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Disability Services and Information

• Anti-Discrimination Commission can help if you've been discriminated against in employment, education and many other areas.
   
• Art Access for Ipswich is a platform for enabling artists with an impairment to showcase their art on the World Wide Web
   
• CODA South - Carers of Disabled Adults is an organisation that was established to meet the needs of families caring for an adult with a disability in their own homes.
   
• Department of Disability Services Queensland, includes database of disability services in Queensland
   
• Disability Information & Communication Exchange
   
• Help Enterprises is a community-based, not-for-profit organisation established in 1968 by Rotary to assist in the support of people with disabilities. We operate from 5 sites in the greater Brisbane area and employ a fully integrated workforce of nearly 200 disabled and able-bodied people in a variety of industries.
   
• Human Rights and Equal Opportunities Commission (HREOC)  
   
• Lifestream Foundation (was Q-Rapid) provides Sport and Recreation opportunities to people with an intellectual disability. The programs focus on friendships and social skills as well as participation for all.  
   
• Physical Disability Council of Australia Ltd (PDCA) PDCA is run entirely by people with physical disabilities, for people with physical disabilities. It does not discriminate on the basis of disability, nor does PDCA determine what a physical disability is. PDCA operates under an inclusion policy and offers membership and/or services to any person with a disability who seeks our support.
   
• Nursing Group P/L Qld Branch We are a private nursing service that supplies home based nursing and domestic care. Specialising in physical disabilities, brain injury and the frail aged.
    
• Radio 4RPH : Radio for the Print Handicapped
   
• Queensland Amputee Golf Association Inc (QAGA) A registered association and charity promoting and providing golf as a viable form of rehabilitation and recreation to amputees in Queensland.
   
• Queensland Meals on Wheels Services Association Inc is a community service organised to help the frail aged, younger disabled and their carers to live in the community where they are happiest - in their own homes.
   
• Technical Aid to the Disabled, Qld Inc. (TADQ)
  TADQ volunteers make aids that are not commercially available, or is too expensive for individuals, by volunteers.. at absolute minimum cost... no labour charge! TADQ work with individuals, Special Schools or any genuine person in need of a gadget or an aid for their lifestyle. We also have a computer rental interest.. at very low cost to the disabled using donated computers renovated and installed by volunteers.  
   
• VCFS - Velo Cardio Facial Syndrome Foundation (Qld) Inc Velo Cardio Facial Syndrome is a genetic condition. It is caused by the deletion of some genetic material from Number 22 chromosome (referred to as the 22q11 deletion).
   
• accessibility.com.au  - The disability information resource.
   
• National Industry Association for Disability Services (ACROD) is the National Industry Association for Disability Services. ACROD's membership includes over 550 non-government, non-profit organisations, which collectively operate several thousand services for Australians with all types of disabilities, including intellectual, physical, psychiatric and sensory. ACROD's members are located in every State and Territory in Australia and range in size from very small support groups to very large service providers.

Products to assist people with disabilities

• Book "A Penny for your Thoughts"  The book is an uplifting autobiography by Penny Harland, coauthored by Sarah Patterson. Penny Harland is now in her mid fifties but has been both deaf and blind since very early childhood. She now suffers with balance problems and a muscle wasting disease as well. As a young girl her education faltered when she was forced from school to take up work in a sheltered workshop making toilet brushes! What this lady has done since is truly inspirational! She has soldiered on to get a University education! She has earned a Bachelor of Arts, a Bachelor of Education and a Master of Education! Her elderly father is a war veteran who can barely walk from his bedroom. Her mother has suffered a stroke. Yet Penny still helps keep the family going! Now Penny has written an inspirational book to share her struggle and success with others - titled "A Penny for your Thoughts". 
   
• NEW! Achievable Concepts - Adapted recreation and sporting equipment for people with disabilities and the aged. Includes Beach wheelchairs, Cycling & trikes, Exercise equipment, Electric scooters & bikes, Fishing, Golf, Lawn bowls, Mt buggy/stroller, Motor cycling, Pool wheelchair, Seating, Snow skiing and Ten pin bowling products
     
• BadBacks has articles, discussion forums and a range of traditional & alternative back care products to help relieve injury or chronic pain conditions and help healing. They also have preventative products and relief for people (like me) who spend a lot of time sitting at computers.
  
• Mite-Y-Fresh - Sydney-based store featuring products for asthma and allergy sufferers that assist in controlling and protecting against airborne allergens. Includes Dust Mite Allergy Bedding, Dehumidifiers, and Air Purifiers.