Hiding in Plain Sight: Shining Light on Women with Asperger/Autism Profiles

Please see information below on a conference (with live stream broadcast option) AANE is co-hosting focused on Women with Asperger/Autism profiles this Friday March 3rd at Newton Wellesley Hospital in the Bowles Conference Center from 8:30-4:30.  

 

For more information & registration details, please use the following link: http://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/event?oeidk=a07edp0daoqb97682d5&llr=b54cxzaab&showPage=true 



 

Conference Schedule

 8:30 AM–  9:00 AM

Registration

 9:00 AM–10:00 AM

William Mandy, DClinPsy Ph.D.

Girls and Women on the Autism Spectrum: Misdiagnosis and the Female Autism Phenotype

10:00 AM–10:15 AM

Personal Accounts, 2 stories

10:15 AM–10:30 AM

Break

10:30 AM–12:00 PM

Sarah Hendrickx, MA

Autism in Girls and Women: Developing Social and Personal Relationships

12:00 PM– 1:00 PM

Lunch

  1:00 PM– 2:30 PM

Liane Holliday Willey, Ed.D.

Vulnerabilities and Support for Women with ASD

  2:30 PM– 2:45 PM

Personal Accounts, 2 stories

  2:45 PM– 3:00 PM

Break

  3:00 PM– 4:00 PM

Erika Drezner, MSW, LCSW

Mother-Daughter Relationships:

Strategies for positive growth

  4:00 PM– 4:15 PM

Personal Accounts, 2 stories


 

Hear Real Stories from Our Community

 

Preselected members of our community will read their first-person accounts. Topics include friendship, gender, late-life diagnosis, marriage, relationships, school, sensory, and work experiences. All attendees will receive a booklet of the first-person stories featured at the conference.  

 

Please contact AANE directly with questions regarding this conference