Technology helping to break down barriers Australian disability groups are embracing technology to provide support to people with disability and breakdown barriers in the community. Launched on World Down Syndrome Day, Down Syndrome Australia’s ‘Ask About Down...
“You’re hired!” – How to ace your next job application and interview Applying for jobs and performing well at interviews can be challenging and stressful, even more so for people with disability. People with disability experience a wide range of inherent barriers to...
Sharing your disability in a new relationship doesn’t have to be scary Knowing how and when to share your story at the beginning of a new relationship can be tricky to figure out. Niamh Sullivan shares some advice for how to tackle those conversations. It was an...
Advice for writing about your lived experience of disability Writing about your lived experience of disability can be a powerful way to self-advocate. For Inform, Katerina Bryant provides some advice for how you can write your own story. My debut book, Hysteria: A...
How working in disability advocacy helped me feel disability pride Issy Orosz now wears the word disabled as a badge of honour. But it wasn’t always that way. For Inform, Issy writes about how working in disability advocacy helped them feel disability pride. I have...
My beautiful broken brain After sustaining a traumatic brain injury in 2011, Nandita Chakraborty reinvented herself as a writer. For Inform, she shares the story of her beautiful broken brain. The brain is the most important organ of the body. It controls everything...