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ACL Disability Services

Helping adults with mild to moderate learning disabilities live as independently as possible in the general community. Home of Gig Buddies Sydney

This is a non-profit organisation oriented to service people with mild to moderate intellectual disability.

18/12/2025

As of midday today, the team at ACL HQ are logging off.

Our lines of communication, along with ACL HQ, will reopen from 9am on Monday 5 January.

17/12/2025

“[Her win] begins to erase that border between the neurotypical and neurodiverse artist. You suddenly become aware that actually it’s been a boundary around our history, and around contemporary art. But that boundary is dissolving.”

https://bit.ly/4rW48SQ

15/12/2025

“Elderly people aged 65 and over now make up nearly 30% of Japan's population - the second-highest proportion in the world after Monaco, according to the World Bank.

The crisis is further compounded by a shrinking workforce and tight limits on foreign workers coming in to provide care.”

https://bit.ly/4iYsibj

10/12/2025

“Isobel Lepist built up a successful international career as a therapist despite being told as a child that she was "thick because I couldn't do numbers or maths”

Reading an article about another woman with anxiety led her to seek help and her eventual diagnosis, which then prompted her to help other people with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).”

https://bit.ly/4aD2DCJ

08/12/2025

“UK Sport, the body that funds Olympic and Paralympic sports, has signed a contract worth more than £300,000 to give thousands of athletes access to an app that detects and hides abusive posts sent by other users on social media.”

https://bit.ly/4a3yIUi

26/11/2025

“Alex is grateful to his parents for thinking so progressively during a time when neurodivergence wasn’t properly understood”

https://bit.ly/4ocHGle

24/11/2025

"It's about the experience of meeting new people and bonding, plus you learn new things all the time”

https://bit.ly/43P9xRn

19/11/2025

“An entrepreneur who secured backing from all five dragons on Dragons' Den has said he has been "humbled" by people's response to his disability app.”

https://bit.ly/3XvYx7E

17/11/2025

“The subtitles appear through the glasses as captions with a handheld controller allowing the viewer to change the size, position, colour, focal-length and brightness of the text.”

https://bit.ly/4r4IUBP

12/11/2025

“After decades of loneliness and depression, Cathleen Caffrey had come to think of herself as a bad person. Then she learned about others who had struggled to fit in …”

https://bit.ly/47yeMXY

10/11/2025

“Creatives with disability looking to gain professional experience with leading NSW arts, screen and music organisations can now apply for accessible and inclusive internships for 2026.”

https://bit.ly/4hWMaey

05/11/2025

“What if there could be a nationally-recognized visual sign that law enforcement could identify from afar? It would signal an invisible disability, and change the perspective of the officer assessing the situation, highlighting the need for more patience.

This symbol already exists.”

https://bit.ly/48ViyM5

Address

125 Blues Point Road
McMahons Point, NSW
2060

Website

http://www.assistcom.org/

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