Bitz N Bobz 2

The Body Divided

`A woman with cerebral palsy gets comfortable in her own skin

Drops of rain slide down the dirty glass. From the backseat I ask why I feel less on the right side of my body. Though my father is driving, my mother doesn’t turn toward me. “Because your heart’s on the left,” she says. “Like everyone’s.”'


2m Australians living with multiple disabilities: study

"AN estimated 10 per cent of Australians, or two million people, suffered from two or more disabilities, according to the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare.
While the institute's report includes the infirmities of old age, it found that half of all children aged under 15 years with psychiatric disability (42,300) or acquired brain injury (11,500) had three or more disabilities, followed by over one-third of children with sensory-speech (48,100) or intellectual disability (55,100).

More than half of people aged 15 to 44 with acquired brain injury (more than 85,000 people) or intellectual disability (over 95,000 people) had three or more disabilities."


Where there's a will

"While many of us take for granted the ability to take a spontaneous trip or "wing it" when travelling, for those with a disability it is not that simple. Travelling with a disability, or accompanying a disabled traveller, takes a good deal of planning, research, patience and humour, but where there is a will, there is nearly always a way."

Monthly Forums Postponed

Due to our current lack of funding the monthly forums are cancelled for the rest of 2009. They will begin again in 2010 when we have found more funding. Watch this space!!