Sparking Collaboration | Advancing Treatment
Two days where medicine, behavior analysis, speech, social work, education, research, advocacy, and family experience sit in the same room and learn from each other.
Founded in 2023 by Nashoba Learning Group in partnership with the Profound Autism Alliance. We focus on the people with the highest support needs, who are the most underrepresented in research, training, and services.
April 15 to 16, 2027 at the Hilton Boston Park Plaza. Program, speakers, hotel block, and registration.
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Our third Summit. The full program plus every session recording, still available on demand.
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Featured sessions on skill-based treatment, psychopharmacology, and defining profound autism.
View recap →Clinicians, researchers, educators, and families who spend their working lives on profound autism come together for two days each spring. Sponsors and exhibitors are part of that, not adjacent to it. You will meet the people doing the work, and they will get to know you.
Figures from the 2026 Summit.
Every session meets the same bar, evidence-based and in service of people with profound autism and their families. That is the standard this audience counts on, and it is part of what makes being here worth something.
The Summit is two days a year. The learning does not have to be. Recorded sessions from the Summit are here whenever you need them, and many carry CE credit for behavior analysts.
Explore Recorded Sessions
Kate Grandbois · Foundational knowledge and intervention
Emily Varon · Practical strategies for better rest
Jessica Slaton · A person-centered approach to challenging behavior
Peter Gerhardt and Jessica Cauchi · Goals, priorities, and strategies
The Profound Autism Summit was founded by Nashoba Learning Group in partnership with the Profound Autism Alliance in 2023.
Summit announcements, new Village resources, and CE course releases. Tell us whether you are a family member or a professional and we will send what fits.