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Nominations are Open Until the 16 of December 2024 Queensland Ability Awards 2024 Gala Spectacular 1st of February 2025 309 Herston Road Herston QLD

As we welcome September, we must recognize the power of our diversity and the strength in our inclusion. At Divas With Disabilities Project, we are more than a community; we are a movement that amplifies the voices of women of color with disabilities. Our stories, talents, and experiences shape a narrative that challenges societal norms and redefines what it means to be truly inclusive. Inclusion is not just about making room at the table—it’s about rebuilding the table to ensure everyone is valued and heard. As Divas, we bring our unique perspectives, resilience, and defiance against the odds. Today, we celebrate not just who we are, but the powerful impact we have when we come together. Every day, we break barriers, not just for ourselves but for future generations. We are living proof that diversity is our strength and inclusion is our power. Help us change the perception about what visible disability looks like for Black and Brown Women and Girls. Donate today via divaswithdisabilities.org   #DiversityIsPower #InclusionMatters #DivasWithDisabilities

Are you passionate about empowering people with intellectual disability to take charge of their lives, have better health, and find meaningful employment opportunities? Apply to be an Inclusion Projects Officer! Join the dynamic and dedicated team at CID, where we’re committed to building a community where everyone is included and valued. Don’t miss your chance — applications close on September 9. https://lnkd.in/gACVa86B

I’d told my husband we were going to try to switch off. We desperately needed a week away just for ourselves. We’d gone to Cornwall after quite a difficult year, finally able to find some space and breathe out. And after giving our AuDHD (young adult) kids the choice of joining us, we’d accepted they were happier to stay at home by themselves. But as any parent knows, particularly one of neurodivergent children, they’re never far from your mind. So it was inevitable we talked about them a lot as we walked along the beach and the coastal path. And there were a few issues we had to sort out with them from a distance – mainly down to the fact one’s chaotically messy, and the other easily overwhelmed by too much stuff. We were fertile grounds already when we came across this book in a little independent bookshop in Padstow. I’d had it on my reading list for a while and knew it was good. But after reading it cover-to-cover one wet afternoon in the holiday house, I can tell you it’s far more than good. It’s life-changing. Even as a mum who spends hours reading about AuDHD or in parent chat forums, I understood things about my children’s late-diagnosed experience I don’t think I’ve ever fully understood before. There were times I felt a jolt of love and compassion as it dawned on me just how hard life had been for them. But it’s also at its heart a profoundly positive book – a manifesto for change underpinned by humour, hope, and celebration of the untypical mind. I put it down again feeling confident I could be a better parent and my kids would find their feet. Please, please *everyone* read this book as a service to yourselves, your neurodivergent people, and to wider society. It should be compulsory reading in every teacher training course at the very least. Thank you Pete Wharmby for this gift to us. And thank you also Mark Ellerby for being the first to let me know about it. #neurodiversity #autism #ADHD #neurodivergence As ‘writing partner for regenerative design’, I include neuroarchitecture and design for neurodiversity inclusion. I apply my lived experience – both as an architecture copywriter and as an untypical parent navigating (literally and metaphorically) the public and schools building challenge – to help architects tell the world what they’re doing to change things.

This is exciting! I’ve been nominated for People’s Portrait at the National Portrait Gallery. What an honour - especially for Face Equality and Ichthyosis to be recognised. You can vote from wherever in the world you are. Thank you! I love visual art and art galleries, and this has buoyed me so much. 💙💚 From National Portrait Gallery, Canberra : Today's People's Portrait candidate is appearance activist, wordsmith and dopamine-dressing fashionista Carly Findlay OAM! Award-winning writer, speaker and appearance activist Carly Findlay OAM identifies as a proud disabled woman. Born in Albury with ichthyosis, a rare genetic skin disorder, Findlay writes and presents on disability and appearance diversity issues for news outlets and as a speaker at events. Her memoir Say Hello was released in 2019, and she edited Growing Up Disabled in Australia (2021). She also works part time as an Access Advisor at Melbourne Fringe. 🔗 Is Carly your pick for our next commission? Vote her into the collection or view the other candidates here: https://bit.ly/46RHm4E Image is a promotional graphic for 'The People's Portrait' featuring a stylised blue portrait of Carly Findlay, labeled as an Appearance Activist, Wordsmith, and Fashionista. Text urges to 'Vote Now'.

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The neurodiversity-affirming movement, emerging in the 1990s, challenges traditional views of neurodivergence as disorders requiring treatment, instead advocating for understanding and support that recognises these conditions as natural variations of human experience. This approach emphasises the strengths and lived experiences of neurodivergent individuals, particularly in the context of autism, and calls for inclusive practices in research, therapy, and social integration that respect preferences and identities. #actuallyautistic #autism #autistic #autismawareness #autismacceptance #autismspectrum #psychologist #psychology #alliedhealthprofessionals #teachers #psychiatry #InclusiveHealthcare #InclusiveSociety #BlogWednesday