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
AET 2026 Annual Conference: Schedule-at-a-Glance
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| Friday, October 23, 2026 - Pre-Conference | ||
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8:30 - 11:30am PT |
SUSAN FOGELSON MEMORIAL ETHICS PANEL: Included with your conference registration is the Ethics Panel, a required continuing education component for AET membership. Join the Susan Fogelson Memorial Ethics Panel, a special pre-conference event moderated by Marion Marshall, MEd, BCET, FAET - an award-winning educator, emerita professor, acclaimed author, and Psychology Today blogger. |
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| Thursday, November 5, 2026 - Exhibitor Showcase | ||
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7:00 - 10:00am PT |
LIVE Virtual Vendor Hall - Session 1 Visit sponsors and vendors in breakout rooms. Don't forget the Vendor Hall Passport Game! Ask vendors for their code word and complete the Google Form Entry to win prizes. |
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3:00 - 6:00 pm PT |
LIVE Virtual Vendor Hall - Session 2 Visit sponsors and vendors in breakout rooms. Don't forget the Vendor Hall Passport Game! Ask vendors for their code word and complete the Google Form Entry to win prizes. |
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| Friday, November 6, 2026 - Conference Day 1 | ||
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6:30 - 7:00am PT |
Coffee & Tea Time Informal virtual gathering in the Conference Lobby to start the day. |
All-Attendee Networking Event |
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7:00 - 7:30am PT |
Welcome & President's Address |
Pamm Scribner, MEd, BCET® |
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7:30 - 8:55am PT |
KEYNOTE — PART 1: |
Leah Kuypers, MA Ed., OTR/L |
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9:05 - 10:30am PT |
KEYNOTE — PART 2: |
Leah Kuypers, MA Ed., OTR/L |
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10:45 - 11:25am PT |
AET Awards Presentation Join us to congratulate this year's recipients! |
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11:25am - 12:15pm PT |
Eat & Greet Lunch Break Join one of three breakout rooms for informal chats with colleagues. |
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12:15 - 1:45pm PT |
BREAKOUT SESSION 1 — Choose one of three: |
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Joan Green, MA, CCC-SLP |
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Kim Palmer, MA, MS |
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Jose Chavez, EdD, BCET, ADHD-CE |
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2:00 - 3:30pm PT |
BREAKOUT SESSION 2 — Choose one of three: |
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Allison Mages |
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Cristina Post, EdM, ET/P |
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Lizzett Cuervo-Losas, MA Ed, Certified TOSD |
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3:30 - 4:30pm PT |
Happy Hour & Networking Pour yourself a drink and join us for an informal wind-down in the Conference Lobby. Student/Associate breakout room available. |
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| Saturday, November 7, 2026 - Conference Day 2 | ||
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7:00 - 7:30am PT |
Coffee & Tea Time Informal virtual gathering in the Conference Lobby. Student/Associate breakout room available. |
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7:30 - 9:00am PT |
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Amy Anderson, MEd |
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Jess Durrett-Hansher, MEd, ET/P |
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Ellen Chestnut, JD |
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9:15 - 10:45am PT |
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Amanda Lepore, MS, ET/P |
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Emily Figueroa, MEd |
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Amy Brummel, SLPD, CCC-SLP/L, BCS-CL |
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10:45 - 11:30am PT |
Eat & Greet Join one of three breakout rooms for informal chats with colleagues. |
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11:30am - 1:00pm PT |
BREAKOUT SESSION 3 — Choose one of three: |
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Elizabeth Sautter, MA, CCC-SLP |
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Ashley Brien, PhD, CCC-SLP |
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Caroline Towery, MEd, BCET |
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1:15 - 3:40pm PT |
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3:30 - 4:00pm PT |
Happy Hour & Wrap Up Pour yourself a drink and join us for an informal wind-down in the Conference Lobby. |
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| Sunday, November 8, 2026 - Conference Day 3 | ||
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7:00 - 7:30am PT |
Coffee & Tea Time Informal virtual gathering in the Conference Lobby. Student/Associate breakout room available. |
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7:30 - 9:00am PT |
BREAKOUT SESSION — Choose one of four: |
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David Palmer, EdD |
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Diane Montgomery, PhD, ET/P |
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Charles A. Ahern, PhD |
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9:15 - 10:45am PT |
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10:45 - 11:15am PT |
Conference Wrap-Up Networking Join us for an informal wind-down in the Conference Lobby. See you next year! |
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| Pre-Recorded, Asynchronous Sessions | ||
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Listening Is Not a Behavior You Can See: A Neurodiversity-Affirming Approach (SE-18) |
Elizabeth Sautter, MA, CCC-SLP |
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Regulation Before Education: Accessing the Learning Brain Through CALM (EF/ES-16) |
David Palmer, EdD |
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48th Annual AET Conference!
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