Then here’s a date for your diary: Monday, 23 November – The University of Sydney – from 11- 2.

 There’s a story around that it’s a tough job market and people with disabilities aren’t getting a look in. Well don’t buy that story – things not nearly that simple!

In fact there are employers who have appointed ‘diversity managers’ or equity staff to place people with disabilities in their organisations.

And it’s starting to work! In fact, these employers want to meet more students and graduates.

Come along on 23 November and hear about mentoring and work experience programs and the companies most likely to recruit people with disabilities. The careers and disability services at your uni will start sending more information soon.

Watch this space for more information……

CP is diverse – it can be mild, such as a weakness in one hand, ranging to an almost complete lack of movement.

A child is born with CP every 18 hours, 1 in 400 births worldwide – no pre-natal testing or cure

Babies with a low birth weight or born prematurely are most at risk

CP can be diagnosed in first 12 – 18 months of life – it is most notable when a child fails to reach movement milestones

Research is vital for the ongoing management of CP

See our links section for more information

How can we go about finding such advice?

Feel free to comment/ network/ add information ……

Users are encouraged to comment, start up a discussion, add information and network with each other.

Resources will be under the pages link on the top right hand corner of the blog. Enjoy!

1. Financial grants - ING annually supports the Conductive Education Centre, Ignition Mentoring Program and Emerge Youth Leadership Program

2. Skilled Volunteering – ING employees volunteer their time to mentor teenagers with cerebral palsy as part of the Ignition Mentoring Program and also coach young adults with cerebral palsy as part of the Emerge Youth Leadership Program. ING employees have also volunteered their skills and expertise to organise and manage a special exhibition of children’s artworks as part of National Cerebral Palsy Awareness Week.

3. Volunteering- In addition to the skilled volunteering programs ING participates in with The Spastic Centre, ING employees also offer their time for one-off activities such as painting bees, Backyard Blitzs and other one-off volunteering activities.”

Instead the challenge is dealing with the mental walls the world tries to put around us and that we place upon ourselves.

For my whole life I’ve tried to use those walls as a motivational force – to challenge myself to break through them and do things that deep down the rest of the world had already decided I could never do.

Enable is an online accessible community network for adults with disabilities.

There is a lack of resources directed towards catering the needs of adults with disabilities. This blog aims to fill this gap by providing the resources you require online. Many people with disabilities are often fustrated with not having the resources available to them, because it may be inaccessible, take days to process  and requires a lot of time put into the effort of finding resources that may service their needs.

Enable was born out of the Emerge programme, run by The Spastic Centre of NSW (TSCNSW) and the ING Foundation (Australia). The blogger, zrb89, is a participant in the Emerge programme.

Anyone is welcome to view to the blog, add a comment, network, start a discussion….