventions and the importance of representation

The leader of the Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute talks about what drew him into the autism field, and his departure from — and return to — the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

By Brady Huggett

1 October 2023 | 1 min read

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Brian Boyd is William C. Friday Distinguished Professor of Education at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and interim director of the Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute. In this episode of “Synaptic,” he discusses how his time as a counselor at a summer camp for autistic people cemented his interest in autism, how writing a statement about the Black Lives Matter movement for the International Society for Autism Research prompted personal introspection, and his youth in a small Virginia town.

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