You will find below typical comments attendees would make after attending Michelle's conference. These anonymous ones have been gathered at the Spokane, WA conference in 2003.

• This was an outstanding presentation and new ideas.
• Michelle’s ability to talk from the perspective of working in the trenches is very appreciated. I’ve come away with new information as well as therapy ideas I can implement tomorrow. She’s a natural presenter. Her humor and willingness to disclose personal antecdotes made it easy to assimilate new information.
  Objectives met very well! Very functional, useful, purposeful information!
• Wonderful presenter. Kept my interest for 2 full days!
• Excellent handouts and books! Great job giving me more vocabulary to advocate for these students.
• Great conference! I’ve learned a lot of useful information that I will be taking back to my therapy room!
• One of the most useful, enjoyable in-services I have attended.
• Very pertinent information.
• Used examples, videos to make points!
• Thank you for including out of district people!
• I have several kids on caseload for whom this applies. I can take ideas home to use today!
• The presentation was balanced with a variety of strategies.
• Great speaker! Good ideas for assessment and teaching how to think with your eyes.
• I went away with a far greater understanding of “autism spectrum” and how to begin to work with them, and help others to realize the adverse impact on educational performance.
  The videos and handouts were excellent and well organized and matched the presentation.
• This is one of the best 2 day in-services I’ve ever attended. Michelle is an extremely good presenter, animated, expressive, well organized and knowledgeable. Her theoretical understanding has actually grown out of her experience and her many examples made it very real. I also like the fact that she has worked in public education.
• Great presentation. Wonderful speaker. She was wonderful to listen to. The videos were a great prop and helped make the visual to auditory link.
• Michelle was entertaining and easy to listen to. I would definitely recommend her to others.
• Excellent workshop, good food and nice facility.
  Michelle is an excellent speaker. I enjoyed her humor and the content of the presentation was valuable and very thought provoking.
• I like that he is an opinionated fighter for kids.
• It gives exact things to do to analyze what to do to work with kids with ASD in the social-cognitive area.
• Michelle did an outstanding job in presenting new and obvious ways of working with these kiddos. Her actual case studies were an added bonus – they made it more real! Outstanding job!
• Michelle was so very interesting. What a valuable resource provider. I w