Before your presentation:

• You should use the same title submitted with your abstract and the presenters name on your opening slide.
• Communicate your work in an accessible way. The audience will be neurodiverse and from a variety of backgrounds e.g. research, education, practitioner etc.
• Provide appropriate context to ensure an international audience can follow your paper content.
• You should provide content that clearly addresses the theme of the Congress: Quality of Life.
• Presentations should be conducted in English.
• We strongly recommend that slides are prepared in PowerPoint. Other software packages are acceptable as long as the presentation is a PDF and saved in landscape orientation and complies with the widescreen (16:9) format.

When you arrive at the congress venue:

• There is no requirement to submit your presentation ahead of time. All presentations must be brought to the congress venue on a USB-key and uploaded with the technicians in the “Speaker Ready Room” in the Main Hall of the RDS, the congress venue.  We ask that you do this at least 4 hours before your presentation is due to take place to ensure adequate time for your presentation to be uploaded to your room.
• Please note technicians cannot upload presentations during sessions, so presenters should upload during breaks and lunchtimes only.

During your presentation:

• Please arrive in your room at least 15 minutes before your session is due to start to meet your chairperson, room manager and ensure your presentation is loaded in the room.
• Each session will last 60 minutes and will include up to 4 paper presentations.
• Oral presentations must last no more than a maximum of 12 minutes to allow for 3 minutes for questions, and a handover to the next speaker, within each 15 minutes slot.
• Session chairs will keep strict time and will terminate any presentation that goes beyond the allowed time. This is essential, in order to keep parallel sessions synchronised so that delegates may move between sessions.
• Presenters must use the computer provided by the conference centre: it is not possible to present from a personal computer.
• All presentations will be managed by the venue technicians in the room you are presenting in.
• Comfort monitors will be placed in front of the podium in the Shelbourne Hall 2, Concert Hall, Serpentine Hall 3, Clyde Hall 6 & Merrion Room. The Minerva has a laptop at the lectern only.
• All of the projection screens in the venue are 16:9 format (widescreen).
• All rooms have a clicker/pointer.
• While complimentary wi-fi is available through-out the venue, we suggest that presenters should not rely on internet access during their presentation. Therefore, we recommend to embed all fonts and media within the presentation file, to not use Google Slides and do not rely on online materials, media, web pages, live demos, etc.
• There will be a room manager and/or volunteer assigned to each room to assist speakers, so if you have any difficulties during your presentation, please let them know and they will be happy to help.

Points to note:

• We hope that the congress will offer practical information for attendees. We ask that your presentation highlights the practical implications of your work for autistic people.
• You will likely be presenting alongside colleagues and professionals who are autistic. Autistic people will also be attending your talk. Please be mindful that the language used in your presentation is respectful.
• When trying to judge what is respectful, it can be helpful to imagine how language might sound in another context, such as in reference to another historically marginalised group. For example, we would not say that someone is “at risk of being born female” therefore is it appropriate to say that someone is “at risk of being born autistic.
• A word on language: We recognise that many people will be presenting in a language that is not their first language; that the terminology around autism is continually evolving; and that different countries and organisations have different histories that will inform the way we talk about autism and autistic people. Our aim is to create a space where we can work together with kindness and understanding to create a dialogue and language that respects and accepts autistic people and supports autistic people to flourish. It is in this spirit that we provide a language guide based on community preferences and current thinking in an Irish context: LINK