03/12/2025
🌏 This year’s theme for International Day of People with Disability is:
🌟 “Fostering disability inclusive societies for advancing social progress.”
❗Those words are quite a mouthful!
💡 It is important to help build communities that include people with disability in every part of life.
🤝 Inclusion happens when we design things for everyone from the start, not as an afterthought.
🫴 Here are some ways you can help create inclusive environments for people with disability:
👂 Listen: Ask for their input about what support or changes would make things better.
🔨 Design: Build workplaces, services and public spaces that are accessible from the start.
🎤 Educate: Challenge stereotypes and promote understanding about disability and inclusion.
👥 Collaborate: Work with people with disability to create lasting change.
🌱 Inclusion is not just about access – it is about participation, belonging and opportunity for everyone.
⭐ At The Growing Space, we met with NDIA Board members to let them know a bunch of things the NDIS could do better to be more inclusive.
💬 They listened and asked lots of great questions.
💭 What is something you have done recently to create inclusivity for people with disability in your community?
Pic desc: A photo of some of our team with NDIA Board members at a meeting, all smiling. Richard (Board), Melissa (NDIA), Leah (Board) with guide dog Easton, Sam (TGS), Denis (Board), Natalie, Zac and Kirralee (TGS). There are TGS and Make it Easy banners behind them.
