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CripChat Australia #201: People with Disabilities and the Festive Season
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CripChat Australia #200: Disability and Leadership
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CripChat Australia #199: Community Attitudes and NDIS Reforms
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Jonathan Shar
May 18, 20232 min read
Government bolsters commitment to autism
Hundreds of babies aged nine to 14-months with early signs of autism will have a better chance of appropriate developmental supports, with
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Jonathan Shar
Nov 30, 20223 min read
Accessible Skills Assessments Uncovering Hidden Talent
In October the National Skills Commission reported that Australia is facing chronic skills shortages with nearly a third of all...
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Jonathan Shar
Aug 4, 20222 min read
Inclusion grants supporting people with disability statewide in Queensland
Autism Queensland will be funded for the first time as one of nine of the state’s peak disability bodies to share in $4.2 million to suppor
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Jonathan Shar
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Importance of neurodiversity in the workforce
Young adults with autism are being sidestepped as employers fail to see the upside of a neurodiverse workplace new research from the Univers
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Jonathan Shar
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Australian first college for young adults with disabilities and autism has its 2021 Graduation
On Friday, the first of its kind College, STEPS Pathways College, celebrated the graduation of another group of their students.
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Jonathan Shar
Sep 10, 20208 min read
Celebrating Neurodiversity in the Classroom
Tracy Murray has witnessed a lot of change in her 27 years of work in classrooms. But in her view, no shift has been as radical—or as posit
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Jonathan Shar
Sep 4, 20203 min read
Parents in Tasmania's disadvantaged areas struggle to access appropriate care for children with auti
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Parents of children with autism are struggling to access help close to home
Some have had to quit work to travel to ap
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Jonathan Shar
Aug 18, 20205 min read
Inside scientists’ quest to map, modulate social circuits in autism
One of the biggest mysteries in autism research is understanding how the condition’s discrete set of traits emerges from a multitude of...
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Jonathan Shar
Aug 14, 20205 min read
Motor difficulties in autism, explained
Most autistic people — 87 per cent, according to the latest estimate — have some sort of motor difficulty, ranging from an atypical gait to
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Jonathan Shar
Aug 13, 20203 min read
Autistic interior designer draws confidence from program for entrepreneurs with disabilities
Jo Viney from Phillip Island is one of 15 Victorian business owners finding her feet in the industry in part thanks to a program designed t
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Jonathan Shar
Aug 13, 20206 min read
Red Cross decision to shut Lady Lawley Cottage leaves families struggling to find respite care
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The Red Cross announced in May it was shutting Lady Lawley Cottage
There are concerns families have been left without s
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Jonathan Shar
Jul 22, 20204 min read
In search of ‘social’ subtypes of autism
Social difficulties have been considered a defining characteristic of autism since Leo Kanner published the first clinical descriptions of t
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Jonathan Shar
Jul 18, 20200 min read
Autistic people with rare mutation may have unique brain anatomy
Autistic people with deletions in the chromosomal region 22q11.2 have a brain structure that’s distinct from that of autistic people without
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