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Autism Acceptance Festival 2025, March 24th-27th

Soon you can see the free, online events that will take place between March 24th and 27th to celebrate the Autism Acceptance Festival. Details of registering for these events will be announced in the coming weeks.

DCU, NCI and ATU Sligo are, respectively, the first, second and third HEIs in Ireland to receive AsIAm designation as Autism Friendly HEIs. In 2024, CCT and DkIT both received their designations. NCAD is continuing the work in preparation for the application.

In 2025, we six higher education institutes are proud to work together again to host the second Autism Acceptance Festival, a series of public-facing events to centre autistic people and promote autism acceptance. All events will be online and free to attend. Further details will be announced in the coming weeks.

Useful Resources
A list of resources that were identified as useful from issues that arose from panel discussions from the Autism Acceptance Festival 2024, as well as previous years' events, can be found here.