EDUCATION NEWS | TALKING DISABILITY
![<p>Elysia Connor (centre) with residents from Brightwater Oats Street Brain Injury Rehabilitation Centre undertaking this years HBF Run For a Reason. [Source: Brightwater]</p>](https://agedcareguide-assets.imgix.net/news/articles/news/articles/IMGP0842_191024_024714.JPG?fm=pjpg)
Occupational Therapy Week celebrates the hard work of OT’s
SPONSORED STORY – For this year’s Occupational Therapy Week, running from 21 to 27 October, Perth aged care and... Read more
![<p>The first round of hearings will focus on education and examine existing policies and procedures, with a focus on the Queensland Government’s education system. [Source: Shutterstock]</p>](https://agedcareguide-assets.imgix.net/news/articles/news/articles/shutterstock_185379551.jpg?fm=pjpg)
Disability Royal Commission first hearings announced
The Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability has announced the start of... Read more
![<p>The first book of the series, Hello To Me, and is about Joanne, who is nonverbal and living with disabilities and her friendships with children who live with disability. [Source: Let’s Be Friends]</p>](https://agedcareguide-assets.imgix.net/news/articles/news/articles/Pic_4.jpeg?fm=pjpg)
New book series explores diversity through art and storytelling
A special diversity and inclusion book series, created by a mother of a child with disability and local Adelaide... Read more
![<p>Today is International Developmental Language Disorder Awareness Day. [Source: Shutterstock]</p>](https://agedcareguide-assets.imgix.net/news/articles/news/articles/shutterstock_173836202-1.jpg?fm=pjpg)
International Developmental Language Disorder Awareness Day
Speech Pathology Australia is driving a national conversation around Developmental Language Disorders (DLD), which is a... Read more
![<p>Martin Hoffman will be managing the NDIA’s National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) for a three year tenure, starting his time in office on 4 November, 2019. {Source: Twitter] </p>](https://agedcareguide-assets.imgix.net/news/articles/news/articles/CYwBWUzs_200x200.jpg?fm=pjpg)
New CEO of the NDIA board revealed
After nearly a six month vacancy, the new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the National Disability Insurance Agency... Read more
![<p>One in five people in the City of Charles Sturt has a mobility issue, which is why it became a long term plan of the council to make the 12-kilometre coastline strip inclusive. [Source: Shutterstock]</p>](https://agedcareguide-assets.imgix.net/news/articles/news/articles/shutterstock_1516976093.jpg?fm=pjpg)
South Australia’s first totally accessible beach
The new Changing Places facility on Henley Beach, South Australia, has made the beach accessible 24/7 and provides safe... Read more
![<p>The new helpline, Autism Connect, will be able to provide independent, evidence-based information, resources and referral via telephone, email and web. [Source: Shutterstock]</p>](https://agedcareguide-assets.imgix.net/news/articles/news/articles/shutterstock_1343411174.jpg?fm=pjpg)
Autism peak body’s helpline goes national
Victorian autism advocacy group, Amaze, has received a grant from the Federal Government to run an information helpline... Read more
![<p>Casual work arrangements receives response from people with disabilities who need flexible services, but it does disincentivise retention of quality staff who want job security. [Source: Shutterstock]</p>](https://agedcareguide-assets.imgix.net/news/articles/news/articles/shutterstock_459232261-1.jpg?fm=pjpg)
New report recommends ways to support and improve the disability workforce
A recently released report asks the Commonwealth Government led collaboration between disability service providers,... Read more
![<p>People with Disability Australia (PWDA) is deeply concerned with any Bill that infringes on the current protections in place for people with disability. [Source: Shutterstock]</p>](https://agedcareguide-assets.imgix.net/news/articles/news/articles/shutterstock_582915355.jpg?fm=pjpg)
Proposed Religious Discrimination Bill may trump Disability Discrimination Act
Equality advocates and disability peak bodies have raised concerns around the proposed Religious Discrimination Bill,... Read more
![<p>Only 25,192 people with psychosocial disability have accessed the NDIS (9 percent of all people on the NDIS), with the original estimated uptake set at 64,000 by full roll out. [Source: Shutterstock]</p>](https://agedcareguide-assets.imgix.net/news/articles/news/articles/shutterstock_571880827.jpg?fm=pjpg)
NDIS uptake by people with psychosocial disability lower than expected
A report from the National Mental Health Commission (NMHC) has highlighted that the Government isn’t doing enough to... Read more