Service Guide Lower South West Community First Service description Community First is a WA, not for profit organisation which for 30 years has been successfully providing support and assistance to people to help them ‘

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• Family
• Caregiver
• Disability

People and Communities SpringAbout the magazine ‘People and Communities’ is produced by the Disability Services Commission’s state-wide Local Area Coordination program. Local Area Coordinators (LACs) are bas

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• Person-centred planning
• Sense
• Developmental disability
• Disability rights movement
• Rob Pyne
• Disability
• Health
• Independent living

The State Government allocates funding to support people with disability and their families and carers. The Disability Services Commission (the Commission) operates a number of streams through which funding is allocated

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Transitioning management of accommodation services to nongovernment providers Update for families – July 2014 First group of people to transition A group of people living in one of the Group 1 houses has recently chose

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• Population
• Developmental disability
• Transition methodology
• Medicine
• Education
• Disability
• Health
• Educational psychology

See the opportunity Design for all In Western Australia there are more than 400,000 people with disability. This is a significant percentage of the consumer market and it’s growing. An aging population and other facto

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• Accessibility
• Assistive technology
• Subtitling
• Usability
• Web design
• Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
• Design for All
• Disability
• Closed captioning
• Design
• Web accessibility
• Computing

Transitioning management of accommodation services to non-government providers Update for families, April 2014 The transition process to non-government service providers is underway for about 80 people currently supporte

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• Fisheries science
• Fisheries management
• Overfishing
• Sustainable fishery
• Artisan fishing
• Gillnetting
• Bycatch
• Yellowfin tuna
• Mauritius
• Fishing
• Fish
• Fishing industry

Requirements for Disability Access and Inclusion Plans Information for Councillors of Local Governments An introduction to the needs and rights of people with disability and the role of Local Government in meeting those

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• Disability
• Sociology
• Educational psychology
• Social theories
• Accessibility
• Ableism
• Inclusion
• Disability rights movement
• Carers rights movement
• Disability rights
• Health
• Education

Aboriginal children and young people speak out about culture and identity “A strong culture; fighting for your culture.” Kimberley children What do children and young people say about being acknowledged? In 2009 the

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• Oceania
• Indigenous Australians
• Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
• Stolen Generations
• Indigenous peoples of Australia
• Australian Aboriginal culture
• Australia

Service Guide Lower South West Multiple Sclerosis Society of WA (Inc) Service description The Multiple Sclerosis Society of WA (Inc) (MSWA) supports people with multiple sclerosis (MS), and other neurological conditions,

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• Special education
• Therapy
• Medicine
• Occupational therapy
• Rehabilitation medicine

Fact Sheet: WA NDIS My Way Reviewing and appealing decisions WA NDIS My Way supports people with disability, their families and carers to maximise their level of choice and control. This includes the right to request a r

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• Lawsuits
• Legal procedure
• Law
• Appeal
• Appellate review