Andrew Arboe

Each autistic person has their own sensory needs and challenges. This presentation goes over each sense and strategies to help you manage your needs. This presentation is targeted towards parents with children or older individuals.

We go over the autism term for special interests, hobbies that may go into pathways for individuals to explore. I go over my personal experiences.

For those who are interested in self-employment, I go over my experiences in starting the Driving with Autism program for almost a year. I go over what worked and what did not work for me, so people can know what to make sure they include in their business idea.

Based on an employment experience in which Andrew was laid off, he goes over how to create a routine while job hunting. He goes over his process of what career paths he could invest in and what organizational methods he uses to document information. Most importantly, Andrew goes over how to recover from a lay off and be your best self.

Parents in this presentation can discover what they can do to create change in the traffic stop situation between the autism community and officers.

Designed for school professionals, this topic goes over tips to make your job coaching go to the next level. Having job coached for almost three years, Andrew will review concepts and experiences he had to help you make the most out of this impactful role.

This represents a basic overview of college concepts like selecting a major, creating routine, using accommodations and other resources. Financial aid and other options are discussed with personal perspectives from Andrew who attended both in-person and online colleges.

This presentation will cover how barriers can impact how individuals can achieve their major goals. It is also discussed is how engaging in problem solving techniques can decrease these barriers to be empowered in life. Andrew Arboe will touch upon his own experiences in how he dealt with barriers to achieve his goals and how to manage some failures along the way. Self-advocates and families are super welcome to attend this workshop.

The idea of their teens and older adults driving can cause anxiety to their parents. Even more when autism is in the picture. Anxiety can be an internal barrier to people trying to achieve their goals, including driving. Having seen his dad in action during his practice and speaking to many families, Andrew created this presentation to break this barrier down. Andrew will go over the best strategies to empower you and your teens. Andrew will also go over some red flags to note and what strategies to avoid overtime.

Inspired by the play theory of Straut Brown, Andrew makes a case for professionals to invest in using play histories of young adults to create routines to establish structures after aging out of school. Andrew uses his own experiences to illustrate how using childhood passions introduced him to life themes and by finding a community group helped increase his self-confidence. His own play style helped him find purpose and be empowered in finding his professional passion through autism work.

Transition or aging out of special education services can be scary for anyone to the point that is the perception it makes for itself. It is a perception that makes people miss various opportunities and experience negative mental health issues. Andrew believes that it doesn’t have to be this perception and that reframing it as a journey can help families and individuals move forward as life does not end at age 22. By self-pacing and following your strengths, you can make transitioning more positive, while accepting the scary/negative perception around you.

Andrew Arboe goes over his childhood and the inspirations that shaped him into the adult he is today. Andrew believes that these inspirations shaped his viewpoints and how he handles autism advocacy as a outsider due to lack of resources upon aging out. Due to being absent to the Autism scene until 2015/2016 and going the professional route, it gives him a gray take on autism. He covers his ten-year journey in this presentation with various real-life examples, photos. He finally gives advice to not just advocates, but parents as well on what he learned overall to celebrate life.

This topic goes over the key components of engaging in a roommate arrangement for housing. Andrew will review his lived experience of setting up the arrangement and the steps it took to make it official. Those steps follow from doing meetings to see the compatibility of yourself and the roommate themselves and setting up mock runs to try it out in a real setting. It also goes over the challenges and practical tips of making sure the arrangement and environment works with you.

Originally presented for the 2025 ICAN Autism Conference, I go over my wishes for employment programs, companies and providers can consider for their autism initiatives. I go over how stereotypes affected my initial employment search and how I came in terms of being in the human services field. I make a case of embracing the diversity of the community in creating programs in non-tech fields like education and looking at existing inclusive models and experiences can serve as inspiration for future investment in models and programs.