Barry has more than 50 years experience as a clinical scholar, consultant, researcher and program consultant to children and older persons on the autism spectrum and related neurodevelopmental conditions and their families. He is a Speech-Language Pathologist and holds the Certificate of Clinical Competence (CCC-SLP) of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. Barry has served as a tenured Professor of Communication Disorders at both Southern Illinois University and Emerson College, Boston, where he developed specialty tracks in language disabilities and autism in the Master’s and Doctoral programs. In 1984, he also founded and was the Director of the Communication Disorders Department at Bradley Hospital, the first such department in a pediatric psychiatric setting internationally, with an Associate Professor Appointment in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in the Brown University Program in Medicine. He then completed an Advanced Post-Doctoral Fellow in Early Intervention at University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Since 1998, Barry has been Director of Childhood Communication Services, a private practice, and he rejoined the faculty at Brown University, where he served as an Adjunct Professor in the Center for the Study of Human Development and the Artists and Scientists as Partners Group. Since 2022, he has served as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Rhode Island in the Communicative Disorders Department.  

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