Schedule

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

Click on the session titles below to be linked to their descriptions.

Friday, October 23, 2026 - Pre-Conference
Time: Topic: Speakers:

8:30 - 11:30am PT
9:30 - 12:30am MT
10:30am - 1:30pm CT
11:30am - 2:30pm ET

SUSAN FOGELSON MEMORIAL ETHICS PANEL:
Now what? Aligning Expectations, Communication with Outcomes

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.

Moderator:

  • Marion Marshall, MEd, BCET, FAET

Panelists:

  • Caroline Towery, M.Ed. BCET,
  • Dr. Bibi Pirayesh,
  • Frances Shefter, Esq. 

 

Thursday, November 5, 2026 - Exhibitor Showcase
Time: Topic: Speakers:

7:00 - 10:00am PT
8:00 - 11:00am MT
9:00am - 12:00pm CT
10:00am - 1:00pm ET

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.

Exhibitors

3:00 - 6:00 pm PT
4:00 - 7:00pm MT
5:00 - 8:00pm CT
6:00 - 9:00pm ET

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.

Exhibitors

 

Friday, November 6, 2026 - Conference Day 1
Time: Topic: Speakers:

6:30 - 7:00am PT
7:30 - 8:00am MT
8:30 - 9:00am CT
9:30 - 10:00am ET

Coffee & Tea Time

Informal virtual gathering in the Conference Lobby to start the day.

All-Attendee Networking Event

7:00 - 7:30am PT
8:00 - 8:30am MT
9:00 - 9:30am CT
10:00 - 10:30am ET

Welcome & President's Address

Pamm Scribner, MEd, BCET®

7:30 - 8:55am PT
8:30 - 9:55am MT
9:30 - 10:55am CT
10:30 - 11:55am ET

KEYNOTE — PART 1: 
Understanding Regulation: A Beginner’s Guide to The Zones of Regulation

Leah Kuypers, MA Ed., OTR/L
Creator and Founder of the Zones of Regulation

10-Minute Break

9:05 - 10:30am PT
10:05 - 11:30am MT
11:05am - 12:30pm CT
12:05 - 1:30pm ET

KEYNOTE — PART 2: 
Understanding Regulation: A Beginner’s Guide to The Zones of Regulation

Leah Kuypers, MA Ed., OTR/L
Creator and Founder of the Zones of Regulation

15-Minute Break

10:45 - 11:25am PT
11:45am - 12:25pm MT
12:45 - 1:25pm CT
1:45 - 2:25pm ET

AET Awards Presentation

Join us to congratulate this year's recipients!

 

11:25am - 12:15pm PT
12:25 - 1:15pm MT
1:25 - 2:15pm CT
2:25 - 3:15pm ET

Eat & Greet Lunch Break

Join one of three breakout rooms for informal chats with colleagues.

All-Attendee Networking Event

12:15 - 1:45pm PT
1:15 - 2:45pm MT
2:15 - 3:45pm CT
3:15 - 4:45pm ET

BREAKOUT SESSION 1 — Choose one of three:

Joan Green, MA, CCC-SLP

Kim Palmer, MA, MS

Jose Chavez, EdD, BCET, ADHD-CE
Paul Yellin, MD, FAAP
Kim Carter, MA

15-Minute Break

2:00 - 3:30pm PT
3:00 - 4:30pm MT
4:00 - 5:30pm CT
5:00 - 6:30pm ET

BREAKOUT SESSION 2 — Choose one of three:

Allison Mages

Cristina Post, EdM, ET/P

Lizzett Cuervo-Losas, MA Ed, Certified TOSD

3:30 - 4:30pm PT
4:30 - 5:30pm MT
5:30 - 6:30pm CT
6:30 - 7:30pm ET

Happy Hour & Networking

Pour yourself a drink and join us for an informal wind-down in the Conference Lobby. Student/Associate breakout room available.

All-Attendee Networking Event

  

Saturday, November 7, 2026 - Conference Day 2
Time: Topic: Speakers:

7:00 - 7:30am PT
8:00 - 8:30am MT
9:00 - 9:30am CT
10:00 - 10:30am ET

Coffee & Tea Time

Informal virtual gathering in the Conference Lobby. Student/Associate breakout room available.

All-Attendee Networking Event

7:30 - 9:00am PT
8:30 - 10:00am MT
9:30 - 11:00am CT
10:30am - 12:00pm ET

BREAKOUT SESSION 1 — Choose one of three:

Amy Anderson, MEd

Jess Durrett-Hansher, MEd, ET/P

Ellen Chestnut, JD

15-Minute Break

9:15 - 10:45am PT
10:15 - 11:45am MT
11:15am - 12:45pm CT
12:15 - 1:45pm ET

BREAKOUT SESSION 2 — Choose one of three:

Amanda Lepore, MS, ET/P

Emily Figueroa, MEd
Kara Scanlon, MEd, BCET, CPC

Amy Brummel, SLPD, CCC-SLP/L, BCS-CL
Kassidy Hanson, CCC-SLP/L

10:45 - 11:30am PT
11:45am - 12:30pm MT
12:45 - 1:30pm CT
1:45 - 2:30pm ET

Eat & Greet

Join one of three breakout rooms for informal chats with colleagues.

All-Attendee Networking Event

11:30am - 1:00pm PT
12:30 - 2:00pm MT
1:30 - 3:00pm CT
2:30 - 4:00pm ET

BREAKOUT SESSION 3 — Choose one of three:

Elizabeth Sautter, MA, CCC-SLP

Ashley Brien, PhD, CCC-SLP

Caroline Towery, MEd, BCET

15-Minute Break

1:15 - 3:40pm PT
2:15 - 4:40pm MT
3:15 - 5:40pm CT
4:15 - 6:40pm ET

PANEL DISCUSSION:
Beyond the Session: Making Collaboration Work

Moderator:

  • Lori Dver

Panelists:

  • Dr. Kaye Ragland
  • Erin White

3:30 - 4:00pm PT
4:30 - 5:00pm MT
5:30 - 6:00pm CT
6:30 - 7:00pm ET

Happy Hour & Wrap Up

Pour yourself a drink and join us for an informal wind-down in the Conference Lobby.

All-Attendee Networking Event

  

Sunday, November 8, 2026 - Conference Day 3
Time: Topic: Speakers:

7:00 - 7:30am PT
8:00 - 8:30am MT
9:00 - 9:30am CT
10:00 - 10:30am ET

Coffee & Tea Time

Informal virtual gathering in the Conference Lobby. Student/Associate breakout room available.

All-Attendee Networking Event

7:30 - 9:00am PT
8:30 - 10:00am MT
9:30 - 11:00am CT
10:30am - 12:00pm ET

BREAKOUT SESSION — Choose one of four:

David Palmer, EdD

Diane Montgomery, PhD, ET/P
Melissa Bishop, PhD

Charles A. Ahern, PhD

Moderator:

  • Bonnie Massimino
15-Minute Break

9:15 - 10:45am PT
10:15 - 11:45am MT
11:15am - 12:45pm CT
12:15 - 1:45pm ET

PANEL DISCUSSION:
From Inclusion to Belonging: A conversation based on social justice survey results

Moderator:

  • TBA

Panelists:

  • TBA

10:45 - 11:15am PT
11:45am - 12:15pm MT
12:45 - 1:15pm CT
1:45 - 2:15pm ET

Conference Wrap-Up Networking

Join us for an informal wind-down in the Conference Lobby. See you next year!

All-Attendee Networking Event

  

Pre-Recorded, Asynchronous Sessions
Time: Topic: Speakers:

On Demand

Listening Is Not a Behavior You Can See: A Neurodiversity-Affirming Approach (SE-18)

Elizabeth Sautter, MA, CCC-SLP

On Demand

Regulation Before Education: Accessing the Learning Brain Through CALM (EF/ES-16)

David Palmer, EdD

On Demand

HYET (Have You Ever Tried) Discussion

Moderator:

  • Bonnie Massimino

 


Join us at the
48th Annual AET Conference!