Morning Session
Focused on Families, Parents, and Caregivers
9:00am-Noon
Welcome and Why We Are Here
9:00am
Dawn-Marie Solais, Author, Speaker, Coach, Consultant, and Founder of INAS Neurodiversity Conferences will get us started with a bit of information and inspiration about INAS 2022 and why we are all gathered.
Morning Session, Main stage/In-person, Live Streamed
A Moment From Our Sponsors
ICDL/DIRFloortime, Rise NY, and Union Center Church Representatives will share a bit about themselves and why they chose to support INAS 2022.
Morning Session, Main stage/In-person, Live Streamed
Our Life With Tourette's
Join this mom and son team of Debbie and Kellen Orlando as they share their experience navigating, advocating, living life with Tourette's.
Morning Session, Main stage/In-person, Live Streamed
Let's Talk About Parenting
11:00am-noon
This panel of moms are all raising neurodivergent children, and they are ready to share their personal stories and ideas. Join the conversation in-person and streaming live.
Dawn-Marie Solais will be moderating and will be joined by Florencia Ardon, LaToya Pryce, Debby Orlando, Doris Adams, Kelly Guthrie, and Claudia Garcia.
Morning Session, Main stage/In-person, Live Streamed
In-Person Breakout Sessions -Sessions start at 10:00 and 11:00am
10:00-10:45am
Learn about DIRFloortime, with Jackie Bartell, M.Ed. and Colette Ryan. It's a therapy designed for children and adults with disabilities from two local practitioners.
Visions Federal Credit Union will be offering financial education and one-on-one consulting. Understanding your money, setting up trusts, and more will be part of the offering.
LGBTQI+ Room is where you can meet others from this intersectional community, talk about what's hard, what's hopeful, and what supports are available.
11:00-Noon
The American Suicide Prevention Foundation will have representatives on hand to explain what the organization does, how you can be involved, and how you can be helped.
Welcome to the Floor, with Jackie Bartell, M.Ed. and Colette Ryan. Learn about DIRFloortime, a specialized therapy designed for children and adults.
Parenting Conversations will be a room open for anyone who wants to meet and talk with other area parents.
The Sibling Room will be open to people who want to talk about what it's like to be a sibling who is neurodivergent or who is the sibling of a neurodivergent person.
The Quiet Room has been designed for when you want to be quiet for a bit. Gently lit and minimally decorated, this room will help lower the stimulation of the day.
A Virtual Taste will be a room where you can watch some selections from our virtual ticket while you relax and regroup.
Afternoon Program
Education, Business, and Tech take to the main stage with Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion as the focus. Be sure to check the great breakout sessions as well.
1:00-4:00pm
Neurodivergence: More than Just a Kid Thing
1:00pm
Dawn-Marie Solais will get the afternoon session going with a few thoughts on the world of neurodivergent adulthood.
Afternoon Session, Main stage/In-person, Live Streamed
A Moment From Our Sponsors
Unleashed Potential and ICDL will share a bit about themselves and why they chose to
support INAS 2022.
Afternoon Session, Main Stage/In-person, Live Streamed
Badger Communication Tech
Would you like life subtitled? Badger co-founder, Mike Williston, will tell us about the tech and how it could help neurodivergent people.
Afternoon Session, Main Stage/In-person, Live Streamed
Education: How it is. How it Should be.
1:45-2:45pm
Whether we are talking pre-school or post-doc, neurodivergent people, their parents, and their caregivers are seeking educational opportunities that understand, support, include, and accommodate the unique needs of all students. Often, educational institutions do not have up-to-date knowledge or ability to truly include and accommodate the neurodivergent student. Dawn-Marie Solais will moderate this panel of educator: Laurie Ackles, Florencia (Flor) Ardon, Michael Strong, Christine Harkness, and Ilene Monico.
Afternoon Session, Main Stage/In-Person, Live streamed
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: We Exist and We're Worth It
3:00-4:00pm
Communities, Companies, and Organizations are all working to figure out what it means to include and accommodate a richly diverse population and workforce, but until recently, neurodiversity has been left out of the conversation. Join this panel of individuals working to change that, and let's consider some of the ways equity and inclusion work best --
for everyone.
LaToya Pryce will moderate this panel that includes Teresa Thomas, Ron Crawford, Kendra Evans, and Mike Williston.
Afternoon Session, Main Stage/In-Person, Live streamed
In-Person Breakout Sessions - Afternoon
1:45-2:45pm
Ron Crawford: Inclusive Leadership In the Workplace. Talk with Ron about how Unleashed Potential can help your company leaders up their DEI knowledge, skill, and excellence.
DIRFloortime practitioners offer information in "Welcome to the floor"
Doris and Brian Adams: A Life of Advocacy Join them as they share
some of the triumphs and trials from his amazing life story.
3:00-4:00pm
Allyson Aylesworth will be leading an inter-faith conversation about the values, culture and practical details of becoming inclusive places of worship.
Dawn-Marie Solais and guests will be leading a discussion on impediments to mental and physical health care.
Dr Christine Harkness will be discussing how to incorporate DIRFlootime concepts into a school setting and sharing her success helping schools do just that.
Maggie Henry is the Broome/Tioga Chairmen for American Suicide Prevention Foundation. Learn about the important work of this organization and how you can get involved.
Visions Federal Credit Union will all be available again for conversations and information. Visit them in their room.
Sibling Conversations: What's it like to be part of a neurodivergent family? Come share your thoughts and experiences in this open conversation space.
The Quiet Room has been designed for when you want to be quiet for a bit. Gently lit and minimally decorated, this room will help lower the stimulation of the day.
A Virtual Taste will be a room where you can watch some selections from our virtual ticket while you relax and regroup.
Evening Program
The vendors are gone. No more breakout sessions. Just one main stage, time to think together, and find ways to move forward. A powerful, inspiring, and need to be there event.
So Now What Do We Do?
5:30-7:30pm
Let's really think together. Participants on this panel will add their thoughts, passions, and projects to a discussion about ways we can all make things better for the neurodivergent community and beyond. Moderated by Dawn-Marie Solais, this panel will include Teresa Thomas, Ron Crawford, Michael Williston, Andrew Eddy, Mary Doherty, and Sonja Duric.
Evening session, Main Stage/In-Person, Live streamed
Virtual Program
This is 30+ hours of content available through December 31, 2022 to all virtual ticket holders. It includes the Live Streamed Main Stage and the recordings, as well as access to live virtual breakout sessions and all the pre-recorded content. Access is limited for Live events.
So get your tickets now.
Live Breakout Sessions
Michael Strong, Star Peterson, Inarm Osborn, and Moms on the Spectrum podcasters Kelly and Claudia will each be doing a live virtual breakout session on the respective topics of Education, Transitioning to Adulthood, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Employment tech, and Parenting. These will be video meetings and will be designed to be conversational. Your constructive input will be welcomed.
Prerecorded Program
Available via the virtual ticket only, more than 30 hours of content from many of our speakers, a few of whom are pictured here. Topics include hypermobility, ADHD, intersectionality, therapy, DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion), medicine, tech, music, parenting, architecture, and more. Check our Facebook page for clips from many of our prerecorded conversations. Informational, personal, touching, each person speaks from the conviction, heart, and lived experience.
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Neither EQSolutions: You 2.0 nor Neuroawesome Life may be held responsible
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