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Disability Services and Information Canberra ACT

  • accessibility.com.au  - The disability information resource.
     
  • National Industry Association for Disability Services (ACROD) is the National Industry Association for Disability Services. ACROD's membership includes over 550 non-government, non-profit organisations, which collectively operate several thousand services for Australians with all types of disabilities, including intellectual, physical, psychiatric and sensory. ACROD's members are located in every State and Territory in Australia and range in size from very small support groups to very large service providers.
     
  • Human Rights and Equal Opportunities Commission (HREOC)  
     
  • Advocacy for Inclusion  - Providing individual and systemic advocacy to improve life for people who have a disability. Formerly Advocacy ACTion Inc and People First ACT Inc.
     
  • Citizens Advice Bureau  - helps people to remove physical and sensory barriers to access in the ACT through a comprehensive referral service.

  • ACT Disability, Aged and Carer Advocacy Service  - Information, advice, referral.

  • ACT Human Rights Office - can help if you've been discriminated against in employment, education and many other areas.

  • Canberra Blind Society  - Information, advice, support groups, social rehabilitation, aids and equipment, and a variety of activities and services.

  • Community Connections  - supports and services people with disabilities in Canberra.

  • Disability ACT - A division of Disability, Housing & Community Services.

  • Disability Coordination Office - Information to assist people with a disability move from school into training and higher education, and then into their chosen career.

  • Disability Information and Communication Exchange  - The official web site of the National Council on Intellectual Disability

  • Home Help ACT  - A not-for-profit organisation that provides in-home support to the elderly, frail aged, people with disabilities and their carers in the ACT under the Home and Community Care (HACC) program.

  • Koomarri  - Employment, housing and community access for people with a disability.
     
  • Office of the Community Advocate  - The OCA has a range of statutory functions and powers with respect to children and young people, and adults with a mental illness or impaired decision making ability, who require protection from abuse, exploitation or neglect.

  • People With Disabilities  - Consumer body representing people with disabilities.

  • Physical Disability Council of Australia  - PDCA is run entirely by people with physical disabilities, for people with physical disabilities. It does not discriminate on the basis of disability, nor does PDCA determine what a physical disability is. PDCA operates under an inclusion policy and offers membership and/or services to any person with a disability who seeks its support.

Products to assist people with disabilities

  • BadBacks has articles, discussion forums and a range of traditional & alternative back care products to help relieve injury or chronic pain conditions and help healing. They also have preventative products and relief for people (like me) who spend a lot of time sitting at computers.
     
  • Book "A Penny for your Thoughts The book is an uplifting autobiography by Penny Harland, coauthored by Sarah Patterson. Penny Harland is now in her mid fifties but has been both deaf and blind since very early childhood. She now suffers with balance problems and a muscle wasting disease as well. As a young girl her education faltered when she was forced from school to take up work in a sheltered workshop making toilet brushes! What this lady has done since is truly inspirational! She has soldiered on to get a University education! She has earned a Bachelor of Arts, a Bachelor of Education and a Master of Education! Her elderly father is a war veteran who can barely walk from his bedroom. Her mother has suffered a stroke. Yet Penny still helps keep the family going! Now Penny has written an inspirational book to share her struggle and success with others - titled "A Penny for your Thoughts". 
     
  • Achievable Concepts - Adapted recreation and sporting equipment for people with disabilities and the aged. Includes Beach wheelchairs, Cycling & trikes, Exercise equipment, Electric scooters & bikes, Fishing, Golf, Lawn bowls, Mt buggy/stroller, Motor cycling, Pool wheelchair, Seating, Snow skiing and Ten pin bowling products
       
  • Mite-Y-Fresh - Sydney-based store featuring products for asthma and allergy sufferers that assist in controlling and protecting against airborne allergens. Includes Dust Mite Allergy Bedding, Dehumidifiers, and Air Purifiers.

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