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An emphasis on the autonomy of people with learning disabilities has put distance between care workers and the people they support.
People with disabilities face barriers to sexual expression. New technologies can help, but we need to look at both the opportunities and risks these developments bring.
There's a lot we can do to make society more accessible for people with communication disability.
We don't actually know how NDIS participants weigh their personal goals and then make choices about achieving them through services, supports, therapies and interventions.
New research shows the effect of bullying on disabled teenagers and suggests what schools can do to help.
Interviewees report being told their identity is just a 'phase'.
Low expectations influence disabled young people's educational attainment, finds new study.
Even though people with autism are more likely to think about concrete stuff rather than abstract feelings, anxiety still exists and, if not recognised, can cause significant problems.
Facilitated Communication began in Australia in the 1980s to help people with disabilities communicate, but it has since been shown to replace the voice of the person with that of the facilitator.
Treasurer Scott Morrison abandoned the proposed increase to the Medicare levy to pay for the NDIS. Here's what you need to know about how the NDIS is funded, and how cost predictions have changed.
The NDIS is set to reshape Australian cities. But to achieve meaningful participation of people with disabilities, urban communities and services will also need to take action.
Rwandan girls with disabilities are challenging domination and stereotypes in a male-dominated setting.
Employable Me is being touted as the feel good TV series of 2018. But will it make any difference to how employers approach jobseekers with disabilities?
While disability carers are employed to work part-time hours, they often have long work days with short periods of work interspersed with non-work periods.
Hawking's life embodied what it means to have access to the human right of communication through communication technology.
Only half of disabled people are in work, despite high rates of employment across the population as a whole.
Perpetual uncertainty and changes to the way disability benefits work take a heavy toll on claimants.
Imagine a collaboratively-designed smartphone app that could provide cues to an autistic individual -- about the emotional state of people they are communicating with.
Rates of spinal fusion surgery for back pain are on the rise. This is despite little evidence that it's an effective procedure and studies showing many will have revision surgery within ten years.
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