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Supporting You – Supporting Students

Australian Disability Clearinghouse on Education and Training (ADCET)
Wednesday 1st January, 2014
This clearing house facilitate successful outcomes and improved educational experience for students with disability by providing information, advice and resources to disability practitioners, academics, teachers and students on inclusive practices
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Voice at the Table

Self Advocacy Resource Unit (SARU)
Monday 1st October, 2018
The resources developed as part of this project provide practical consumer participation information, ideas and resources which can be used by service providers, governments and community organisations to ensure people
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Expecting autistic people to ‘fit in’ is cruel and unproductive; value us for our strengths

Peter Sun San Wong
The Conversation
Tuesday 30th October, 2018
Just 16% of adults with autism are in full-time paid employment, and this situation is not improving. The Economist has described this as “a tragic toll, as millions of people
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Wheelchair diving artist transforming preconceptions around disability

Zoe Ferguson and Maisie Cohen
ABC News
Friday 19th October, 2018
Acclaimed British performance and installation artist Sue Austin is pushing the boundaries of what's possible for those living with a disability.
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Ouch: Disability Talk Podcast

BBC Radio
Thursday 1st March, 2018
Interviews and discussion with a personal and often humorous touch. With guest presenters plus Kate Monaghan and the Ouch blog team. Ouch is available exclusively online.
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What to do when your kid stares at people with disabilities

Michelle Woo
Lifehacker Australia
Thursday 4th October, 2018
Kids are naturally curious — this is a wonderful thing. But they also haven’t mastered social cues. This can make parents uncomfortable. What’s painful for disabled kids, and therefore for
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Products mocked as “lazy” or “useless” are often important tools for people with disabilities

S.E. Smith
Vox
Thursday 20th September, 2018
Unwittingly, critics of “useless products” are sitting at the core of a battle the disability community has been engaged in for decades: The right to live in their communities, and
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The use of disabled people as ‘inspiration’ is terribly dated

Louise Bruton
Irish Times
Tuesday 18th September, 2018
Having written about my disability publicly for the guts of nine years, I’ve come to learn that, under the guise of inclusivity, there’s also tokenism and the act of being
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Sex, technology and disability – it’s complicated

Phillippa Carnemolla
The Conversation
Thursday 30th August, 2018

People living with disability are largely excluded from conversationsabout sexuality, and face overlapping barriers to sexual expression that are both social and physical.

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We can all help to improve communication for people with disabilities

Bronwyn Hemsley, Harmony Turnbull, Joanne Steel, Lucy Bryant, Melissa Brunner
The Conversation
Tuesday 28th August, 2018
Around 5% of the population, or 1.2 million Australians have a communication disability. Communication disability can arise if a person has a health condition affecting their speech, language, listening, understanding,
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Dylan Alcott Doesn’t Follow His Destiny, He Shapes It

Dan Williams
Men's Health Magazine
Wednesday 11th July, 2018
“I spent the first three-and-a-half years of my life in hospital but the best thing my family did was never to wrap me in cotton wool,” says Alcott, who on
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Australia ‘discriminating’ against blind and visually impaired TV audiences

christopher Knaus
The Guardian
Thursday 24th May, 2018
The government’s failure to roll out technology that enables television access for 450,000 blind or visually impaired Australians appears to breach anti-discrimination laws, according to the disability commissioner.
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