Autcom Webinar - September 2025

Challenging the ‘Profound Autism’ Label: How Severity Scores and IQ Tests Obscure the Strengths of Nonspeaking Autistics

Saturday, September 20, 2025 @ 11:00 AM Eastern Time

 

Date:  September 20, 2025

Time:  11:00am – 1:00pm ET / 10:00am – 12:00pm CT / 9:00am – 11:00am MT / 8:00am – 11:00am PT

Registration is required in advance. Please use this link to register.

Presenter:  Dr. Kapp is an autistic academic at the University of Portsmouth in the UK. His research broadly considers the nature of autism and support for autistic people, as a concept, diagnosis, and identity; through participatory research with autistic people as community partners; and considering the perspectives of the autism community. He has critiqued profound autism, functioning labels, and severity scales and published on autism as a lifelong neurodivergence based in sensory and movement differences, as well as on the strengths of autistic people with speech divergence.

AutCom Board Member Maxfield Sparrow will introduce our presenter, Dr. Steven Kapp. At the end of his presentation, Dr. Kapp will respond to attendee questions in a Q&A session.