Built for practitioners who work with PDA — and the families who live it

Attendees compare the programming favorably to professional-only conferences they have paid considerably more to attend. The draw is not a survey of familiar ground. It is frameworks and material that have not filtered into standard training yet — nervous-system-informed approaches, demand reduction, and practical ways to adapt existing models for PDA.

This is the most-repeated piece of feedback. Practitioners describe hearing a parent ask a live question, or a PDAer describe what a strategy actually felt like on the receiving end, and finding that it reorganized information they already had.

The specifics of what failed and what finally worked do not make it into case studies. Sitting near the people who lived it is a different input than reading about them.

Many sessions offer CEUs, and where CEUs are not available we issue a certificate of completion that can be submitted toward CE requirements. Availability varies by session and by discipline.

We recommend confirming acceptance with your own licensing board before registering, because requirements differ by state and profession.

PDA is a small enough specialty that most practitioners work without nearby colleagues who share the focus. Attendees come from across the country and regularly leave with referral relationships in states where they previously had none.