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Now in its sixth year, Brain Injury Australia’s National Brain Injury Conference, driving improvements in services and supports for over 700,000 Australians living with brain injury, will be held at Brisbane’s […]

Universal Design (UD) is not just about access it brings with it wide-reaching economic and social benefits, according to Deloitte Access Economics partner, Nicki Hutley. Speaking at the Universal Design […]

Freedom2Live has two tickets, worth 650 each, to give away for this year’s Australian Universal Design Conference. Taking place at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre from September 4-5, the conference aims to […]

The UK summit chair, Professor Tom Shakespeare, who visited Australia recently, delivered a powerful speech on disability and leadership, at the inaugural Global Disability Summit. “To live with impairment and […]

Nicki Hutley from Deloitte Access Economics, Amy Child from global engineering firm Arup and Chris Veitch from UK based Access New Business are among the line-up of speakers at this […]

A UK study has found that the ability to distinguish truth from lies is diminished in people with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) putting them at greater risk of being manipulated. […]

An Autism Advisory Group has been established to provide advice and feedback to the National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA). The Australian Autism Alliance looks forward to working with its partners and […]

Australians with a disability, their families and carers will be better off under a landmark agreement between the Commonwealth and New South Wales Governments. The arrangement ensures the full rollout […]

There were many new products and solutions to help increase independence and make life easier for people with disability. Here are a few that caught our attention at ATSA Melbourne. Freedom […]

People living with autism spectrum disorder are one step closer to receiving personalised genetic diagnosis and treatment, according to University of Queensland (UQ) research. New approaches in genomic technologies, computational […]

The funding cloud that was hanging over the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) has lifted with the Federal Government now fully committed to supporting the scheme. A stronger economy and […]

Changes to the National Relay Service (NRS) has the potential to put those who are deaf or hearing-impaired at risk. This follows the Australian Government’s recent decision to release a […]