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Disability Services and Information Perth & WA
- Activ Foundation Inc - A not-for-profit organisation dedicated
to promoting a better life by providing a range of choices and
opportunities for people with disability and their families living and
working in the community.
- Aged and Community Services WA
- Provides Meals
on Wheels services.
- Autism Solutions
Incorporated To provide services to families with children on the
Autism spectrum and to promote Autism awareness to the broader
community.
- Creative & Therapy
Activities (C.A.T.A.) Group Inc Improves the quality of life for
people with disabilities and the frail-aged by offering programs
which act as a stepping stone from being house-bound to being
involved in the community. Provides a social outlet via activities
and outings, respite camps and day-care. Also provides support and a
break for carers.
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Chromosome
18 Registry and Research Society (Australasia) The Contact point for
families and individuals affected by Chromosome 18 disorders. Provides
information, research and group/social meetings.
- Citizen Advocacy Perth West is
a program which aims to recognise, promote and defend the rights and
interests of people with intellectual disability. It does so by finding
and supporting ordinary, caring, responsible citizens who are prepared
voluntarily to make a positive difference in the life of a person with
an intellectual disability, who has no family and therefore may be
vulnerable, be facing difficult challenges or be at risk.
- Continence Advisory Service
Provides free advice, information, advocacy, counselling,
professional services and education on bladder and bowel control
problems. Promotes community awareness of bladder and bowel health
issues, including incontinence
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Defence Special Needs Support Group
(DSNSG) Provides support, information and assistance to all defence
families who have a dependant with special needs and works to develop
and improve the services available to those families.
- Developmental Disability Council of WA
IncThrough direct action and action through its members, seeks to
make available to people with developmental disability, the same life
opportunities as are available to other Australian citizens.
- Disability
Discrimination Unit Offers free legal advice and representation and
community legal education to people with disabilities, their families
and friends who experience disability-based discrimination.
- Disability
First Stop Is an innovative service that assists people with
disabilities and their families get the help they need when newly
diagnosed or have an accident. Disability First Stop directs them
towards agencies to give them the support they need. This includes
providing information, supported referrals to relevant services,
provision of professional advocacy support, self help, access to
counselling and interpreters..
- Disability Services Commission
- Support,
access to services and supporting the rights of people with disabilities.
- Down Syndrome Association of WA
- Disability Information & Communication Exchange
- The official web site of the National Council on Intellectual Disability
- Dyslexia-SPELD Foundation WA
Inc, TheOffers a range of services and family support throughout
Western Australia to enable children and adults with specific learning
disabilities to realise their greatest potential
- Elba Incorporated Offers
services to enable people with disabilities to live independently in
their own homes with dignity. Services include 24 hours access, home
visits, liaison with government departments, professional services,
library resources and a newsletter.
- Ethnic Disability Advocacy Centre
Provides advocacy and information to ensure that ethnic people with
disabilities and their carers gain equitable access to a range of
services provided by the government and non-government agencies.
Encourages service agencies to be responsive to both cultural and
linguistic needs of their clients.
- Hills Community Support Group Inc
Offers a caring community service for frail older people, people with
disabilities, carers and youth who need support, assistance, advice and
encouragement in their daily lives.
- Headwest - Brain Injury
Association WA Inc Provides an individual advocacy service that
assists people with an acquired brain injury (ABI). Also assists
families and/or carers to address particular issues or problems. Also
provides community education and systemic advocacy.
- I.d.entity WA Works to
maximise the well-being, potential and quality of life of people with
intellectual disabilities, in particular, those with high support needs
and/or expressed spiritual needs.
- Independent Living Centre of Western Australia
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Non-government, not-for-profit, community based equipment information and
advisory resource service.
- Kids Are Kids! Therapy &
Education Centre Inc. Provides specialised speech pathology
occupational therapy and physiotherapy services to children aged 0 - 13
years. There is also a government funded early intervention service for
children aged 0 - 6 years who have a disability. We run individual and
group sessions and parent workshops.
- Leaps and Bounds is
a non profit organisation aimed at supplying therapy for children with
Autism aged between 3 and 16 years.
- Motor Neurone Disease Association
of WA Inc Raises awareness of Motor Neurone Disease and ensures
carers, family members and MND sufferers have access to the resources
required to maximise their lifestyles. Also provides information and
education to professionals and the wider community.
- Muscular Dystrophy Association of WA
Inc Helps to relieve sickness, suffering and distress occasioned
through muscular dystrophy and allied diseases. Provides counselling,
advocacy and patient support services.
- Neuromuscular Support Group
Provides mutual support for persons suffering from neuromuscular
diseases and their families. Also provides information on research and
changes in the Disability Services Act.
- Nulsen Haven Association A
not-for-profit organisation that provides 24 hour support to West
Australians with profound and severe intellectual disabilities.
- Parkinson's
Western Australia Provides support and information to people with
Parkinson's and their families, helps to raise the awareness of
Parkinson's Disease in the community and to educate health
professionals.
- People 1st Programme
(PIP) Supports people with an intellectual disability in human
relationships by providing a range of possible options for participation
in appropriately and dynamically structured educational sessions and
activities.
- People with Disabilities WA (PWDWA) Inc
Advocates and represents the needs, rights and equality of all West
Australians. Promotes advocacy to individuals, information and referral,
lobbying, community education and disability awareness.
- PEP Community Services Works to
maximise the participation and status of people with disabilities and
other disadvantages in open and/or competitive employment, regardless of
the nature or extent of that disability or disadvantage.
- Periodic Paralysis
Society Provides support for people with various forms of periodic
paralysis and associated conditions, including Hypokalemic Periodic
Paralysis, Thyrotoxic Periodic Paralysis, Hyperkalemic Periodic
Paralysis, Normokalemic Periodic Paralysis, Andersen's Syndrome,
Paramyotonia Congenita and Myotonia Congenita. Services include
information and education, support and advocacy.
- Physical Disability Council of
Australia Ltd (PDCA) 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 our
support.
- People with Disabilities - Disability consumer
lobby group, with services including advocacy, information and referrals,
community education and lobbying.
- Post Polio Network of WA Inc
Offers support and information for polio survivors and their families as
they cope with the late effects of polio and ageing with a long term
disability. Support is also offered to people with muscle or nerve type
diseases.
- Recreation and Sport Network
Provides information and support to people with disabilities who want to
become involved in community recreation and sport.
- SECCA (Sexuality Education
Counselling & Consultancy Agency) Provides a tailored, flexible
and responsive service to people with disabilities, their families,
carers and others around issues of sexuality, relationships and
sexual health. Services include information and advice, educational
services, library resources, training workshops/seminars, audio
visual material, and counselling.
- Senses Foundation Inc Primary
service provider and advocate for people who are deaf/blind or blind with
another significant disability.
- Southern District Support Association Inc
Assists people living within the Perth south-east corridor to remain in
their own homes for as long as they wish, to prevent inappropriate placement
in hostels and nursing homes.
- Technology Assisting
Disability WA Inc (TADWA) Provides services to improve the quality
of life for people with disabilities, the frail-aged and those caring
for them, through the application of technology and skills of
volunteers. Services include modified/adaptive equipment and technology,
home visits and advocacy.
- Therapy Focus works with families, schools and the community to support children in reaching their potential. Our multi-disciplinary therapists help children learn to walk, communicate and participate in the community.
- Vizhelp A support group for parents
of the blind or vision impaired, run by parents of the blind or vision
impaired.
- Volunteer Task Force
Provides practical assistance to the aged, those with disabilities and their
carers to enable them to live independently in their homes.
- Warren Blackwood Personnel
An employment agency that competes in the open employment market for job
opportunities for people with a disability who are looking for work.
- WA Stroke Foundation Inc Offers
support, information and continuing education to stroke survivors and their
families. Services include information and advice, support and fellowship.
- Western Australian Speak Easy
Association Inc Offers support, information and advocacy for parents and
all people who stutter. Groups meet regularly to work on fluency techniques,
discuss individual stuttering problems and develop self-confidence.
Products
to assist people with disabilities
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Bad Backs
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".
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