Talking Disability

The latest health and disability news in Australia

The aim of the labour hire program is to provide valuable experience and skills to people with disability, while also encouraging businesses to hire people with disability. [Source: Shutterstock]

New program provides seasonal work for people with disability

Tags Employment Posted 9 months ago by Liz Alderslade

A new labour hire program for people with disability, called LabourIn, is launching at a high demand time of year, ju… Read more

Minister Stuart Robert's speech at the National Press Club last Thursday was to announce the future plans for the NDIS. [Source: Shutterstock]

Minister promises big future changes for the NDIS

Tags NDIS Accessibility Posted 9 months ago by Liz Alderslade

Minister for the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) Stuart Robert addressed the National Press Club in Canbe… Read more

The Community Forum in Adelaide on tuesday night was booked out by people with disability, friends and family, industry providers and advocates. [Source: Talking Disability]

Community shares anger and frustration with Government

Tags NDIS User Stories Advice Research Posted 10 months ago by Liz Alderslade

The Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability held their second Adela… Read more

The Giving it a Go trial aims to improve the understanding of the health condition of people with musculoskeletal disability. [Source: Shutterstock]

Trial into musculoskeletal disability receives $1.3 million in Federal funding

Tags Education Research Posted 10 months ago by Liz Alderslade

The Mitchell Institute at Victoria University has received $1.3 million of Federal Government funding to undertake a … Read more

Loren Swancutt, Head of Inclusive Schooling at Thuringowa State High School, believes mainstream schools can provide education to every child with disability. [Source: Disability Royal Commission]

ROYAL COMMISSION: Inclusive education works

Tags Education Advice Research Posted 10 months ago by Liz Alderslade

The final two days of the education hearings in Brisbane for the Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and E… Read more

President of the Queensland Teachers Union (QTU), Kevin Bates, fronted the Commission to explain the position of QTU on inclusive education. [Source: Disability Royal Commission]

ROYAL COMMISSION: Teachers are not trained in inclusive education

Tags Education Advice Research Posted 10 months ago by Liz Alderslade

Day two of the Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability heard from a… Read more

Commissioner Ronald Sackville stated that education was chosen as the first topic for the first hearing because of its importance to children with disability. [Source: Disability Royal Commission]

ROYAL COMMISSION: First hearings start with education inquiry

Tags Education Advice Research Posted 10 months ago by Liz Alderslade

The first day of the inaugural hearings for the Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of Pe… Read more

Taking place in Townsville, Queensland, this first week of the Disability Royal Commission hearings will look into the experiences of people with disability. [Source: Shutterstock]

A guide to the Disability Royal Commission

Tags Advice Posted 10 months ago by Liz Alderslade

The Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability has had its first set … Read more

A highlight of the Aged Care Royal Commission Interim Report was the unacceptable admission of younger people with disability into aged care. [Source: Shutterstock]

Younger people with disability need to be removed from aged care

Tags NDIS Accommodation Posted 10 months ago by Liz Alderslade

The Interim Report from the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety has recommended the removal of all you… Read more

Many families in the report expressed grief over the fact that most student feedback from teachers revolved around behaviour, rather than educational achievements. [Source: Shutterstock]

Report finds children with disability are being robbed of their education

Tags Education Posted 10 months ago by Liz Alderslade

A week out from the first Disability Royal Commission hearing, Children and Young People with Disability Australia (C… Read more

Elysia Connor (centre) with residents from Brightwater Oats Street Brain Injury Rehabilitation Centre undertaking this years HBF Run For a Reason. [Source: Brightwater]

Occupational Therapy Week celebrates the hard work of OT’s

Tags Therapies Posted 10 months ago

SPONSORED STORY - For this year’s Occupational Therapy Week, running from 21 to 27 October, Perth aged care and dis… Read more

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]

Disability Royal Commission first hearings announced

Tags Advice Research Posted 10 months ago by Liz Alderslade

The Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability has announced the start… Read more

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]

New book series explores diversity through art and storytelling

Tags Conditions Autism Education Posted 10 months ago by Liz Alderslade

A special diversity and inclusion book series, created by a mother of a child with disability and local Adelaide arti… Read more

International Developmental Language Disorder Awareness Day

Tags Conditions Education Posted 11 months ago by Liz Alderslade

Speech Pathology Australia is driving a national conversation around Developmental Language Disorders (DLD), which is… Read more

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]

New CEO of the NDIA board revealed

Tags NDIS Posted 11 months ago by Liz Alderslade

After nearly a six month vacancy, the new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the National Disability Insurance Agency (… Read more

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]

South Australia’s first totally accessible beach

Tags Accessibility Posted 11 months ago by Liz Aldeslade

The new Changing Places facility on Henley Beach, South Australia, has made the beach accessible 24/7 and provides sa… Read more

The new helpline, Autism Connect, will be able to provide independent, evidence-based information, resources and referral via telephone, email and web. [Source: Shutterstock]

Autism peak body’s helpline goes national

Tags NDIS Autism Posted 11 months ago by Liz Alderslade

Victorian autism advocacy group, Amaze, has received a grant from the Federal Government to run an information helpli… Read more

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]

New report recommends ways to support and improve the disability workforce

Tags Employment Research Posted 11 months ago by Liz Alderslade

A recently released report asks the Commonwealth Government led collaboration between disability service providers, t… Read more

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]

Proposed Religious Discrimination Bill may trump Disability Discrimination Act

Tags Mental Health Employment Advice Posted 11 months ago by Liz Alderslade

Equality advocates and disability peak bodies have raised concerns around the proposed Religious Discrimination Bill,… Read more

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]

NDIS uptake by people with psychosocial disability lower than expected

Tags NDIS Conditions Accessibility Posted 11 months ago by Liz Alderslade

A report from the National Mental Health Commission (NMHC) has highlighted that the Government isn’t doing enough t… Read more

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