Content by young people with disability. Talking about policy, advocacy and lived experience.
Caitlin Blanch explores how overcoming fear of the unfamiliar and embracing new technologies can empower people with disability.
PhD candidate, aspiring cognitive scientist, and 2024 Westpac Future Leader Brynlea Gibson chats with Adam Choong about artificial intelligence, education, and disability.
Adam Choong discusses the role artificial intelligence may play in educating children and young people with disability.
Nicola DiBona writes about the teachers who helped and hindered her education journey, and shares a poem about her experience.
Louise Weekley breaks down how a lack of funding for public schooling and other socio-economic factors disadvantage students with disability.
Self-proclaimed ‘mad scientist’ Adam Choong discusses the barriers facing young people with disability with an interest in STEM.
Dureece, Thanh and Britt talk about discrimination in recruitment, how they prepare for job interviews, and advocating for their rights in the workplace.
Izzie Choate takes us on a tour of YDAN, talking about accessibility in the workplace as part of CYDA’s DREAM Employment Network.
Dureece Moyden covers what to do and what NOT to do when it comes to writing disabled characters.
Grace Garrahy talks Chloé Hayden, Heartbreak High and the power of positive representation in media.
Louise Weekley discusses the prevalence of ‘inspiration porn’ in popular culture and how it harms people with disability.
Caitlin Blanch writes about Netflix’s Sex Education’s provocative take on the social model of disability.
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