Saturday, November 1st, 2025
9:30am-4:30pm
Goodman Community Center (Brassworks Building)
214 Waubesa St.
Madison, WI 53704
This year’s theme “Stronger Together” will focus on how autistic adults and their allies can build communities and connections that facilitate our ability to create change on the issues that systemically affect autistic people.
Webinar featuring Devon Price (author of Unmasking Autism & Unmasking for Life) on Thursday, November 6th at 7:00 PM; Presentation with Q & A and discussion to follow
Join us in person and/or on Zoom
Zoom link for conference and webinar will be emailed out the day before each event
After dinner break (dinner is not provided)
laid-back social gathering
NGL Room at Goodman (sensory room during conference)
Feel free to use the evening to discuss topics from the conference, get to know fellow attendees, or just decompress from the long day.
November 2nd 1:30-6:30 pm
OutReach LGBTQ+ Community Center
2701 International Lane #101
Madison, WI 53704
Casual event with snacky potluck, games & activities and opportunity to hang out.
Have a question or want to get in touch? We'd love to hear from you. Contact us today and we'll get back to you as soon as possible.
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.
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 have had these insights before they were 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.
Inquire at integral@autismsouthcentral.org
