Are you deeply committed to seeing people living with disability get a fair go? Do you have experience in project management? We are seeking a confident and articulate leader to join us at Purple Orange.
You would never go around slinging out disability slurs. The last thing you want is to cause harm with your words. You would like to be an ally to the disability community, or perhaps you consider yourself one already. But even friends, family members, advocates and disability workers sometime get things wrong. In this episode of The Purple Orange Podcast, Jae Marie Jaensch guides us through things people commonly say that they think are nice, but often aren't received that way.
We made this video to show off the life-changing work of Our Voice SA, a self-advocacy group run by and for people with intellectual disability.
We put a call out, asking people living with disability to tell us what this year's theme, 'building back better,' means to them. We received great responses. Here they are.
Our Voice SA is a peer-led self-advocacy organisation for adults living with intellectual disability. Our Voice SA has conducted a needs analysis to better understand the emerging priorities of South Australians living with intellectual disability. This report allows Our Voice SA to share these findings and make recommendations to key stakeholders.
After graduating from her accounting degree, Daniella Biagi really struggled to get a job. She had no problem getting to the interview stage. But she said there was always an elephant in the room that no one wanted to talk about.
After a terrible life-changing event, Rod Flight reconnects with a dormant passion, but then struggles to not be boxed in by a label.
This submission was made to the Disability Royal Commission in 2020 in response to the Issues paper on rights and attitudes. It covers the attitudes towards people living with disability and knowledge on the rights of people who live with disability. Recommendations to improve attitudes and knowledge on rights of people with disability are included.
I was born with necrotising enterocolitis and have lived with chronic pain my whole life. I’ve had to be independent since I was 12, attending all my own medical appointments and just understanding all my diagnoses. My parents were refugees from Vietnam and couldn’t really speak English, so this was a barrier to them understanding the health professionals, even with interpreters, because there are different dialects of Vietnamese.
I grew up in a very traditional, high pressured Asian way – with lots of pressure to achieve, I put that pressure on myself even though I was very sick. In year 12, I literally lived in hospital for about six months. And I still managed to get the score that my parents wanted me to, and nearly killed myself doing it.
I didn’t really identify as a person with disability until I started working in the disability sector. Mostly it was because of culture – in Vietnamese the literal translation for disability is very harsh and means “broken” or “useless”. So if you can still walk but use a wheelchair, if you’re able to still live life in a relatively ‘normal’ way, you’re not considered to have a disability. It’s harsh, but you just toughen up and deal with it. That’s what I did my whole life.