How Videogames Positively Support My Wellbeing
Video games have done a lot to rid the assumption that they are mind-numbing violence simulators and are now widely used as tools to...
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We publish posts to this blog that contain stories, information and other types of content from our members that we want to share with the world!
This blog is part of a project that is a NDIS Information, Linkages and Capacity Building (ILC) initiative, made available by the Government of Western Australia, Department of Communities.
- Jan 17
Tips for Transitioning to High School
Bog Post by Alice O'Sullivan - YDAN Team Member Last year I got involved in the creation of an online self-advocacy resource called How I...
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- Aug 1, 2020
Access to Sport as a Disabled Person
Blog Post by Layne Dixon - YDAN Team Member From a young age I have always been involved with sport. I did everything from horse riding...
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- Aug 1, 2020
Between Two Worlds: Living with A (Semi)Invisible Disability
However, I’ve come to realise that there is power in acknowledging my status as a person with a disability.
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- Nov 27, 2019
School of Struggles: A Journey Through School with a Disability
Layne had an awful school experience. Now at 18, she looks back at her journey and how it made her the person she is today.
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- Sep 24, 2019
Dining While Deaf: A Recipe for Disaster
Blog post by Jesse Williams - YDAN Executive Chair and Managing Director As I’m sitting in the restaurant I hear a sudden burst of...
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- Sep 18, 2019
Accessibility 'Blooms' at Troye Sivan's Intimate Concert
This is how a concert experience should be! To have choice and control over the experience I want to have and what ‘perceived risk’ I put my
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- Sep 9, 2019
Access through the ages...
Blog post by Hester-Henrietta Knowles - YDAN Team Member For some reason, don’t ask me why, I have been thinking a lot about time-travel...
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- Aug 28, 2019
Learning to Dance in the Rain
When I was younger, I always knew that I was different. What I didn’t realise was the way the outside world would perceive me
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- Aug 5, 2019
Why You Can't Be Disabled and an Athlete
When you see someone who is a wheelchair user, what occupations come to mind?
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- Aug 1, 2019
Speaking the Unspoken: Navigating the Workplace
And so, as I walked the corridors and sat in the break room the questions began.
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- Mar 26, 2019
Disability...Without a Wheelchair
Sadly, people with invisible disabilities often face harassment from people who assume that they are "cheating".
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- Mar 5, 2019
Creating Social Inclusion in the Deaf Community
camp provides a space for students transitioning across to high school to connect with others
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- Jan 7, 2019
Is Disability a Universal Language?
I take great interest in observing how attitudes and approaches to disability differ between countries around the world.
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- Dec 31, 2018
Beach Access: New Level of Ridiculous Revealed
even though the Government has funds and roll out their commitment to equality, they choose to spend it on other things
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- Nov 5, 2018
YDAN on Tour: Katanning
It was really encouraging to the YDAN team to have such positive interactions with the young people
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- Oct 1, 2018
When a flight turns into a fight: daily deafblind downfalls
it happened so fast that I had no idea what their reaction was and if they were even awake. But I was so embarrassed
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- Jun 5, 2018
Refugees and Disability: Australia urgently needs to expand its scope of ‘inclusion’
let’s establish that seeking asylum, whether by boat, through the Commonwealth games, or by plane is not ‘illegal’
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