12 – 14 November 2025
Aerial Function Centre Sydney
Registration & Call for Abstracts Open
Submit your abstract by Friday, 18 April 2025. Find out more HERE.
ASID 2025 Conference: Learning from the Past, Shaping the Future
The 2025 ASID conference brings together a wide range of people interested in furthering the rights and improving the quality of life of people with intellectual disabilities. They include, researchers, advocates, policymakers, service providers, families and self-advocates with intellectual disabilities.
Over three days it will be a place to share new research, discuss ideas and hear about new service and policy developments.
The program will include research papers, policy commentaries, reports of lived experiences and accounts of innovative services.
There will be invited speakers and panel discussions as well as papers selected through the open call for abstracts.
The keynotes will consider:
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- interventions to support well- being of young adults with intellectual disabilities and autism
- the progress of deinstitutionalisation
This conference marks the 60th anniversity of ASID and celebrates 70 years of advocacy by Inclusion Australia
Conference Artwork – Patterns of Best Life
Our 2025 Conference brand is based on an artwork created by Bridget Kelly called “Patterns of Best Life”.
About the Artwork:
Not so long ago people with intellectual disability were literally locked away.
Even after institutions closed people faced many hurdles and barriers to inclusion and access to care. Today we know it is people’s human right to be included, and, combined with raised expectations and access to individualised care, people can, often for the first time, live their best life.
About Bridget:
Bridget Kelly is an abstract colourist with a chromosome to spare. She exhibits regularly. Check her socials @itsbridgetkelly www.Bridgetkellyart.com
Australasian Society for Intellectual Disability
ASID is a peak body in intellectual disability research in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand. Research gives us good evidence. Good evidence helps to make good policy and practice. Good policy and practice help people with intellectual disabilities to have good lives.
