Thank you for joining us at INTEGRAL 2025!
Thank you to everyone involved in making this year's conference such a success!
Thank you for helping create this community— contributing your perspective, listening to fellow attendees, exchanging ideas, centering autistic adults, and fostering further understanding.
Welcome!
INTEGRAL is an autism conference like no other. It puts adults on the autism spectrum front and center, not as a subject for others to discuss, but to come together and exchange perspectives with non-autistic professionals and parents so that everyone can learn from each other.
Adults on the autism spectrum don’t have as much of a voice as they should. Their roles and relevance to autism issues are under-represented not only scientifically and politically, but within the autism community itself. Yet adults on the autism spectrum have a tremendous amount of lived experience that can help put autism issues into their most proper context – the context of what it’s actually like to live a life on the autism spectrum.
INTEGRAL is dedicated to expanding and improving communication between adults on the autism spectrum and the countless specialists, supporters, and family members whose lives and work are entwined with theirs, with a focus on ensuring that adult autism voices are fully and accurately represented to professional, political, and parental leaders in the wider autism community. “Nothing about us without us."
Have a connection to autism? We want you there. All stakeholders of the autism community are invited to attend – adults on the spectrum, parents, support workers, researchers, clinicians, therapists, educators, social workers, disability advocates, and business leaders, among others. The biggest goal of INTEGRAL is to get lots of perspectives sharing ideas, educating each other, and forging a stronger community through direct interaction.
How this conference is different
INTEGRAL is unique because we use a collaborative model—not the usual top-down lecture model of most conferences.
Our goal for this conference is for it to be a community effort.
It’s a community made up of autistic adults, non-autistic parents, and non-autistic professionals, who will learn from each other to form a bigger and better-equipped network with more of the resources, insights, and diverse perspectives to take on the challenges faced by autistic adults today.
Our participants bring much life experience to the table.
• Many autistic adults have knowledge about autism that no one else has. In fact, many times they've had these insights before being scientifically recognized
• Non-autistic parents have been advocating for their children since they were born and are looking for ways to change our culture to be more accepting.
• Non-autistic professionals, too, want to make a big difference in making the lived experience of autistic adults positive and fulfilling.
We want this community effort to start a conversation that continues to make a difference. We hope today you learn from listening and by adding to the conversation if you are able.
Interested in being a sponsor for this year's conference?
Inquire at integral@autismsouthcentral.org
Interested in making next year’s conference happen?
Fill out our short volunteer interest form and we’ll reach out!
We hope to see you at this great opportunity for learning and growing as a community!
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