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Allison Davies, BMus, B.Ed.,

Name: Australian Conference for Neurodevelopmental Disorders
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Autism

Keynote: Autistic culture and the use of music as a regulatory tool

Presenting in-person

Allison holds a Bachelor of Music and Bachelor of Teaching (University of New England, 2003), a Master of Music Therapy (University of Queensland, 2005) and Neurologic Music Therapy training (Academy of Neurologic Music Therapy, 2016). A former Registered Music Therapist of 16 years, Alli left the Allied Health industry in 2021 to align her work more deeply with culturally responsive practices and to switch her focus from individual change to socio cultural change.

Alli is an autistic person with attention, sensory processing and executive functioning differences. She works within a neuro-affirming framework that favours deep acceptance and regulation over assimilation and intervention, and shares her lived experience of autism openly within her seminars, workshops and conferences as part of her ‘emotive storytelling mixed with science’ approach to education.

In 2016 Alli was named a ‘National AMP Tomorrow Maker’ for her contribution to supporting Australian families through her 2 day workshop, Brains = Behaviours. As an online course, Brains = Behaviours has impacted over 2000 families. In 2018 she founded A Gathering of Voices, an online membership for adults aiming to self-regulate through therapeutic based music experiences. In 2024 Alli was awarded the Telstra Best of Business Award for Lutruwita/Tasmania. She is a regular contributor to online network ParentTV, and radio station ‘Vision Australia’.

She lives in the rainforest of Lutruwita/Tasmania, with her husband and 2 children, where she enjoys the beach, the bush and baths.