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Disability Services and Information Victoria

• 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.
   
• Disability Information and Communication Exchange  - The official web site of the National Council on Intellectual Disability
   
• Disability Online  - Information for people with a disability, their families and carers.
   
• Disability Rights Victoria  - An advocacy organisation working with and on behalf of adults with physical and multiple disability.
   
• Disability Services  - A Division of the Victorian Government's Department of Human Services.
   
• Equal Opportunity Commission Victoria  - can help if you've been discriminated against in employment, education and many other areas.
   
• Interchange Victoria - Community based, not-for-profit organisation that provides support to families who have a child with a disability.
   
• Meals Victoria  - Victorian Meals on Wheels Assoc. Inc
   
• ParaQuad Victoria - Range of services for people with a physical disability.

• People Outdoors - Community based organistation that conducts weekend camping programs for children, teenagers and adults with a disability.
   
• 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.