Autism Acceptance Festival 2025, March 24th-27th

      

Autism Acceptance Festival 2026       

      

Details of the upcoming Autism Acceptance Festival 2026 will be available soon. All updates will be posted here on the AAF Hub.

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 are continuing the work in preparation for application.

In 2025, we six higher education institutes were proud to work together again to host the Autism Acceptance Festival. Now in it's 4th year, this festival hosted a series of public-facing events that centred autistic people and promoted autism acceptance.

Autism Acceptance Festival 2025 festival graphic
Autism Acceptance Festival 2025 Resources
A list of resources that were identified as useful from issues that arose from panel discussions from the Autism Acceptance Festival 2025, including webinar recordings, can be found here.
Useful Resources
A list of resources that were identified as useful from issues that arose from panel discussions from the Autism Acceptance Festival 2025, as well as previous years' events, can be found here.