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A directory of helpful links and additional resources to help improve your disability confidence.
The barriers to becoming a doctor with quadriplegia – Dr Dinesh Palipana
Young People Talk Accessibility
The Truth About Growing Up Disabled – Dylan Alcott
How much do you know about Intellectual Disabilities? – Matthew Williams
I have one more chromosome than you. So what? – Karen Gaffney
Inspiration porn and the objectification of disability: Stella Young
What it’s like to walk down a street when you have autism or an ASD – Anonymous
ListenABLE
A podcast hosted by Dylan Alcott (Gold medal winning Australian wheelchair basketballer and tennis player, and 2022 Australian of the year) and Angus O’Loughlin (radio host). ListenABLE aims to challenge the listener’s thoughts on disability by discussing topics which are usually off-limits. Join them, and their special guests as they make you laugh and maybe even cry.
Inform Podcast
Inform is a national information hub for people with disability. Their podcast comes out monthly and is a conversation for people with disability, about people with disability. It covers some fascinating topics: starting your own business, supported decision making, navigating the NDIS, finding a job, and more. They speak to lots of inspiring people in the community who are living with disability.
Disability Done Different
Father and daughter team Roland and Evie Naufal have candid conversations with people who’ve carved their own path in the disability sector. They want to challenge the traditional ways of doing things. Their podcast is full of relaxed conversations with fascinating people. It’s also peppered with some good-natured bickering between the co-hosts.
Reasonable and Necessary: Making Sense of the NDIS
Dr George Taleporos hosts this podcast which is all about navigating the NDIS. He looks at topics like what to do if you’re not happy with your NDIS plan, how to achieve great outcomes with the NDIS and how the NDIS can do better.
One in Five
The Melbourne Disability Institute produces the ‘One in Five’ podcast. They explore some of the complex issues facing people with disability such as employment, housing, supporting families and the law. They speak to a range of experts who work in the space and many people with disability. With one in five people living with disability, they aim to talk about ways everyone can improve the lives of people with disability.
Australasian Society for Intellectual Disability Podcast: Research to practice
Australasia’s peak body in intellectual disability aims to promote research to inform and influence good practise and policy for people with intellectual disabilities. In their podcast episodes, they speak to researchers about topics as diverse as living in group homes, LBGTQIA+ adults who have intellectual disabilities, political citizenship, good health and more.
COVID information for people with disability: Queenslanders with Disability Network
COVID-19 information for people with disability: National Disability Services
General information on the COVID-19 vaccination: Health Direct
Queensland Health Accessibility: COVID 19 Vaccination clinics accessibility guideline (PDF)
COVID-19 Vaccine Clinic Finder: Australian Government Department of Health
COVID-19 advice for people with disability: Australian Government Department of Health
PDF document on the rights of people with disability in health and disability care during COVID-19
Accessible Australia App – reviews of the accessibility of services across Australia
Information and access to Accessible Australia App
Australian government payments and services for you, your family or carers, if you have an illness, injury or disability.
Information on government payments and other services to support disability
‘Australian Network on Disability’ resource page
Australian Network on Disability – Accessibility Resources
Australian Human Rights Commission – Access For All
Document for businesses on improving access to goods, services, facilities, premises and information
Australian Government Disability Gateway
Information to connect people with disabilities, their families and carers to information and services
Centre for Universal Design Australia – Creating a more inclusive world
View website on inclusive designs including links to other inclusive design aspects
Fact sheets about working with people with disability
The Health Equity and Access Team (HEAT) at Metro South Health (MSH) have produced five disability fact sheets for health workers:
Hosting accessible and inclusive meetings and events
Asking about disability (in forms and surveys)
Working with people who are blind or have low vision
Working with people who are Deaf or hard of hearing
Working with people with intellectual disability
The fact sheets were developed through Queenslanders with Disability Network (QDN) focus groups with people with lived experience and input from disability peak bodies and stakeholders.
True Relationships provide relationship and sexuality education for people of all ages with disability.
RACGP – Resources to help GPs support patients to access the NDIS
GP Toolkit – Understanding Your Role with NDIS
Information for GPs and health professionals – NDIS
Practical resources for GPs and other health professionals – NDIS
Patient information booklet – Accessing the NDIS
Patient checklist for appointment with GP – Accessing the NDIS
General disability support services
Disability Gateway (Australian Government)
Disability Reporting Handbook – Media Diversity Australia (PDF)
Autism Spectrum Disorder
Blind or Vision Impaired
Royal Society for the Blind (RSB)
Vision Australia – Accessibility Toolkit
Website containing information and downloads about accessibility including associated resources
Vision Australia – simulation glasses: experience what it is like to live with eye conditions like glaucoma, macular degeneration, cataracts etc.
Ordering site for Vision Australia simulation glasses
Brain Injury
Deaf or hard of hearing
Intellectual disability
Council for Intellectual Disability
Queensland Centre for Intellectual and Developmental Disability
Mental Illness
Mental Health Australia (recommended support organisations)
Queensland Mental Health Week – Get Involved
Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME)
Neurological disability
Motor Neurone Disease Association of Queensland
Neurodiversity
Different Brains – A not-for-profit dedicated to Neurodiversity
Hidden Disability – the Sunflower
Supporting neurodiverse populations
NeuroDiversity Connect is an Australian community organisation who work with neurodivergent people and their families to seek support and community inclusion.
Neurodiversity – Glossary of Terms
Neurodiversity Hub – Resources for Students, Employers & More
Project Implicit – Test your implicit bias
Online questionnaires designed to test your implicit bias on a variety of topics
Physical disability
Polio
Cody, a disability advocate, talks about his health care experiences
CheckUP works in partnership to develop the Access for All App
Disability Awareness – Access for All App
Dr Dinesh Palipana supports Access for All
Dr Dinesh Palipana shares his lived experience of disability
Dr Dinesh Palipana talks about the Access for All App
Introduction to AUSLAN interpreting
Working with an AUSLAN interpreter
Access for All | Case Study | Townsville Aboriginal and Islanders Health Services
Access for All | Case Study | Synergy Health Centre