An excellent resource, in a new, accessible format, from a highly credible source: From Lettercase , publishers of good quality informatio...

Supporting people with Dual Diagnosis – Intellectual Disability, Mental Health and Rights-based Approaches This e-book will help you unde...

As the National Disability Insurance Scheme rolls out nationally from this week , there is a great deal of information coming from the sche...

We were sorry to hear that Betty (Elizabeth Mary) Hook died on 1 July, at the age of 89. Betty was a highly regarded and much loved early...

Click here for Down Syndrome NSW events These links provide information about events run by other organisations that might be of inte...

Advocacy, Inclusion And Diversity: An Evening With Jamie Brewer Bus Stop Films , 3 June 2016 Excitement buzzed on the night of May 25th, ...

Latest information on the   NSW Council on Intellectual Disability 2016 annual conference : Preview of speakers Click here to do...

From NSW CID e-news, June 2016: NSW Council on Intellectual Disability has been working on a lot of issues related to transport and pe...

The 2016 Trevor Parmenter Lecture will be given by Professor Tim Stainton on the Nature and ethics of the growing trend towards the el...

A year of love and joy for Jillian and Ryan Paul Daugherty , 27 June 2016 One year ago today, Jillian Daugherty and Ryan Mavriplis exch...

Today the NDIS moves from a handful of trial sites to the beginning of full roll out to people with disability across Australia. Over the ...

Election 2016: Parties respond to ACDA election platform Australian Cross Disability Alliance , 30 June 2016 The major political parties ...

Coincidental to our previous post, this appeared on Facebook today.  Now would be a good time to start following the  Adult Down Syndrome Cl...

CID takes National Action on Health NSW Council on Intellectual Disability , 30 May 2016 Thank you to the many friends of NSW CID who hav...

Disability rights around the world: from 1944 to the present day The Guardian , 22 June 2016 Since the second world war, disability leg...

Disability Australia Election Platform 2016 Disability Australia calls on all political parties to support our Election Platform. View the ...

From Down Syndrome Australia, via Facebook today (Note the survey closes on Thursday 30th June ): The Australian Curriculum, Assessment an...

Down Syndrome Australia: Easy Read Facebook page   - complements the Easy Read edition of the  Down Syndrome Australia website Accessibl...

In May this year Dennis McGuire visited Australia to deliver a series of seminars to families, health professionals and support workers...

Entwined , by Joyce Wallace Scott, is due to be released 28 June 2016 Judith Scott, despite the challenges of Down syndrome, profound dea...