Autism Adulthood: A Long, Bumpy Road: How I Finally Got My Profoundly Autistic Adult Son the Life He Deserves [Webinar] matters because it changes what a BCBA notices when decisions have to hold up in adult services and community participation. For this course, the practical stakes show up in skills that remain meaningful when school supports disappear and adult expectations change, not in abstract discussion alone.
Provider: BehaviorLive — via Profound Autism Summit
Take This Course →Including ethics, supervision, and topics like this one. New live CEU every Wednesday.
Join Free →Join Author Susan Senator, an autism mom since 1989, and follow her journey from her 34 year old son Nat's transition to adulthood, into the present. Susan will provide plenty of in-the-trenches experience and lessons learned, as well as some strategies and insights into profound autism adulthood gleaned from other autism parent experts. Expect deep honesty softened by wry humor in this very accessible presentation.
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Susan Senator is an author, blogger and journalist living in the Boston area with her husband Ned Batchelder. She has three sons, the oldest of whom is 34 and has severe autism. Ms. Senator is the author of Making Peace With Autism as well as The Autism Mom’s Survival Guide . Her third edition of her popular book, Autism Adulthood: Insights and Creative Strategies for a Fulfilling Life will be released in October 2025. A journalist since 1997, she writes a column for Psychology Today, and she has published many pieces on disability, parenting, and living happily, in places like the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, and NPR. Senator has appeared as a guest on the Today Show, MSNBC, ABC News, PBS, NPR and CNN. Her writings on Special Olympics took her to the White House in 2006, to a state dinner for Eunice Kennedy Shriver. Ms. Senator’s blog, publications, and events can be found on www.susansenator.com
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