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Your Next Chapter Awaits: Transitioning to Life After High School
The journey from high school to the next phase of life can be challenging for anyone. Not only are you leaving the safe known world of the school environment, but you now have to start making choices that will affect your adult life. If you have a disability, you may...
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...
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...
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...
Uncovering the Mystery of Epilepsy
Around 250,000 people in Australia are living with epilepsy at the moment, which equates to more than 1% of the population and about 1 in every 3 people.
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...
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.
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...
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...
Advance Disability: Men’s Health Week
In light of Men’s Health Week, we’re focusing on men’s matters and the challenges facing men in general and specifically, men with disabilities.
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.
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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