PAST EVENTS
Profound autism. Real strategy. Practical support.
Hey! I'm Sarah
I’m Sarah Kernion—writer, speaker, and mother to two children with profound, nonspeaking autism.
INCHSTONES helps mothers and audiences navigate disorientation with more clarity, steadiness, and strategy.
The IEP Power Plan helps mothers and caregivers prepare for the IEP room with more clarity, confidence, and practical strategy.
My keynote speaking helps organizations and audiences understand adaptive strategy through the lens of profound autism, caregiving, and what it takes to reorient when life changes completely.
I created INCHSTONES because too much of the conversation leaves out the families living the most intensive realities—and too much of the world misunderstands what real adaptation actually requires.
INCHSTONES exists to make that reality more visible, more understood, and more useful to the people who need it most.
Every child, no matter how they communicate, is whole, worthy, and deserving of joy, respect, and possibility.
The lived experience of mothers and caregivers is real expertise.
Profound autism belongs at the center of the conversation, not at the edges.
And the smallest moments of connection, trust, expression, and growth, the INCHSTONES, are sacred.
- Understand profound autism with more honesty and depth
- Recognize communication beyond speech
- Move toward radical acceptance
- Navigate systems with more clarity
- Treat caregiver wellbeing as essential, not optional
My work is rooted in lived experience and shaped by the realities of profound, nonspeaking autism.
I speak and write about what too often gets flattened or left out entirely: communication beyond speech, invisible caregiver labor, system strain, dignity, love, exhaustion, and the inch-by-inch progress that outsiders often miss.
"Sarah resonates"
“Sarah hosted a session around raising children with autism in partnership with our Families Employee Resource group and she was incredible! Her vulnerability, optimism, energy and honesty in sharing her story helped our entire family's community stop and celebrate the 'inchstones'! The audience was so engaged and shared messages of love, tears, and she helped to create an environment where others were comfortable in sharing their stories and building community. Sarah's mission to help others through sharing her experience truly resonated with our family's community and are so grateful we had the opportunity to learn from her.”
Beth Lux, Manager of Customer Success, LinkedIn
