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Living with a Disability
- Mental health website for people with intellectual disability created with help of those with lived experience (Aug '20)
- ‘I’m scared’: parents of children with disability struggle to get the basics during coronavirus (May '20)
- ‘There have always been barriers for us’: how Covid-19 has further isolated deaf Australians (may '20)
- Vulnerable children and carers suffer as coronavirus pandemic makes accessing support tougher (Apr '20)
- Mums with an intellectual disability already risk family violence and losing their kids. Coronavirus could make things worse (Apr '20)
- Joint Statement: Increase Disability Support Pension Now To Deal With Coronavirus (Mar '20)
- 'Dying in poverty’: disability pensioners left out of boosted welfare payments fear for future (Mar '20)
- Australians with disabilities missing out on essential services as Covid-19 crisis escalates (Mar '20)
- The experiences of people with disabilities show we need a new understanding of urban safety (Feb '20)
- CapTel text-captioned telephones will not work as of February in blow for Australia's deaf community (Jan '20)
- Ellie Simmonds: ‘Going into Rio, swimming for me had been life or death’ (Jan '20)
- Autism to ADHD: thinking differently about recruitment (Feb '20)
- Netflix show Atypical and Rain Man don't tell the real story of living with autism (Jan '20)
- Four things students with vision impairment want you (their teachers and friends) to know (Jun '19)
- Some diseases, like mine, deteriorate rapidly – disability services need to keep up (Nov '18)
- Expecting autistic people to ‘fit in’ is cruel and unproductive; value us for our strengths (Oct '18)
- Housing and Indigenous people living with a disability: lived experiences of housing and community infrastructure (Feb '16)
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Disability - Work
- Companies might be hiring workers with a disability to 'tick a box' before moving them on (Mar '20)
- Activ Esperance closure leaves 17 people with a disability out of work and families left 'dumbfounded' (Mar '20)
- Autism to ADHD: thinking differently about recruitment (Feb '20)
- How neurodiversity is driving innovation from unexpected places (May '19)
- Autistic Australians are being locked out of the workforce (Mar '19)
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Disability - Education
- Only one fifth of school students with disability had enough support during the remote learning period (Jul '20)
- Parents of children with disabilities are struggling to teach their children during COVID-19 (May '20)
- Excluded and refused enrolment: report shows illegal practices against students with disabilities in Australian schools (Oct '19)
- Happy birthday, Braille: how writing you can touch is still helping blind people to read and learn (Jan '18)
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Abuse & Discrimination
- When The Government Asked People To Wear Masks, There Was No Consideration Given To Those Who Are Hard Of Hearing (Sep '20)
- Cate was expelled in year 2. Her parents took the school to court (Jun '20)
- Disability workers caring for suspected coronavirus patients ask for pay rise (May '20)
- NDIS providers used unauthorised restraints more than 65,000 times, watchdog reports (May '20)
- SA Police investigating death of woman in 'disgusting and degrading circumstances' (may '20)
- People with cognitive disability shouldn’t be in prison because they’re ‘unfit to plead’. There are alternatives (Feb '20)
- Disability carer accused of filming himself abusing adults and children (may '20)
- People with disability say COVID-19 is pushing up costs, but they can't get Coronavirus Supplement (Apr '20)
- CapTel text-captioned telephones will not work as of February in blow for Australia's deaf community (Jan '20)
- Federal funding cut a threat to hearing impaired phone transcriptions, providers say (Apr '19)
- How neurodiversity is driving innovation from unexpected places (May '19)
- Concerns raised after girl with autism placed in cardboard 'box' enclosure in classroom (Sep '18)
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Disability Royal Commission
- Covid-19 terrifies Australians with disabilities, who feel they are 'expendable' (Aug '20)
- Being Aboriginal with a disability a 'double whammy', royal commission told (Feb '20)
- ‘Mum, I want to go home’: parents say health system is failing disabled children (Feb '20)
- Australian law allows disabled people to be 'chemically castrated', inquiry hears (Dec '19)
- Many in fear in disability group homes (Dec '19)
- Disability royal commission: girl with Asperger's hid in garbage bin to avoid bullying (Nov '19)
- Disability inquiry begins with harrowing stories, but advocates fear it isn’t equipped to succeed (Nov '19)
- Why schools desperately need a royal commission into the abuse of disabled people (Feb '19)
- Young people with disabilities still living in aged care (Jul ’20)
- Disability in the Bush app aims to make NDIS more accessible in remote communities (Jun ’20)
- Delivering the NDIS: annual price review leads to simpler, more flexible scheme (Jun ’20)
- Autism review concerns NDIS users (Jun ’20)
- The death of Ann Marie Smith: a shocking case of neglect, or a failure of the system? (may ’20)
- David Harris was left to die alone after his NDIS payments were cut off (may ’20)
- Kiwi left paralysed in freak accident faces deportation from Australia, ripping his family apart (may ’20)
- Decision to limit NDIS transport funding reversed by government (feb ’20)
- 'These children are in limbo': the New Zealanders locked out of Australia's NDIS (Feb '20)
- Yes, the system needs to be better. But here’s how to ensure your child can access the NDIS if they need it (Feb '20)
- Ministers accuse federal government of prioritising budget surplus over NDIS (Feb '20)
- Children's access to disability funding depending on where they live dubbed 'developmental apartheid' (Feb '20)
- It’s hard for people with severe mental illness to get in the NDIS – and the problems don’t stop there (Jan '20)
- NDIS watchdog is fielding nearly 100 allegations of abuse or neglect a week (Jan '20)
- NDIS minister claims no one has died waiting for the scheme, despite agency revealing 1,279 deaths (Jan '20)
- National disability insurance scheme confusing and causing some to miss out on support, review finds (Jan '20)
- The land the NDIS forgot: the remote Indigenous communities losing the postcode lottery (Nov '19)
- 2019 Federal Budget … There are a number of things in the Budget that are important for people with disability (Nov '19)
- Women, rural and disadvantaged Australians may be missing out on care in the NDIS (Jul '19)
- How to improve the NDIS for people who have an intellectual disability as well as a mental illness (Oct '18)
- The NDIS is delivering ‘reasonable and necessary’ supports for some, but others are missing out (Oct '18)
- Five years on, NDIS is getting young people out of aged care, but all too slowly (Jan '18)
- Understanding the NDIS: many eligible people with disabilities are likely to miss out (Jul '16) Number of articles:
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Disability Organisations & Resources
Children and Young People with a Disability Australia * Understand NDIS demand in your area * (NDIS) - Child Protection and Family support * People with Disabilities Australia Australian Government Disability Advocacy Finder Ticket to Work * NDS (Ticket to Work) * 'Please Offer Me a Seat Project' Amaze (Autism) * Autistic Nick *