In Australia, there are about 400,000 people with intellectual disability – that’s about two in every 100 Australians. Intellectual disability doesn’t often receive a lot of attention when we talk…
Posted In: #133 Autumn 2018, Disability Issues, Health Services,
The Australian Network on Disability provides the following statistics on their website to help people understand the scale of disability in our community. By July 2019, the NDIS expects to…
Posted In: #133 Autumn 2018, Disability – National Disability Insurance Scheme, Disability Issues,
Inclusion of children with developmental delay and / or disability is not an optional extra - inclusion is a human right. Emma Pierce explains inclusion is much more than just…
Posted In: #131 Summer 2017, Disability – National Disability Insurance Scheme, Disability Issues, Disability Services, Education, Human Service Delivery, Planning for People and Social Issues,
People with disability from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds make up only a small proportion of people who are currently disability service recipients. Diana Qian argues greater resources are…
Posted In: #131 Summer 2017, CALD Communities, Disability – National Disability Insurance Scheme, Disability Issues, Human Service Delivery, Planning for People and Social Issues,
According to the NSW Law Reform Commission more than a third of people appearing before NSW Local Courts may have a cognitive disability. Susan Beggs explores the sociological risk factors…
Posted In: #131 Summer 2017, Disability Issues, Judicial System, Mental Health, Planning for People and Social Issues,
When a child has a disability and/or developmental delay, Emma Pierce explains that transition to school requires additional time, planning and collaboration from all involved in the child’s life.
Posted In: #131 Summer 2017, Disability – National Disability Insurance Scheme, Disability Issues, Disability Services, Education, Human Service Delivery, Planning for People and Social Issues,
Over six years with our more than 163,000 supporters, Every Australian Counts has lobbied, campaigned and advocated for the NDIS. Andrew Gibson explains that now the NDIS has started Every…
Posted In: #131 Summer 2017, Disability – National Disability Insurance Scheme, Disability Issues, Human Service Delivery, Planning for People and Social Issues,
Challenging Disabling Images has been an ongoing issue as this month’s from the vault shows. We have struggled with it in preparing the cover for this issue. The usual physical…
Posted In: #131 Summer 2017, Disability Issues, From the Vault, Inner Sydney Voice – ISRCSD, Planning for People and Social Issues,Inner Sydney Voice continues to play a role with the Aged and Disability sectors through the Sector Support & Development Project in Eastern Sydney which supports the Commonwealth Home Support…
Posted In: #130 Spring 2016, Ageing, Celebrating 40 years, Disability Issues, Disability Services, Inner Sydney Voice – ISRCSD, Planning for People and Social Issues,