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Unlock Your Freedom

Unlock Your Freedom

A guide to getting a NSW driver's licence while living with a disability Getting a driver’s licence is an important milestone in many young (and some older) people’s lives. It gives you freedom of movement and independence. If you’re living with a disability, a...

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Navigating NDIS Supports

Navigating NDIS Supports

Living with a disability, or caring for someone who does? If you’re in Australia, you’ve likely heard of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). The NDIS is a game changer, providing essential support services like physiotherapy, speech therapy, community...

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Parenting with a Disability

Parenting with a Disability

Deciding to have a child is one of the most important choices a person can make in life. And while it’s probably one of the more rewarding experiences you can have, it comes with daily struggles, ups and downs, and challenges. When you have a disability, having a...

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Borderline Personality Disorder

Borderline Personality Disorder

In life, we’re constantly doing the dance between controlling what we can to have a safe and stable life and accepting and learning to live with what we can’t control. In the area of disability, you don’t have much control over what disability you have, how you attain...

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Living with Dystonia

Living with Dystonia

Recently, there has been a greater push to have disability visible in the media and represented across the board in politics, entertainment, and the workplace. This is fantastic and we applaud this, but the types of disability we see in these spaces are usually the more widely known ones, such as Down’s Syndrome, Autism Spectrum Disorder and Multiple Sclerosis.

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Living with Multiple Sclerosis

Living with Multiple Sclerosis

Imagine you’ve had a fully functioning body for 35+ years and then one day, something doesn’t feel right. You lose sensation on one side; your vision blurs and you feel dizzy. It must be a pinched nerve, you assume. After a while, your body goes back to its normal...

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NAIDOC Week and disability

NAIDOC Week and disability

With NAIDOC week being celebrated on 3-10 July, this month, we’re taking a look at disability in Australia’s Indigenous communities. Disability affects the Indigenous population at almost two times the rate it does non-Indigenous Australians. This often comes with a...

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Empowering your child living with a disability

Empowering your child living with a disability

Children living with disabilities, whether mental or physical, are starting out in life with a few extra challenges. Not only because of their disability but also because of the stigma and stereotypes they are likely to experience throughout their life.

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Destigmatising Autism Spectrum Disorder

Destigmatising Autism Spectrum Disorder

As humans, it’s in our nature to fear the unknown, the unfamiliar, the different. If you go back to primitive times, that’s how we survived – by approaching anything we didn’t understand with caution. We no longer live in primitive times now, but that tendency has...

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