Blog - People with Disability Australia

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They’re denying us a basic human right, and that will never be okay

I eventually won the fight to get the provisions I needed, but the road was convoluted and demeaning, writes Hannah Diviney.

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Accessible education should be the norm, not the alternative

I don’t think I will ever be able to describe what it meant to me, the first time a teacher asked “What can I do to make this easier for you, to support you?” That should be the norm, writes Issy Hay.

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Adventures of the boy who was told he’d never speak

For year 7, I started at a little school in the NSW outback with an enrolment of 150 students from K-12. At first, there were no problems, then things started to go wrong, writes William McIntosh.

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Bad medication

A bad experience with medication can leave lasting trauma and close us off to truly helpful and positive use later, writes Ashley Waite.

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Visits to the hospital

As an autistic, mentally ill, transgender person with disability, Pippin Latham shares some experiences receiving medical care in hospital.

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I used to know and love, my mind

Musician and writer, Heidi Everett, shares her experiences of psychotropic medications and hospital admission.

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Supporting our support workers

Interacting with people when a person has COVID-19 may become unavoidable if there’s no alternative arrangements. For many people with disability, isolation is not an option, writes Claudia Forsberg.

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Welcome to my world

There is an aversion of gaze, amongst even the most socially aware able-bodied journalists, concerning the discrimination people with disability live with every day writes Kate Hood.

When the government asked people to wear masks

As a proud member of the deaf community, Charbel Zada shares his frustration with some government policies that negatively impact people with disability.

5 isolation challenges of a COVID-19 high-risker

As someone at high-risk of dying from the virus (aka ‘high-risker’), I’m over here fighting for my rights to information, healthcare, supplies and to have a say, writes Carlie Park.

Category: Blog (page 13)

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They’re denying us a basic human right, and that will never be okay

Accessible education should be the norm, not the alternative

Adventures of the boy who was told he’d never speak

Bad medication

Visits to the hospital

I used to know and love, my mind

Supporting our support workers

Welcome to my world

When the government asked people to wear masks

5 isolation challenges of a COVID-19 high-risker