Saturday, 30 June 2012 Time: 6:30pm for a 7:30pm Start Coburg

The Disability Employment Conference is traditionally an important annual event for disability employment professionals and leaders. Wednesday 8 & Thursday 9 August 2012

Come along to Reservoir Leisure Centre’s Staying Active All Abilities Gym Program Do you have a disability and want to stay active?

Sunday 1st April 2012

Would you like free advice about financial planning? Wednesday March 21st Melton

The Parkside FIDA Team welcomes people of all abilities 15 years and over to get involved in the game of Australian Rules football. Involvement can be as either as a player (game or training) or as a supporter/ spectator everyone is welcomed.

28 to Friday 30 November 2012 South Australia. The Pathways 11 Conference Organising Committee would like to extend a warm invitation to everyone who shares the vision for more inclusive tertiary education experiences.

6 August 2012 – 3 week program, Eugene, Oregon, USA. MIUSA’s Women’s Institute on Leadership and Disability (WILD) will bring together approximately 30 women leaders with disabilities from approximately 30 different countries, to strengthen leadership skills, create new visions and build international networks of support for inclusive international development programming

My Time groups provide local support for mums, dads, grandparents and anyone caring for a child with special needs or a chronic illness.

Money had been lost through fraudulent use of multi-purpose taxi program cards, which are issued to people with disabilities. It provides a 50 per cent subsidy for taxis.

Sessions which focus on teaching numeracy and on using the ipad as a classroom tool, with presentations catering for younger and older student age groups. Thursday 15th March 2012

Survey open until 6th March 2012

Associate Professor Mark Stokes, Deakin University, has been actively researching matters associated with Autism and Asperger Syndrome since 2004. Wednesday, 7th March 2012

Gavan Podbury Seminars : Is someone giving you, or someone you know, grief at work or home? Skills for handling difficult behaviours (colleagues, clients, stakeholders, others) Thurs 12 April 2012

In order to achieve social change for people with disability, non-disabled people are going to have to step up and be a critical part of the journey, writes Weh Yeoh.

Disability advocates have recounted distressing tales of disabled women who learn they have been sterilised years after the fact. It comes as Federal Disability Commissioner Graeme Innes raised concerns about the increasing number of procedures being carried out without court approval.

With the help of a grant from VicHealth, Grit Media has created a simple but effective website that can give people the information they need such as: is there ramp access? How wide is the front door? Is there an accessible toilet? What are the acoustics like?

Nebula is Australia’s first portable arts space created with the needs of artists with a disability at the centre of its design. Landing at ACMI (Australian Centre for the Moving Image) 5 March!

Wednesday 22 February 2012, 1:30 - 3:00pm Melbourne

Players needed for the football team

Health, Aged Care & Disability Expo for Managers, Health Professionals, staff …April 18 & 19, open 0930-1600, Caulfield Racecourse

Holy Trinity Cricket Club with support from Darebin Council is running a 5 week 'Cricket All Abilities' Program in February and March 2012.

28th April 2012: Hawthorn: Focusing on contemporary models of Applied Behavioural Analysis in the education and treatment of children with autism.

16 February 2012, from 10am–12.30pm. Etihad Stadium

Thursday 1 & Friday 2 March 2012

North West Metro Region - Broadmeadows (Hume Global Learning Centre) - Wed 23 May

Participants develop a working understanding of Active Support, building on knowledge of the Person-Centred Approaches underpinning current support practice. Wednesday 14 March 2012

Thursday 22nd March, 21st June, 13th September, 22nd November 2012 Workshop is aimed at staff who work with clients where there may be a risk of aggression and/or violence.

For disability support workers to work together with the trainer to establish and explore a shared understanding of the values that underpin working in the disability sector and the attitudes required to perform their job. Friday 2 March 2012