Explore Today's Most Relevant Topics & Learn from Experts in these Interactive Breakout Sessions 

The 48th Annual AET Conference offers an exceptional lineup of breakout sessions designed to provide actionable strategies you can immediately implement in your educational therapy practice. 

Learn from respected experts, engage in meaningful discussions, and leave with new ideas that empower learners, strengthen families, and elevate outcomes. Check out some of the sessions you will find at the AET Annual Conference.

Neurodiversity & Learning Differences

Gain deeper insight into ADHD, autism, learning disabilities, anxiety, and demand-avoidant profiles through sessions that translate current research into meaningful practice.

• Forging a Therapeutic Alliance with Students with ADHD and Autism: Case Studies
• The Neuropsychology of Learning Disabilities and Elevated Anxiety: From Negative to Positive Interactions toward a Positive Cycle
• Listening Is Not a Behavior You Can See: A Neurodiversity-Affirming Approach
• Rethinking Resistance: Understanding and Supporting Demand-Avoidant Learners
• Neuro Constructs & Learning Profiles: Utilizing Neurodevelopmental Constructs to Understand and Support Learning and Learners
• From Stigma to Support: ADHD Conversations with First-Gen Families

Evidence-Based Assessment & Intervention

Strengthen your clinical practice with innovative approaches to assessment, literacy, mathematics, and student engagement.

• Clinical Interviewing in Math
• What Is Subitizing and Why (and How) Should We Teach It?
• Comparing Speech-to-Print and Print-to-Speech Approaches: Implications for Language-Based Literacy Interventions
• Stories That Stick: Using Picture Books to Engage Reluctant Learners
• Invisible Challenges, Visible Voices: Motivating Learners Through Student-Centered Assessment
• Beyond Conversation: Development Classroom Observation for Educational Therapists

Supporting the Whole Learner and the Whole Family

Learn strategies that foster meaningful partnerships, emotional regulation, and successful transitions across educational settings.

• Empowering the Whole Family: Partnering with Parents of Neurodivergent Learners
• The Key to Social Interactions: Elevating Social Learning & Memory in Autism through Reminiscing & Caregiver Connection
• Regulation Before Education: Accessing the Learning Brain Through CALM
• Accommodations in Higher Education: How to Support the Transition to College
• Expand Your Toolkit: Utilizing Laws Behind IEPs and 504 Plans

Innovation in Educational Therapy

Explore emerging tools and practical applications that are shaping the future of learning support.

• AI as Assistive Technology: Practical Supports for Neurodiverse Learners

Join us at the
48th Annual AET Conference!