OCALI Awards recognize and celebrate the achievements, contributions, and impact of leaders, pioneers, and champions whose efforts help support and improve outcomes for people with autism, sensory disabilities, and low-incidence disabilities.
Award recipients demonstrate significant personal achievements and accomplishments, strong leadership skills and abilities, innovative ideas, practices, and solutions, effective collaboration and mentoring efforts, and overall impact on systems and communities.
Want to browse the names of past recipients? View our list of winners since 2013, when OCALI Awards were first presented.
Nominations for the 2026 OCALI Awards are now closed. Thank you to everyone who submitted a nomination. The award recipients will be notified prior to the conference.