Centering Disability: Neurodivergent Perspectives

Clara Chee (she/her), Team Lead, Equal Dreams

Clara is a Team Lead at Equal Dreams, where she fronts the design, development, and delivery of training curriculum on accessibility and disability inclusion. She has successfully run these programmes in-house with organisations and in public iterations, and has facilitated cross-disability groups of participants. These include Equal Dreams’ core programmes, such as Organising Accessible Events, Disability Inclusive Language, and programmes for accessibility professionals.

In leading the development of these programmes, Clara rigorously seeks to find a well-tuned balance between practical, applicable and locally-contextualised learnings, with a pedagogy that truly welcomes diverse learners and centers disabled lived experiences.

As a consultant, Clara partners with organisations to provide consultancy on inclusive design across spaces, policies, and programmes. She supports organisations with varying levels of resources and capacities in translating accessibility principles into sustainable practices, advising on both strategic direction and on-the-ground implementation.

As an accessibility specialist leading teams that provide Singapore Sign Language interpretation and speech-to-text interpretation, Clara brings together technical proficiency and reflective practice. Her professional experience spans the arts, international productions, overseas events, conferences, and higher education settings. These have allowed her to hone skills in advocating for raising accessibility standards in a range of environments, including those that are complex or high-stakes. She also mentors newer accessibility professionals entering the field, and is committed to growing both the capacity of the sector and the participation of disabled people within accessibility work itself.

Identifying as neurodivergent, Clara is guided by a commitment to co-creating inclusive spaces alongside fellow disabled individuals and allies. Her work is grounded in empathy, critical insight, and a strong belief that effective accessibility must be a collective approach to how we all think, plan, and act.

Minjie Tim (she/her), Trainer, Equal Dreams

Minjie began her journey into disability work as a Volunteer Researcher with the Disabled People’s Association (DPA), where she contributed to Singapore’s inaugural Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) Parallel Report submitted to the United Nations in 2019. 

She then went on to serve as the Accessibility Coordinator for “Activism in Crisis” — a social and environment justice virtual festival — supporting over 500 participants and 43 speakers. This role deepened her understanding of access coordination, encompassing both technical requirements and the relational work needed to support diverse access needs well.

At Equal Dreams, Minjie has been a key developer and trainer of core programmes such as Organising Accessible Events, Disability Inclusive Language, Inclusive Workplaces, and Neurodiversity Programmes. She has worked with participants from a wide range of contexts, from large institutions and corporate organisations to ground-up groups, and cross-disability groups. 

Her training approach is grounded in a deep belief in people’s capacity to pause, reflect, and become more discerning and critical — with the right nudge. Beyond meeting participants where they are, she challenges them to engage perspectives of disabled people at the margins, especially those whose voices are least heard. She deeply believes in a more expansive, justice-oriented understanding of disability that centres collective liberation rather than progress for a narrow few.

Alongside her training work, Minjie was previously an Accessibility Specialist with experience in Descriptive Transcripts, Visual Interpretation, Image Descriptions, Alt Text, Plain English, and Speech-to-Text Interpretation (STTI). She has both provided and coordinated STTI for events ranging from small workshops to international conferences, where she emphasised quality access through careful preparation, advocacy for interpreters’ needs, close collaboration with users, and post-event reflection to support long-term, trust-based partnerships.

Identifying as neurodivergent (Tourette’s), she holds an embodied understanding of access as relational, contextual and ongoing, and approaches disability as a fundamentally human experience — one that, when better understood and centred, benefits everyone.