Jack O’Connor, M.Ed., BCBA

Jack O’Connor graduated from Simmons College in Boston, MA with a Master’s Degree in Severe Special Needs Education (K-12) in 2010 and has been a Board-Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA) since 2012. Jack serves as the School Director for the Matthew Reardon Center for Autism’s Advance Academy, a year-round day school for children on the spectrum. … Read more

Kyler Shumway, Ph.D.

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Dr. Kyler Shumway is the President and Chief Clinical Officer of Deep Eddy Psychotherapy, one of the largest mental health practices in Texas. He is also a bestselling author who recentlypublished his third book, The Science of Friendship, as an Amazon Audible Original series. He has been featured by Forbes, The New York Times, CNN, … Read more

Amy Lang, MA

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Sexual health educator Amy Lang, MA (she/her) provides childhood sexual development training for early childhood and youth-serving organizations. She also helps parents and caregivers learn how to talk with children about sexuality. To make these uncomfortable topics easier for folks to learn, she uses a lively, engaging, and down-to-earth style to put people at ease. … Read more

Elizabeth Aslinger, Ph.D.

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Dr. Aslinger is a neuroscientist, quantitative psychologist, and scientific software developer who currently conducts immunogenetics research at Mount Sinai School of Medicine. She has a background in clinical and personality psychology, computational psychiatry, psychometrics, and philosophy and history of science and medicine from earlier work at Yale (BA, post-doctoral), Emory, University of Pittsburgh, and Purdue … Read more

Dr. Daniel Wendler

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Daniel Wendler, is a best-selling author, nationally recognized keynote speaker, and a proud autistic self-advocate who is thrilled to be returning to the Savannah autism conference. Daniel taught himself social skills as a way of overcoming the social challenges of his Asperger’s diagnosis, and founded ImproveYourSocialSkills.com to help others achieve social success too. He went … Read more