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Fringe event: Theme: Accessibility and wellbeing
What is a Fringe event?
Fringe events are often more interactive, community-driven, and accessible, providing a platform for diverse voices and ideas.
In this case,the fringe event at the 14th Autism Europe International Congress 2025 allowsfor a deeper exploration of Autistic professional voices and needs, creating aspace for meaningful dialogue and advocacy.
Event Title: Achieving Access, Agency and Wellbeing
Event Purpose: The purpose of this event is to amplify professional voices within the Autistic community, by addressing stigma, improving quality of life, and supporting advocacy for autistic adults
Location: Royal College of Surgeons, Dublin,Ireland.
Cheyne Lecture Theatre, Ground Floor 123 St Stephen’s Green
Date: Friday 12th September 2025
Time: 1:30 – 2:30pm
Panel Composition:
The panel chair is Dr. Magda Mostafa. Magda is a professor of Design in the Architecture Department at The American University in Cairo (AUC), where she leads design studio II, which focuses on the vocabulary of contemporary Egyptian architecture. She is also currently the co-director of the UNESCO-UIA education commission and validation council, which is a global think-tank tasked with setting architectural education policies and practices as well as upholding threshold standards of excellence.
Sue Fletcher-Watson holds a Personal Chair in Developmental Psychology at the University of Edinburgh. Sue is currently Director of the Salvesen Mindroom Research Centre and Dean of Equity Inclusion and Community in the College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine.
Dr Mary Doherty is an Irish Consultant Anaesthetist and Clinical Associate Professor at the School of Medicine, University College Dublin. She is also Honorary Associate Professor at the University of Exeter and Honorary Clinical Research Fellow at Brighton and Sussex Medical School.
Maja Toudal is an Autistic and ADHD psychologist, speaker, and author from Denmark. Maja takes a neuro-affirmative approach in her work as a clinician and educator, acknowledging each person’s strengths and resources, as well as the real-life challenges that may require adaptive strategies for the individual.
Dr. Waisman is an Indigenous Pasifika, South Asian and Asian non-binary person who was late-diagnosed as Autistic at 48-years-old.TC co-founded the Autistic Researchers Committee at the International Society for Autism Research (INSAR) and became a founding editorial board member of the journal Autism in Adulthood with an Impact Factor of 9.5.
Kara Dymond, OCT, Ph.D, is a late-diagnosed autistic/ADHD advocate, author, educator, presenter, and award-winning teacher educator from Canada. Kara is an experienced teacher whose work supporting autistic students inspired her books The Autism Lens and Creating a Neurodiversity-Affirming Classroom: Easy Ways to Achieve Access, Agency and Wellbeing for All.
