Over 270 delegates came together for the 2025 conference of the Centre for Autism, Neuro-Developmental Disorders, and Intellectual Disability (CANDDID) to listen to national and international experts talk about ‘Health Inequalities and Neurodevelopmental Conditions’.
Keynote speeches and seminars covered a wide range of topics, including:
- Access to health and social care for children and young people with special educational needs and disability: reality and ways forward
- Access to healthcare for those from under-served and under-represented communities in the Northwest
- Reducing health inequalities in children with special educational needs and disability: a public health perspective
- Reducing mental health inequalities in autistic children and young people by improving access to therapeutic interventions
- Avoidable mortality and health inequalities in autistic people
- Barriers to healthcare for people with intellectual disability from ethnic backgrounds
- Intersectionality and neurodiversity: impact of health inequalities
Professor Sujeet Jaydeokar, Academic Chair CANDDID, and Director of Research at Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust said:
“Thank you to of the delegates who attended the sixth CANDDID Conference.
“This year we have focused on health inequalities and neurodevelopmental conditions, which are very important areas when considering the outcomes faced by neurodiverse people.
"Our aim is to gather professionals worldwide to highlight key issues and encourage collaboration and the sharing of best practices.”
Hear from some our speakers and delegates from CANDDID Conference 2025
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- CANDDID Conference 2024 - ‘Meeting the needs of children and young people with neurodevelopmental conditions and their families’
- CANDDID Conference 2023 - 'Autism and Neurodevelopmental Conditions: advances in our understanding and management'.
- CANDDID Conference 2022 - ‘Learning Disabilities – Advances in Neurosciences and Therapeutic Interventions’.
- CANDDID Conference 2021 - 'ADHD and other Neurodevelopmental Disorders'.
- CANDDID Conference 2019 - 'Autism Spectrum Conditions'
