Autism Professionals in this domain deliver or coordinate the medical, behavioral, and rehabilitative care that shapes health and functional outcomes for autistic individuals across the lifespan. They include primary care physicians, psychiatrists, nurse practitioners, behavioral health clinicians, occupational therapists, speech-language pathologists, rehabilitation specialists, and others whose clinical work centers on autism.

If autism is the population at the heart of your clinical practice, you belong here.

Autism Professionals in this domain determine what autism services are funded, how they are structured, and what scales within health and social systems. They include insurance leaders, value-based care designers, policy architects, Medicaid waiver designers, and others whose decisions directly shape what is possible for autistic individuals and their families at a systems level. NSAP is where those decisions are informed by the autism field itself, rather than by interests outside of the field.

If policy and financing decisions you make are shaped by autism, you belong here.

Autism Professionals in this domain shape how work is structured, accessed, and experienced, with a specific understanding that building effective workplaces demands more than general awareness. It requires fluency in how autism shapes the experience of work and the expertise to build organizations where autistic employees thrive. They include organizational psychologists, human resource leaders, talent architects, learning and development professionals, workplace technologists, and others doing exactly that work.

If autism drives how you think about workplace design and organizational culture, you belong here.

Autism Professionals in this domain are building what the field needs but formal systems have not yet produced. They include technology developers, platform builders, content creators, methodology innovators, entrepreneurs launching autism-focused businesses, coaches who have built independent practices and proprietary approaches, and others whose work is expanding the boundaries of what the autism field can do and how it is understood.

If you are creating something the autism field needs, you belong here.

Autism Professionals in this domain generate the evidence that the autism field depends on. They include clinical researchers, implementation scientists, workforce economists, measurement and methodology experts, and others who investigate what works for autistic individuals and families, for whom, and under what conditions. NSAP's Standards Engine is built on their work, and that work is stronger when connected to the full breadth of the field it serves.

If autism is the subject of the evidence that you generate and the questions you pursue, you belong here.

Autism Professionals in this domain prepare autistic individuals for participation in school, work, and community life across developmental stages, and prepare the professionals who serve them. They include K-12 educators, postsecondary faculty, continuing education leaders, education administrators, job coaches, and others whose educational work is shaped by the needs of autistic learners and the professionals supporting them.

If autism is central to how you think about learning, development, and workforce preparation, you belong here.

Autism Professionals in this domain define, interpret, and enforce the rights, protections, and access that autistic individuals and their families depend on. They include disability rights attorneys, special education attorneys, employment and benefits attorneys, advocacy experts and organizations, public affairs professionals, and others whose legal and advocacy work is grounded in the autism community.

Your work is foundational to the autism field. If autism is the community whose rights and access you fight for, you belong here.