Dr. Rosaleen McDonagh:

Intersectionality will get the best out of our services if we include disability-proofing and ethnic identifiers. That is the roadmap for our future infrastructure. The UNCRPD, which I never miss an opportunity to mention, is, as we all know, the architecture of how autistic and disabled people live our lives. If they cannot tick a box on the census about autism, how can we develop appropriate services? How can we envision the fruitful empowerment of our autistic children? We do not see the future if we have no ethnic identifiers or disability-proofing across all our policies.