Past Events Category: Autism

Featuring: Angela Marx, PhD
May 14, 2025 @ 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
UW South Madison Partnership, 2238 South Park Street, Madison, WI 53713

Overview: Because much of the current clinical and scholarly information around neurodivergent is deficit-based, limited, and some, even completely inaccurate, much of the clinical support is also misguided and unintentionally harmful. However, when we know …

Featuring: Amanda Pandl
April 30, 2025 @ 9:00 am - 11:30 am
UW South Madison Partnership, 2238 South Park Street, Madison, WI 53713

Overview: As caregivers, we are in a close and complicated relationship with the individuals we support. We are asked to ensure certain levels of health and safety, while also giving the client the dignity of …

Featuring: Peter Leidy
April 23, 2025 @ 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
UW South Madison Partnership, 2238 South Park Street, Madison, WI 53713

Overview: In this training session we will look at power and control in support relationships.  Many people being supported feel that others are too often telling them what to do.  Many supporters feel that guiding …

John D. Wiley Conference Center, Room T216
April 4, 2025 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
John D. Wiley Seminar Series

Ruth Carper, PhD San Diego State University Lab Website About the Speaker: Dr. Ruth Carper is a Research Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology from San Diego State University, and is also Co-Director of the …

Featuring: Dr. Alyssa Hillary Zisk
Friends of the Waisman Center Auditorium
March 15, 2025 @ 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Waisman Center

The Waisman Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, is hosting an Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) Improvisation Show led by Dr. Alyssa Hillary Zisk, an autistic improviser who can speak most of the time, but not always. …

John D. Wiley Conference Center, Room T216
February 28, 2025 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
John D. Wiley Seminar Series

Carla Mazefsky, PhD University of Pittsburgh Lab Website About the Speaker: Carla Mazefsky is a licensed clinical psychologist and Professor of Psychiatry, Psychology, and Clinical and Translational Science at the University of Pittsburgh. She completed her …

Featuring: Peter Leidy
2238 South Park Street, Madison, WI 53713
February 26, 2025 @ 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
UW South Madison Partnership

In this training session we will look at power and control in support relationships.  Many people being supported feel that others are too often telling them what to do. 

Featuring: Colleen McCluskey, AAS, BS, MS
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February 26, 2025 @ 8:15 am - 12:30 pm
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Come Join us for a discussion around the intersection of our bodies and disability focusing on gut health and sleep health. We will learn about existing research and discussion on these issues. Following that we …

Featuring: Lily Wagner, Luis Columna, and Leann DaWalt
1500 Highland Ave, Madison WI 53705
February 22, 2025 @ 9:00 am - 11:30 am
Waisman Center

21st Annual Click Here to Register En español Event Details When: Saturday, February 22, 2025 | 9:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. Where: In Person – At the Waisman Center – Friends of the Waisman Center Auditorium …

Featuring: Josh Lapin, MSSW
2238 South Park Street, Madison, WI 53713
February 18, 2025 @ 9:00 am - 3:00 pm
UW South Madison Partnership

Managing Threatening Confrontations is designed to assist you in learning how to effectively support individuals who could experience the full range of behavioral escalation.