Beyond Limits: Canada's Conference for Diversity and Accessibility 2024

Society often puts labels on people with disabilities, which in turn limits their ability to thrive. Beyond Limits brings people together to exchange ideas, expertise, and knowledge with a goal of enhancing the quality and accessibility of services for people with additional support needs.

We push beyond the limits of the possible into the impossible. It is here where we truly create a community of inclusivity, amplifying the voices of the people we serve.

With a focus on behaviour, research, technology, ethics, and best practices, Beyond Limits will leave you with practical tools, strategies, and information to allow professionals, para-professionals and decision makers to better support the people they serve.

Our theme for the 2024 in-person conference is living your best life at every stage. Our goal is to enhance the quality and accessibility of services for all people, at every age and stage in their life. We will explore intersections of age with topics such as culture, communication, and community access to ensure that we are supporting children, youth, adults and seniors to live the life that they want.

Tickets include continental breakfast and lunch. All tickets are refundable up to 7 days before the event.

View a full description of each breakout session including a downloadable PDF on our website

This 2024 in-person conference is geared to front line workers, family caregivers of those with intellectual and developmental disabilities, disability self advocates, clinicians and professionals working in or with the disability community.

Grant Bruno is Nehiyaw (Plains Cree) and a registered member of Nipsihkopahk (Samson Cree Nation), one of the reserves that makes up Maskwacis, Alberta, but grew up in Enoch Cree Nation.

He is a PhD in Medical Sciences - Pediatrics candidate at the University of Alberta. His PhD research explores redefining autism from a Nehiyaw lens, gathering stories with families and individuals who have experiences with autism using a strength-based approach, as well as gathering data on the perspectives of autism in Maskwacis.

• Aaron Lanou
• Kendra Thomson and Louis Busch
• Dr. Danie Botha
• Leslie Udell
• Carly Fox
• Peter Tonge
• And more!

Please contact us at [email protected] to let us know of any accessibility accommodations you require and we will do our best to support you.

Beyond Limits strives to have our events accessible to all. If the cost is a barrier, please contact us and let's find a way to work it out.

Continental breakfast and lunch are included in the cost of tickets. Ticket sales are refundable up to seven days before the event.

Beyond Limits is pleased to offer a limited number of subsidized tickets specifically for family caregivers of those with intellectual or developmental disabilities and for disability self advocates. If you belong to one of these groups, please select it from the ticket options.

Please be aware that Beyond Limits will be taking photos and/or video at this event. Beyond Limits may use the photograph/video in publications or other media material produced, used or contracted by Beyond Limits including but not limited to: brochures, newsletters, invitations, television, website, social media, etc.

To ensure the privacy of individuals, images will not be identified using full names or personal information without written approval from the photographed subject, parent or legal guardian.

If a person does not wish to have their image recorded for marketing purposes, please make your wishes known to the photographer, and/or the event organizers.

By participating in a Beyond Limits event or by failing to notify Beyond Limits in writing that you would not like to be photographed, you consent to your voice and/or likeness being used without compensation in any and all media.

Host or Publisher Canadian Conference on Developmental Disabilities and Autism