Useful Website Links
Listed below are other websites you may find useful.
Support for Carers:
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General Links:
- Alzheimers Australia - provides support and advice for people living with dementia as well as their families
and carers.
- Australian Council of Social Service (ACOSS) - campaigns to create a better and fairer Australia by improving the lives of people on low incomes.
- Australian Rehabilitation & Assistive Technology Association (ARATA) - an association which acts as a forum for information sharing and liaison between people who are involved with assistive technology.
- Australian Sports Commission - information on sport for people with a disability.
- Australians Working Together - a range of initiatives to help people move forward.
- Better Health Channel - provides reliable, up-to-date information on health related issues.
- Carers Australia - provides information about unpaid care and support for family members and friends who have a disability, mental illness, chronic condition, terminal illness or who are frail.
- Commonwealth Rehabilitation Service (CRS) - helps people with an injury or disability to get and keep employment, and to assist employers to secure the safest work environment for their employees.
- Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission Disability Rights (HREOC) - deals with matters relating to discrimination on the grounds of race, colour or ethnic origin, racial vilification, gender, harassment, marital status, pregnancy, or disability.
- Information on Disability, Equipment, Access & Services (IDEAS) - provides information to people with disabilities.
- Medicare - Australia's universal health insurance scheme, which makes health care more affordable for all Australians.
- National Council on Intellectual Disability - aims to improve the quality of life of people with intellectual disability.
- National Ethnic Disability Alliance - promotes the rights of people from non-English speaking backgrounds with
disabilities throughout Australia.
- National Industry Association for Disability Services (ACROD) - a national organisation that is responsible for operating several thousand services to people with disabilities and their families.
- Women With Disabilities Australia - addresses the particular needs of women with disabilities in Australia.
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Hearing Impairment:
- Australian Association of the Deaf - a national, voluntary consumer organisation that represents the views of Deaf people who use Australian Sign Language (AUSLAN).
- Australian Communication Exchange (ACE) - an organisation that helps to empower Deaf, hearing impaired and speech impaired Australians by providing equal access to telecommunication technology through services such as the National Relay Service (NRS).
- Australian Deaf Sports Federation - encourages and aims to increase the level and standard of sports participation and performance for all Deaf Australians.
- Australian Hearing Services - aims to provide the best hearing care, the latest in hearing aid technology and
to lead the world in hearing research to people up to the age of 21 as well as most aged pensioners, most veterans and war widows.
- Better Hearing Australia Inc - a non-profit, self-help organisation that gives an Australia-wide community
support service of rehabilitation and help for Australia's hearing impaired.
- Deafness Forum of Australia - improving the quality of life for Australians who are Deaf, have a hearing
impairment or have a chronic disorder of the ear.
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Mental Health:
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Physical Impairment:
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Visual Impairment:
- Blind Citizens Australia - the united voice of blind and vision impaired Australians.
- Vision Australia - works in partnership with people who are blind or vision impaired and their families,
to expand the choices available to them.
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