If you've missed the headlines recently about NCCD-linked disability support funding needing to be repaid by schools across Australia, you'd not be alone - for the Disability community, there's been so much change over the past 2-3 months, heck, the past 3-4 years, it's hard to keep up! TLDR: News Corp is reporting that more than 300 schools have already repaid/will be repaying around $12 million, that schools are cutting learning-support staff and programs, and that the Commonwealth expects...

That picture is my Facebook Memory for today: a very cute photo of my brother and I as tiny humans. Seeing it flash up made me happy for a moment. And then the considerably less cute memory of what happened in Parliament this week flashed back into my mind, after a conversation with my Dad this morning about what this all means. Because with the passing of the latest NDIS legislation, my brother's future world just became a little more uncertain, and potentially a whole lot smaller. My...

Autism does not always present loudly. Some autistic children are not disruptive, withdrawn in obvious ways, or visibly distressed in environments where others expect to “see” autism. Instead, many individuals — particularly girls, children assigned female at birth, and those with more internalised presentations — learn to observe, copy, comply, and camouflage their differences. Appearing quiet, capable, polite, socially interested, academically “fine”, or emotionally contained, they may...