People with intellectual disability (PwID) make amazing contributions to their family and our community. Please help us recruit PwID to our photovoice contribution project, so we can better understand this contribution. See here 3dn.unsw.edu.au/projects/measu… CID ASID_Ltd

A new campaign calls on Australia to address the "stark" health inequalities faced by people with intellectual disability CID Julian Trollor UNSW Medicine & Health abc.net.au/news/2022-03-0…

22 days to the budget People with intellectual disability need you to fund their health Centre of Excellence Josh Frydenberg Simon Birmingham Not ScoMo @GregHuntMP @dana_advocacy El Gibbs Cátia Malaquias Kirsten Deane Graeme Innes BronwynHemsley Inclusion Australia Down Syndrome Aus

130 eminent people call for action on the health of people with intellectual disability - Graeme Innes Anne Kavanagh BMBS PhD FAFPHM FASSA FAHMS Christine Bigby Prof Eileen Baldry Robert Tickner Cátia Malaquias @QCIDD bit.ly/3HYXtiy Over to you Josh Frydenberg @birmo @GregHuntMP Mark Butler MP

10 days to #Budget22 Josh Frydenberg Simon Birmingham Not ScoMo @GregHuntMP People with intellectual disability are looking to you. Dying 27 years younger with up to 50% of deaths preventable. We must stop the #deadlydisabilitydiscrimination Now!

Our recent paper in PLOS One (tinyurl.com/mrkpacxu) shows that there is an urgent need for a nation-wide disability flag to ensure people with disabilities can get reasonable adjustments when they go to hospital #intellectualdisability

Our new centre here at @AHSRI_UOW. Welcome Palliative Aged Care Outcomes Program. Improving aged care at end of life was a major recommendation of the Aged Care Royal Commission. I’m delighted Palliative Aged Care Outcomes Program will help drive that UOW PCOC @PCACEO Palliative Care Nurses Australia (PCNA) ACSA National ANMF - Australian Nursing Midwifery Federation ANZSPM ANZSGM

"We hope it gets greater recognition of the way people with disability are treated … and most importantly paid” talking with Studio 10 this morning about the #DisabilityRC focus on ADEs. #LowPayNoWay #EqualPayEqualRespect

NSW Easter Road Toll. What a tragic loss. So preventable. I am expecting community outrage over these statistics- too little prevention, too many senseless deaths. Thanks Jolyon Gray for highlighting these numbers. Gov & media clearly isn’t interested @AHSRI_UOW Croakey News

Sullivan called for action. @GregHuntMP has now put out $28m for a national intellectual disability health centre and research. bit.ly/3rCecTk #EndDeadlyDisabilityDiscrimination Inclusion Australia Down Syndrome Aus @3DN_UNSW El Gibbs Jacki Small Jenny Proimos @QCIDD

And YES again. Mark Butler MP has confirmed Labor will fully match the @GregHuntMP commitment. Great to have bipartisanship on #EndDeadlyDisabilityDiscrimination Inclusion Australia Down Syndrome Aus @3DN_UNSW @dana_advocacy El Gibbs Every Australian Counts Cátia Malaquias Anne Kavanagh BMBS PhD FAFPHM FASSA FAHMS

Such a familiar story. People w/ disability & their family living in inaccessible &/or unaffordable housing, making do bc there are no other housing options theguardian.com/australia-news…

Proud of my very first, first author paper. tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108…

We are proud to announce that A/Prof Grahame Simpson has won the Allied Health Researcher of the Year at the 2022 NSW Excellence in Allied Health Awards! Grahame leads the Brain Injury Rehabilitation Research Group here at the Ingham Institute. inghaminstitute.org.au/news_item/cong…

This should be totally unbelievable. Woman with dementia, 95 and 43kg. On a walking frame and holding a knife. Slowly approached police. They tasered her. Left her in critical condition. theguardian.com/australia-news…

“My greatest wish is that every person with intellectual disability who is dying has access to high quality palliative care.” Thanks Maria Heaton for sharing your story with us for Palliative Care Week. Read more at 3dn.unsw.edu.au/news/how-can-w… UNSW Medicine & Health #NPCW2023 Palliative Care Australia

barbie’s wheelchair vs my actual wheelchair: a critical comparison aka the best twitter thread i will ever post strap in #Barbie

Fiona Mackenzie CID closes the launch of the Centre of Excellence in Intellectual Disability Health. “This Centre will give us a voice” @3DN_UNSW Melbourne Disability Institute Inclusion Australia Down Syndrome Aus Queenslanders with Disability Network Anne Kavanagh BMBS PhD FAFPHM FASSA FAHMS

This! “You assume that I can’t hit harder, so I don’t hit harder”

I got kicked off my Qantas flight b/c there was another electric chair. C’mon Qantas and Virgin Australia - it’s time you showed some leadership for the 1 in 5 Australians with disability and acted to change the design of planes to accommodate us. We’re demanding change.