Strive for the next best thing and be accountable to yourself. Find your passion and never look back.
Andrew Arboe: Autistic Self Advocate and Speaker is a brand created by Andrew Arboe himself to serve schools, providers and autism/disability organizations. As a freelance brand, his main services include public speaking, contracting, and information referral for families. His public speaking service is well known as Andrew presented to organizations like Autism Connections (Keynote speaker for their 2023 conference), Arc of Massachusetts, and Association of Autism and Neurodiversity (AANE). During 2025, Andrew presented for the 2025 International Conference for Autism and Neurodevelopmental Disorders in Orlando, Florida. His topics are focused on autism in major areas like special education, transportation, transitioning to adulthood, and employment. Each topic is based on personal experiences growing up and the professional life he developed over time. Andrew also does professional development and continuing education courses for his communities.
A secondary service Andrew does is his contracting service. Contracting can consist of providing consultations to organization with their autism project, blog writing, video projects, and research projects. Some examples include Andrew’s work with Anderson Center for Autism, Children’s Hosptial of Philadelphia and Southern Connecticut State University. A third service Andrew does is his services with individuals who are learning to drive. His services include being a content creator on driving topics with creating handouts and infographics. His public speaking and contracting roles are in effect with his driving work. Andrew offers virtual consultations for individuals and families on establishing driver routines. Not only Andrew has those services, but his website also contains the advocacy work he has done on autism and learning how to drive. Learning to drive with limited resources inspired Andrew to pursue projects on making driving a legitimate topic to discuss for individuals transitioning into adult life. He ran several programs, including founding and running Driving with Autism for 2022. Finally, his page includes the massive Autism and Driving Resource Database. This database covers all 50 states of driving schools, adaptive programs and other resources that relate to learning how to drive. Andrew wants families and individuals to know that there is something out there and they are not alone. Professionally, Andrew has a background consisting of public school, private school, nonprofits, and online programs. Andrew is also certified through the International Board of Credentialing and Continuing Education Standards’ Autism Certification since August 14th, 2023. His current workplaces include FOCUS Center for Autism, Anderson Center for Autism, and the Children Hospital of Philadelphia. Andrew serves on the boards of Neurodiversity Employment Network and Disability Rights Connecticut. Andrew graduated from Manchester Community College with an associate degree as a Disability Specialist and Charter Oak State College with a bachelor’s degree in psychology. His Motivation? Andrew’s motivation is to not just improve the world one day at a time, but to show others that life is worth living. His adaptive work career allowed him to gain perspectives in not autistic self-advocates, but parents and professional circles as well. Collaboration is key to taking steps to solving issues in the communities like employment, transportation and transitioning to adulthood and beyond. His original focus evolved over the years from his learning to drive advocacy into using his experiences to provide public speaking services. It was the willingness to get himself out there and not fear the world. There are numerous internal and external barriers that exist for any individual and diving into them taught me resilience. This struggle helps me relate to others who have a hard time finding the individualized steps to reach their goals. It is why Andrew helps individuals find their own path to finding what works for them. After all, each autistic individual has their own needs, and those needs should be embraced. It is all a journey to embrace the world! What does he do for fun? When not at work, Andrew loves to drive around in both Connecticut and Massachusetts. His favorite places for travel are restaurants (Taffer’s Traven, Junior’s Restaurant), coffee shops, movie theaters, and work conferences. Andrew is a huge lover of iced coffee, which aids him for autism talks and related work. Andrew is also a lover of video games, and he is seen waiting for the next NieR title. |
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My Principles
Inspired by Jennifer Brunton’s autism books, I created these principles that I follow. There is divisiveness all around the autism community, including autistics vs each other, autistics vs professionals or parents. Or even parents' vs each other. I created this brand to not follow that destructive path and offer the polar opposite, collaborative efforts to promote serenity. When you are at a good place with your dreams, you will know how it will feel like.
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New downloadable eBook on Andrew's main services. This provides an overview of his professional history, speaking topics, FAQ, and testimonials.
Sky, the Mascot of the page!
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