Dr. Tony Attwood: "Encouraging Social Understanding and Emotion Management"
• Learn strategies to encourage friendship skills
• Discover the “emotional toolbox” - learn valuable tools to improve physical activity, relaxation, social skills, etc.
• Learn how to restore the emotional equilibrium
• Hear “Seth’s Star Wars Story” – learning to move from anger to calm and happy
• Become informed about how medication can be used as a tool

David Kirby: "Evidence of Harm: Mercury in Vaccines and the Autism Epidemic, A Medical Controversy”
• Hear compelling evidence that the mercury-based vaccine preservative, thimerosal, has helped fuel the explosion of autism
• Learn about the links between autism and mercury
• Hear how this simmering controversy affects Canada as much as the United States
• Learn about new treatments for autism such as chelation and methyl B12 therapy

Dr. Jed Baker: “Social Skills Training and Frustration Management Strategies”
• Discover the reasons for social skill deficits and disruptive behaviors.
• Learn how to prevent and manage meltdowns or tantrums.
• Be trained how to motivate verbal and non-verbal students to socialize.
• Learn strategies to teach verbal and non-verbal students.
• Gain skills in teaching peers to be more tolerant and supportive of students with autism.  

Taylor Cross: "Normal People Scare Me"
• Join 17yr. old Taylor, the talented young filmmaker with autism, and his mother Keri as they share their journey through autism and the making of this exceptional feature documentary (http://www.normalfilms.com/)
• Normal People Scare Me, a 90 minute feature-length documentary about autism shares first-person experiences of life and living with the disorder. The two-year long project, written and co-produced by Taylor Cross, 17, with autism.