Program

8:30 am - 8:45 am: Welcome 

Lloyd B. Minor, MD | Laura Roberts, MD, MA | Lawrence Fung, MD, PhD | 
Performance by Ryan Woodard

8:45 am - 9:30 am: Celebrating the Establishment of the Stanford Center for Neurodiversity and Human Potential

Lawrence Fung, MD, PhD, Founding Director, Stanford Center for Neurodiversity and Human Potential

9:35 am - 10:30 am: Keynote Presentation - Resilience at Scale: Building Neuroinclusive Systems in an Era of DisruptionFrom Pilot to System: Scaling Neuroinclusion Across the Employee Experience

Neil Barnett, General Manager & Chief Accessibility Officer at Microsoft

10:35 am - 11:30 am: Employment - AI in Startup Solutions for/with the Neurodiverse

Pooja Shah, CEO and Co-Founder, Mindly | Nicholas A. Burka, CTO, Preventabl | Diego Mariscal, Founder, CEO & Chief Disabled Officer, 2Gether-International 

10:35 am - 11:30 am: K-12 Education - AI as a Learning Partner: Neurodivergent Student Use and Educator Implementation

Claire E. Hughes, Professor of Gifted, Special and Twice-Exceptional Education, Cleveland State University | Courtney Oropeza M.Ed., Education Specialist, Carmel Unified School District | Maxwell Isaac Palance, Stanford Neurodiversity Summit Steering Committee MemberStanford Center for Neurodiversity and Human Potential

12:35 pm - 1:30 pm: Keynote Presentation - Designing Artificial Intelligence Programs to Support Social Communication

Dr. Lynn Koegel, Clinical Professor at Stanford Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences | Tommy Bruzzese, Software Engineer and AI Researcher at Stanford School of Medicine

12:35 pm - 1:30 pm: Employment - From Shelf to Society: An Autistic-Led Model for Corporate-Advocacy Partnership at Mass-Communication Scale (Brazil)

Guilherme De Almeida (PH.D., ED.D.), President, Autistas Brasil | Gabriel Borges, Co-founder, Ampfy Agency | Marcos Helou, Conselheiro, Grupo Piracanjuba | Luiz Claudio Lorenzo, CEO, Piracanjuba Group | Lisiane Campos, Marketing Director, Piracanjuba Group

1:35 pm - 2:30 pm: Keynote Presentation - From Voice to Power: The Journey from Consultation to Co-Creation and Shared Governance

Dr. Eva Loth, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at King’s College London

1:35 pm - 2:30 pm:  Arts - The Arts as Primary Language: Activating All Learners

Mariah Rankine-Landers, Author, Co-Founder, Educator, Artist | Min Gu, Associate Professor, California State University, Long Beach | Chiara Perry, Assistant Director, Santa Clara County Office of Education

2:40 pm - 3:35 pm: Keynote Panel: Regional Centers and Technology - The Complex Landscapes of Service Delivery

Rebecca Nanyonjo, DrPH, Executive Director, Regional Center of the East Bay | Javier Zaldivar, Executive Director, San Andreas Regional Center | Eric Zigman, Executive Director, Golden Gate Regional Center

2:40 pm - 3:35 pm: Higher Education - Innovations In Supports for Neurodivergent College Students

Kristen Gillespie-Lynch, Professor of Psychology, College of Staten Island | Lee Burdette Williams, Executive Director, College Autism Network | Charis “Kay” Rodgers, Clinical Psychology Intern, UC Davis Mind Institute | Lela Fluker, Peer Mentor, College of Staten Island

3:35 pm - 4:30 pm: 

Network for K-12 Neurodiversity Education and Advocacy (NNEA) Updates 

Stanford Neurodiversity Project - Research, Education, and Advocacy Camp for High Schoolers (SNP-REACH) Award Ceremony

Presentations from Winning SNP-REACH Project Teams

Poster Session # 2, LK 101/102

3:35 pm - 4:35 pm:  

Art - Finding One’s ‘Voice’ Through the Arts

Ryan Woodard, Musician Singer Songwriter | Travis Woodard, CEO Ryan Woodard Productions, Vice President & General Manager, Urban Tree Farm Nursery | Dan Miller, Artist, Creative Growth Art Center | Cara Miller, Sibling| Sophia Alvarez, UCB MSW Student, Creative Growth Art Center

4:35 pm - 5:30 pm:  Mental Health  - Supporting Relational Health for Autistic People through Innovation: Developmental, Relationship-Based Interventions (DRBI)

Beth Grady MD FAAP, Pediatrician, San Mateo Medical Center | Andrea Davis, PhD, Licensed Psychologist, Coalition for Developmental Approaches | Joshua D Feder, MD, Executive Medical Director, Positive Development | Jacob Juarez, Student | Brenda Juarez, Parent 

5:35 pm - 6:30 pm: Human Rights - Supporting the Communication of Nonspeakers with Dyspraxia

Rachel Kripke-Ludwig, Leader, The Other Option | Elizabeth Vosseller, Executive Director, I-ASC, International Association for Spelling as Communication | Ava Guardado, Student, Concordia University Irvine

8:30 am - 8:35 am: Welcome

Lawrence Fung, MD, PhD, Founding Director, Stanford Center for Neurodiversity and Human Potential

8:35 am - 9:30 am: Neurodiversity-Informed Culturally Equitable (NICE) Healthcare - Curriculum Development and Pilot Trial

Lawrence Fung, MD, PhD, Founding Director, Stanford Center for Neurodiversity and Human Potential

9:35 am - 10:30 am: Keynote Presentation: The Architecture of Human Possibility: What Autism Reveals

Hari Srinivasan, PhD Candidate in Neuroscience, Vanderbilt University; NSF Graduate Research Fellow, a PD Soros Fellow, NISE Fellow at Frist Center for Autism and Innovation

10:35 am - 11:30 am: Employment - Navigating employment for neurodivergent people in the world of AI

Cole Hasserjian, Program Manager, Workday | Meghan Maneval, | Sadie Gauthier, Courseware Engineer, SANS Institute | Tingting Chen, Professor, CPP Trustworthy Medical AI Lab, Cal Poly Pomona 

10:35 am - 11:30 am: K12 Education - Inclusive Classrooms in India-Voices of Practitioners for Mainstream Inclusion

Nidhi Mishra, Founder CEO, Bookosmia Publishing | Aditi Sowmyanarayan, Award-Winning Author | Deepika Mogilishetty, Chief Policy and Partnerships at EkStep Foundation | Shwetha Srivanthsan, Special Educator, Parent advocate and neurodiversity ally, Not that Different, Bookosmia | Puja Sood, Head of SEN, Candor International School

12:35 pm - 1:30 pm: Keynote Presentation - Innovations in Research with Nonspeaking Autistic People

Dr. Vikram Jaswal, Developmental Psychologist and Professor of Psychology at the University of Virginia

12:35 pm - 1:30 pm: Employment - Entrepreneurship 101

Cathy Schwallie Farmer, Advocate/Angel Investor/Adjunct Faculty, Autism Angels Group & UC Berkeley | Anshu Bansal, General Partner, Acadia Venture Partners

1:35 pm - 2:30 pm: K12 Education - Reframing Dyslexia as a Hyper-Ability

Gil Gershoni, Creative Director & Co-Founder, Gershoni Creative & Dyslexic Design Thinking | Jeffrey Conger, Professor of Graphic Design, Montana State University | Nicole Ofiesh, Ph.D., Cognitive behavioral scientist and entrepreneur, Brain Explained | Meghan S. Buchanan, Neurodivergent Aerospace Engineer, Adventure Athlete, Author, Founder & CEO of GGRIT 

1:35 pm - 2:30 pm: Employment - Preparing Neurodivergent Artists for the Future of Decentralized Creative Work

Ginny Erxleben, EDD, Director, CLU Transitions | Joanna Cain, EDD, LMFT, Soft Skills Supervisor, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist | Dee Prescott, Consultant -Brainstorm Productions | Elizabeth Garcia-Moya, Director of Community Services, Harbor Regional Center | Casey Gonzales, Soft Skills Instructor, Center for Learning Transitions | Malia Harper, Soft Skills Instructor, Brainstorm Productions 

2:40 pm - 3:35 pm: Keynote Presentation - Autistics with Power Tools: Exploring Personal Identity Over the Life Span Through Project-Based Developmental Therapy

Janet Lawson, LMFT and Co-Founder and CEO of Autistry Studios

2:40 pm - 3:35 pm: Higher Education - Rooted in Strength: Building Autistic Community and Advocacy on Campus & Beyond

Dr. Keena Melville, Director, Lucas P. Wintrode Autism Support Services, South Dakota State University | Gemma Bastian, Assistant Professor/Extension Nutrition & Health Specialist, South Dakota State University | Evan Ortlieb, Dean, College of Education and Human Sciences, South Dakota State University

4:35 pm - 5:30 pm: Mental Health - Carrying Grief in a Neurodivergent Brain: Applying the STAY Framework Through a Neuro-Affirming Lens

Dr. Heather Taylor, PsyD., Licensed Psychologist, Grief is the New Normal Psychological Services | Hannah Allen, LMHC, ADHD-CCSP, Founder, Consultant, Allen Therapeutics, LLC | Dr. Tessa Smith, PsyD., Clinical Psychologist, KIPP DC: Public Charter Schools

4:35 pm - 5:30 pm: Arts - Unscripted Brilliance: Improvisation as a Pathway to Connection for Neurodiverse Individuals

Amy Cushner, Connection Architect, Off Script Society | Jeff Swearingen, Improvisation Architect, Off Script Society | Nadia Kennedy, Improvisation Team, Off Script Society | Doak Rapp, Improvisation Team, Off Script Society 

5:35 pm - 6:30 pm: Human Rights - Supporting People with Complex Support Needs

Tyler Fihe | Amanda Vivian, MSW, Social Worker | Diana Pastora Carson, Educator, Author, Podcaster, Go Beyond Awareness, Inc. 

5:35 pm - 6:30 pm: Mental Health - Mindfulness and Arts Based Program Services for Neurodiverse Adults

David V. Grady, MA, MFT, Former Program Manager, State Council on Developmental Disability, Central Coast (Retired) | Sylvia Yeh, Chief Strategy Officer and Executive Director, Friends of Children with Special Needs (FCSN) | Anna Wang, Co-founder and Vice President of Friends of Children with Special Needs (FCSN)

8:30 am - 8:35 am: Welcome

Lawrence Fung, MD, PhD, Founding Director, Stanford Center for Neurodiversity and Human Potential

8:35 am - 9:30 am: Community Consensus on Neurodiversity Informed Education

Lawrence Fung, MD, PhD, Founding Director, Stanford Center for Neurodiversity and Human Potential

9:35 am - 10:30 am: Keynote Presentation - Strength in Connection: Reimagining Autism Research with Black Communities at the Center

Natasha Nelson, Founder and CEO of Supernova Parenting Foundation

10:35 am - 11:30 am: Keynote Presentation -  Augmentation, Not Cures 

Dr. Vivienne Ming, Theoretical Neuroscientist, Inventor, and Author

10:35 am - 11:30 am: Higher Education - Embedding Universal Design to Advance Neuroinclusive Higher Education

Lakshmi Balasubramian. PhD, Co-Director - Stanford Cardinal Academy | Noor Syed, PhD, BCBA-D, Associate Professor, Director, Center for Autism Advocacy, Research, Education & Supports: SUNY Empire State

12:35 pm - 1:30 pm: Keynote Presentation - The A–Z of Strengths-Building Through Neurodiversity Community Innovation: From Leveraging AI to Creating Zines

Dr. Jiedi Lei, Clinical Psychologist and Clinical Research Fellow at the University of Oxford 

12:35 pm - 1:30 pm: Employment - From Process to Paradigm: How Organizational Design Unlocks Neurodivergent Strengths as Collective Intelligence

Melodie Ardouin, Founder & Author, Braining Out | Philippe Trotin, Director Inclusion & Digital Accessibility, Microsoft France | Pierre Escaich, Founder / Consultant, Neuromixity

1:35 pm - 2:30 pm: K12 Education - It Takes a Dedicated Village

Patricia Henery, M.Ed., Education Specialist, International Literacy Association, Cognition Labs Inc. | Lisa C. Melody Mackey, Ph.D., Human Development and Organizational Systems, Professional Educational Therapist | Diane Gutierrez, Co-Founder, Cognition Labs | Mario Gutierrez, Student | Jennifer Larson, Founder & Head of School My City School, Associate of Educational Therapy; Learning Disabilites Association of America

1:35 pm - 2:30 pm: Human Rights - Advancing Neurodiversity-Affirming Care Through Policy Innovation: Expanding Options, Access, and Awareness

Joshua D Feder, MD, Theoretical Neuroscientist, Inventor, and Author | Andrea Davis, PhD, Licensed Psychologist, Coalition for Developmental Approaches | Jenn Raley Miller, MPH, Researcher, CSU Sacramento | David Rivera, President and Founder, Mentoring Autistic Minds

2:40 pm - 3:35 pm: Keynote Presentation - Virtual Reality and AI Applications for Childhood Health Conditions

Dr. Skip Rizzo, Director of Medical Virtual Reality at the University of Southern California Institute for Creative Technologies

2:40 pm - 3:35 pm: Arts - The Arts: Building connections among people

Emmett Kyoshi, Artist, Entrepreneur and student | Kathy Menighan Wilson, Real Estate Broker-Salon owner-Emmett Kyoshi Art Manager |  Abbey Romeo, Autism Advocate, Social Media Influencer | Christine Romeo, Public Speaker and Autism Advocate, Social Media Influencer 

4:35 pm - 5:30 pm: Mental Health - A Community Innovation Framework for Neurodivergent Belonging, Mutual Awareness, and Systemic Change

Muzna Zafar, Author, Mindset Coach & Co-Founder, The Soul Sprout | Husna Mohammadi M.S., CCC-SLP, Speech-Language Pathologist | Aditi Garg, Executive Director, EqualXS Foundation | Praveena Gummadam, Sr. People Operations Manager | Hilary Baldi, Behavior Consultant, 

4:35 pm - 5:30 pm: Respectful Parenting of Neurodiverse Children With Complex Support Needs

David M. Perry, Journalist and Historian, University of Minnesota | Carol Greenburg, Former non-attorney advocate for disabled children’s education, TPGA | Jess Wilson, Author / Advocate  | Tiffany Hammond, Founder of Fidgets and Fries, Speaker & Consultant on Intersectionality, Diversity, and Inclusion