When you're in a meeting and you see someone getting defensive, what are some tips you have for kind of defusing that or moving forward?

Yeah, I think it's such an important topic.

I often will slow down.

That is my absolute number one strategy when people are getting defensive is really to almost give everybody in the room a little bit of time to self-regulate and even hopefully notice their own defensiveness.

Now, not everybody's that self-aware, but slowing down can kind of help you that clarity come through without people, you know, of course, I don't want to be the advocate that slows everything down, but usually when I'm slowing things down, I will say, hold on one second, please.

I just want to make sure I can restate what I heard.

And so restating that concern is called mirroring, but you're using that clarity.

When there's a mismatch between data taken at school and data taken with the in-home BCBA or with the family's experiences, how do you navigate this so it doesn't become a challenge?