| 11:30AM - 12:30PM | Registration and Vendor Viewing | |||
| HOPE ROOM 1 | BELIEVE ROOM 2 | ACHIEVE ROOM 3 | SUCCEED ROOM 4 | |
| 12:30PM - 1:25PM | Balancing GABA and Glutamate to help OCD and Anxiety with Anju Usman Singh, MD, FAAFP, FMAPS | Managing Complex Cases with Homeopathy and Other Modalities with Jennifer Bahr, ND, DHANP | Maximizing the Autism Journey: Tips for Parents to Save Time, Money and Sanity for Optimal Results with Lisa Ackerman | Living Your Best Life: Teaching Meaningful Skills for Harmony and Happiness at Home with Adrienne Kessler, Ed D, BCBA |
| 1:30PM - 2:30PM | Autism & Healing: A Mother and Daughter's Experience with Marley and Kelly Steffens | Candida, Yeast, Mold, and Parasites? Your Gut is SUS! with Erica Smith and Jared Skowron, ND | Stress and Toxicity: How They Correlate and Practical Solutions to Improve Your Child's Health with Lindsey Wells, ND | Building a Community with Communication Differences with Darlene Hanson, MA-SLP |
| 2:30PM - 3:00PM | Break and Vendor Viewing | |||
| 3:00PM - 3:55PM | Review of Biomedical Treatments in ASD with Up-to-Date New Research. with Lanier Rossignol, FNP-C | Optimizing Health for Children with Autism: Essential Dietary Insights and Functional Medicine Lab Assessments with Erica Peirson, ND | Microbiota Dysbiosis in Autism and Microbiota Transplant Therapy with James B. Adams, PhD | Life After High School: Autism, Special Education & Transition Planning with Tim Adams, Esq |
| 4:00PM - 5:00PM | Restorative Neurology in Autism and Rare Childhood Diseases using Advanced Brain Nutrition with Dayan Goodenowe, PhD | Conservatorship and Alternatives for Persons with Autism with Elizabeth McCoy, Esq | How To Be A Self-Advocate: One Autistic Individual's Story with James Williams | Our Families Employment Success Story: Building Seesaw Coffee & Beans with Soa Kang and Evan |
| 6:30PM - 8:00PM | Friday Night Welcome Event Building Hope and Community: An Inspiring Evening for Parents to Connect |
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| 7:00AM - 8:30AM | Registration and Vendor Viewing | |||
| HOPE ROOM 1 | BELIEVE ROOM 2 | ACHIEVE ROOM 3 | SUCCEED ROOM 4 | |
8:30AM - 9:30AM | Brain Tools for Teens: Executive Function Strategies that Work with Sarah Kesty, MA, BCASE | Autism Research Review with Dan Rossignol, MD, FAAFP | Visual Problems Prevalent in Autism and Treatments Available with Susan Daniel, OD | Puberty with Lindsey Wells, ND |
| 9:30AM - 10:00AM | Break and Vendor Viewing | |||
10:00AM - 10:55AM | Bad behaviors? Pulling hair, scratching arms, screaming lungs, living room jungle gyms? We got this! with Jared Skowron, ND | Increasing Dopamine for Positive Behavior Outcomes with Rebecca Jackson, DC | College Prep for Autistic Students with Eric Endlich, PhD | Neuroinflammation in Autism: The Role of Superoxide and S-Nitrosylation with Robert Miller, BCTN |
11:00AM - 12:00PM | PANS/PANDAS with Lindsey Wells, ND | Speech & Communication Specialists Panel with Darlene Hanson, MA , SLP and Katie Anawalt, MS, CCC-SLP, ATS | Using Assessment to Drive your IEP Goals with Damian Fragoso, Esq | Changing the Course of Autism Through Genetics Guidance with Richard G. Boles, MD |
| 12:00PM - 1:30PM | Break and Vendor Viewing | |||
| 1:30PM - 2:30PM | Understanding Profound Autism with Judith Ursitti, CPA | MMP-9 Enzyme and Its Role in Brain Connectivity in Autism with Theoharis C. Theoharides, BA, MS, MPhil, PhD, MD, FAAAAI | Empowering Connection and Communication: Supporting Gestalt Language Processors from Scripted to Self-Generated Language with Jasmine Bacon, MS, CCC-SLP | Understanding and Securing Essential Services and Supports for your Child's IEP with Mark Woodsmall, Esq |
| 2:30PM - 3:00PM | Break and Vendor Viewing | |||
| 3:00PM - 4:00PM | KEYNOTE - Netflix's Love on the Spectrum Panel featuring David Isaacman, Dani Bowman, and Steve Spitz, moderated by Elaine Hall. |
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| 4:00PM - 5:00PM | Love on The Spectrum Meet and Greet/ Vendor Viewing | |||
| 6:30PM - 8:00PM | Physicians Panel with Dan Rossignol, MD, FAAFP, Julie Logan, DC, Anju Usman Singh, MD, FAAFP, FMAPS, Richard Frye, MD and Erica Pierson, ND |
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| 7:30AM - 8:30AM | Registration and Vendor Viewing | |||
| HOPE ROOM 1 | BELIEVE ROOM 2 | ACHIEVE ROOM 3 | SUCCEED ROOM 4 | |
8:30AM - 9:25AM | Use Your Words! Focused Biomedical Interventions to Help Children Regain Speech with Julie Logan, DC | Mom Matters, Too with Desiree Probolsky | Research Updates and the CDR with Robert K. Naviaux, PhD | Spellers Mini Series: Efficacy Of Spellers Method for Patients Diagnosed with Intellectual Disability, Down Syndrome, and Autism with Dawnmarie Gaivin, AT ACP, Spellers Method |
| 9:30AM - 10:30AM | Seizures and Case Studies of Common Biomedical Problems in Autism with Brian Hauser, MD and Desiree Mills, BA, MSN, FNP-C | The Gut Microbiome: What We Know So Far with Sabine Hazan, MD | Unlocking Sensory Success: Effective Strategies Beyond Sensory Diets with Erin Clarelli, MS, OTR/L | Spellers Mini Series: Blending Motor Planning with Neurodevelopmental Optometry to access spelled communication with Dana Johnson, PhD, MS, OTR/L |
| 10:30AM - 11:00AM | Break and Vendor Viewing | |||
| 11:00AM - 12:00PM | Nourishing Autism: Food Matters with Christa Robaina | Mito/CFD with Richard Frye, MD | Changing How Autism is Diagnosed with John Jay Gargus, Md,PhD | Spellers Mini Series: The Path Is Never Linear - Personal Stories of Triumph Plus a Vision for Your Nonspeaker’s Future with A Panel of 5 Fluent Spellers |
| 12:00PM - 1:30PM | Cash/Carry Lunch is offered at a discounted rate for conference attendees at the Hilton Orange County Hotel - Vendor Viewing | |||
| 12:30PM - 1:00PM | Lunch and Learn Detoxification With Terri Hirning from Ioncleanse by AMD |
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| 1:30PM - 2:25PM | Managing Histamine and MCAS with Low Dose Allergy Therapy with Darin Ingels, ND, FAAEM, FMAPS | Why Won't My Child Eat? Exploring the Intersection of Picky Eating, Constipation, Mouth Breathing, and Parasympathetic Nervous System Dysfunction with Bri Kurcsak, MS, OTR/L | Transition to Adulthood - The SPED Adult Transition Process with Scarlett K. vonThenen | Canine Companions Service Dogs with Kate Incremona |
| 2:30PM - 3:30PM | Integrative Approaches to Managing Comorbid Conditions in Autism Spectrum Disorder: An Interdisciplinary Perspective with Michael J. Cameron, PhD, BCBA-D, LBA | Rhythm and Regulation: The Organizing Impact of Music on our Lives with Michelle Welde Hardy, MM, MT-BC | Affordable Housing Options for Persons with Disabilities in Orange County, CA with Scarlett K. vonThenen | Experiential Life Skills with Erin Schirm |
| 3:30PM - 4:00PM | TACA’s Take-Home Tips: Inspiring Hope for Your Journey Ahead | |||
Balancing Acts: Fostering Family Resilience and Unity on the Autism Support Journey
with Kat Smith, MSCMH, NCC