Faces of chronic pain for National Pain Week When Jess Price had a sore throat in June 2017, she had no idea that in less than a year she would be diagnosed with myalgic encephalomyelitis and later, Fibromyalgia. Jess is one of three million Australians who live with...
Fewer restrictions shouldn’t mean fewer choices for people with disabilities Although Melbourne and parts of Victoria are still struggling with lockdown, in other parts of Australia restrictions are easing. Travel is being permitted between states and territories and...
Auslan 101 Auslan is short for Australian Sign Language. Sign language is a visual type of communication that uses hand, arm and body movements to express meaning. Uniquely Australia, Auslan was recognised by the Australian Government as an official language in 1991....
Stories of Australian Paralympians The 1960 Rome Paralympics were the first Paralympic Games. There were 400 Paralympians from 23 countries competing. Among those athletes were Australian’s like Daphne Hilton. There are many Australian Paralympic athletes who broke...
Creative possibilities: Andi Snelling on art and disability Andi Snelling is an award-winning performer, writer and theatre-maker living with Lyme disease and co-infections. Last year, she received an Arts Access Australia Travel Grant to attend Meeting Place, a forum...
A short history of the Paralympics The beginning of the Paralympics as we know them today can be traced to one man and one hospital: Dr Ludwig Guttman and the Stoke Mandeville Hospital. In 1944, during WWII, the British Government asked Dr Guttman to open a centre for...
