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The NDIS roll-out has been criticised for many glitches, but that doesn’t mean the scheme is failing.
Think it’s hard for first-home buyers? Ask people with an intellectual disability about it.
We know predators will continue to target the vulnerable, including children and people with disability. The NDIS will mitigate some of the issues in this space, but we need a royal commission too.
New rules offer the possibility of an inclusive Australian society that enables people with the highest disability-related support needs to have equal access to mainstream services including housing.
New research has found the UK parliament is fraught with institutionalised ableism
It’s past time to dismantle the (often invisible) barriers that keep people with disabilities less healthy, employed and educated than other groups worldwide.
Meet the real Daniel Blakes.
Students with disability are experiencing a range of harms in schools, and teachers are struggling to support students with increasingly complex needs.
The NDIS provides an opportunity to address the shortfalls of the former institutionalised service system, some of which uniquely impact Indigenous Australians.
Schools are deliberately disregarding disability standards through rejecting school places, being reluctant to make teaching adjustments and having poor attitudes towards disability.
Thousands of young people with disability who end up in nursing homes lead lives of isolation and boredom. Better and smarter housing finance and support options are at last being developed.
In 2012, nearly one-third of voters with a disability had trouble voting. A 2002 law was supposed to fix this problem. New technology may have the answer at last.
The most shocking moments of the true crime documentary Making a Murderer depict two police officers gently coaxing a softly spoken teenager to recount his role in a vicious crime. Warning: spoilers ahead.
A recent survey of paediatricians found they often lacked enough information to accurately diagnose an Autism Spectrum Disorder in children.
Parents need to be pushier and demand private school places for their children.
Children with disabilities are frequently discriminated against in Australian schools, with parents asked to send their child to another school or fork out extra money.
By tying funding to disability categories, schools and parents are being put under pressure to seek a diagnosis for their child in order to get funding support.
Language can be used harmfully to construct categories of others. The words we use in describing children with disabilities need to be examined, challenged - and changed.
The Senate inquiry into violence against people with disability shows the root cause of violence, neglect and abuse of people with disability begins with the de-valuing of their lives.
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Research Fellow, Dignity Project, Griffith University
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ARC Research Fellow in Indigenous Health, Disability and Community Development, University of Sydney
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Professor and Director of the Centre for Inclusive Education, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor, Director, Griffith Inclusive Futures, Griffith University, Griffith University
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Adjunct Professor, Summer Disability Research Centre, La Trobe University
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Professor, Disability and Community Inclusion, Flinders University
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Professor of Social Inclusion - UTS Business School - Co-Lead UTS Disability Research Network - Australian Centre for Olympic and Sport Studies - Centre for Sport, Business and Society, University of Technology Sydney
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Associate Professor, La Trobe Law School, La Trobe University
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Professor of Education, University of Sydney
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Professor, University of Sydney; RMIT University
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Professor of Economics and Public Policy, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University
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Senior Research Associate in the Department of Geography, Durham University
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Professor of Special Education, University of Florida
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Professor, University of Nottingham
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Professor, TC Beirne School of Law, The University of Queensland; Syracuse University