Disability and Diverse Needs

Family Planning NSW recognises the need to promote and protect the reproductive and sexual health and rights of people with disability. We advocate for people with disability to have equity of access to reproductive and sexual health services. See this resource for numerous helpful factsheets.

My aim is to educate, collaborate, support and uplift families/carers, individuals & professionals who are neurodivergent (Autistic, ADHD, learning differences, etc.) themselves, who support a neurodivergent individual or who may just be looking to understand more about neurodiversity. I will do this from my lived experience as a teacher, as a woman and as an Autistic & ADHD mum to two neurodivergent PDAers.

Substance use rates are higher among people with disabilities, and disabilities can also make getting proper treatment more difficult. A study from Bicycle Health.

Part of the NDIS Know-How Series: This conversation covers how to advocate for our kids – especially those with autism – at an NDIS planning meeting, the liberating benefits of being plan managed, and what changes to our government and the NDIS could mean for our community.

Welcome to NDIS Know-how, a podcast series that asks parents how they get the very best NDIS plan and ample funding to support their kid.

Family Planning NSW is the leading provider of reproductive and sexual health education for disability workers.

Online training is now available for students with disability, their families and advocates.

If you are within New South Wales, Australia, we may be able to help you with free legal advice on disability discrimination.

We work with families to defend and promote the rights and interests of people with developmental disability.

Learn about what discrimination is, how the law protects you, and what your rights are if you experience discrimination. If you’ve experienced discrimination in New South Wales, you can lodge a complaint with us. Our services are free.

The Australian Government is committed to ensuring that every student, including students with disability, have access to education in a sustainable and effective manner during the COVID-19 pandemic.

See where the government stands on supporting students with a disability in their education. How students should be supported and legal frameworks.

Fact Sheet 1: Disability Discrimination Act 1992
This fact sheet summarises the Disability Discrimination Act 1992.

Our goal is to educate and support schools, teachers, parents, carers, families and individuals who are Neurodivergent themselves, teach and support Neurodivergent students or just seek a better understanding of Neurodiversity.

Listen to Mandy Hose and Kate Jones laugh (a lot) and cry as they chat to each other and friends about parenting multiples with disabilities and additional needs.

The Berry Street Education Model (BSEM) provides strategies that enables teachers to increase engagement of students with complex, unmet learning needs and to successfully improve all students’ self-regulation, relationships, wellbeing, growth and academic achievement.

For all things Disability Rights. Services include legal advice, casework, referrals, delivery of Community Legal Education and many resources.

I empower neurodivergent teens and young adults to design careers that are strengths based, interest driven, and in which they will succeed BECAUSE of their Neurodivergence, not in spite of it.

Jigsaw is a social enterprise that trains and transitions people with disability into award wage employment. We believe people prepare best for work, through work.

Jigsaw is a social enterprise that trains and transitions people with disability into award wage employment. Jigsaw’s holistic approach starts from the very basics of work-readiness training all the way through to supported transition to mainstream employment.