Schedule for the Week

Monday, July 27, Summit Day 1 

Inclusion Starts With A Mindset Shift

• Through Their Lens: What Educational Leaders Teach Us About Inclusion with Dr. Sara Leggett
• From Rhetoric to Reality: Neurodiversity-Affirming Practices in Today's Schools with Justin H. Dove, EdS, NCSP, LEP
• Elevating Support: Navigating Your Child's IEP With a Neurodiversity-Affirming Lens with Breea M. Rosas
• The Deficit Trap: Shifting to Strength-Based IEP Supports with Kelsie Reed, Ph.D.
• Inside The IEP Studio: How Assumptions Shape IEP Decisions with Dr. Diana Fannon

Tuesday, July 28, Summit Day 2

Understanding Learners

• Understanding Behaviour Through a Nervous System Lens with Martha Ní Fhlatharta 
• From Behavior to Belonging: Supporting Kids Through Connection and Understanding with Laura Petix
• Supporting Nervous System Needs in the Educational Setting with Lisa Baskin Wright
• Neurodivergent Refusal: Shifting to Real Engagement with Simon Airey
• When Behavior Is Actually Overwhelm: Advocating for Regulation Without Exclusion with Dr. Destiny Huff, LPC
• A Scenic Route to the Same Destination: Understanding Gestalt Language Processing with Gráinne Carney
• Inside The IEP Studio: What Makes Meaningful Participation Possible with Dr. Diana Fannon

 Wednesday, July 29, Summit Day 3
 
Access to Learning and Participation

• Why Complex Academics Needs to Be on Your Agenda (and IEP) This Year with Dr. Vaish Sarathy
• What Access Really Looks Like: Adapting Grade Level Learning Without Lowering the Bar for Your Child with Lisa Mihalich Quinn
• Access Through Understanding: Helping Kids Learn the Language of Accommodations with Jessie Mewshaw
• Revealing Curricular Barriers That Harm Neurodivergent Students of Color with Leroy Smith
• Assistive Technology and the IEP with Courtney Burnett
• Beyond the Scores: Understanding Educational Impact, Meaningful Participation, and Connecting Assessments to Real Life with Amber Moore
• Inside the IEP Studio: Looking for Barriers Before Deficits with Dr. Diana Fannon

 Thursday, July 30, Summit Day 4 

Advocacy, Agency, & Systems

• Seeing the Student: Access, Belonging, and Student Strengths with ShaVanety Jones
• Student Centered Special Education: From Evaluation to IEP & Beyond with Briana Drimmer
• Making Referrals within the IEP Process with Colleen Ashford
• Finding Your Voice: Meaningful Parent Participation in the IEP Process with Daphne Zacky
• The Language of Low Expectations: Turning School Language Into Advocacy with Courtney Aseltine
• How Inclusion Gets Lost in Translation: What Parents Ask For and What Districts Prioritize with Lindsay Crain
• Inside The IEP Studio: What Question Could Change the Conversation? with Dr. Diana Fannon

Friday, July 31, Summit Day 5 

Relationships, Belonging, & Family Experience

• Inclusion Through a Cultural Lens: Supporting Black Autistic Students in School Communities with Maria Davis-Pierre 
• Beyond Inclusion: Why Belonging Matters Most with Leila Toigo
• Beyond Compliance: How Connection and Play Support Communication, Learning, and Belonging with Erin Forward
• Stronger Together: Relationship as the Catalyst for Unfolding Regulatory Capacity with Laura Westbrook
• Building Belonging Every Day: Inside an Inclusive Classroom with Katie Plunkett
• Inside The IEP Studio: Rethinking How We Measure Success with Dr. Diana Fannon