Different Abilities SA

10/12/2025

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07/12/2025

Girls just want to have fun 🛍️

04/12/2025

Fast and the furious FRIDAY! 🚙 💨

03/12/2025

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01/12/2025

💪 Strength Looks Different for Everyone

At Different Abilities 🫶🏼, we know strength isn’t always loud.
It isn’t always shown in muscles, milestones, or medals.

Sometimes strength is:
✨ Getting out of bed on a tough day
✨ Asking for help when you need it
✨ Advocating for your needs
✨ Managing pain, fatigue, overwhelm or uncertainty
✨ Showing up exactly as you are
✨ Pushing through barriers that others don’t even see

People with disability demonstrate some of the strongest resilience, courage and determination every single day — even when the world doesn’t recognise it.

Today, we celebrate the quiet strength, the unseen strength, and the everyday strength that deserves to be honoured.

Your strength matters. Your story matters. YOU matter.
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— DifferentAbilities SA

29/11/2025

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26/11/2025

💙 Understanding Relapsing-Remitting Multiple Sclerosis (RRMS)

Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is a lifelong condition that affects the central nervous system — the brain and spinal cord. In Relapsing-Remitting MS, people experience periods of relapse (when new symptoms appear or existing ones worsen) followed by remission (when symptoms partially or completely settle).

Every person’s journey with MS is different — some days are stronger than others, and that’s okay. 💫

One treatment option for RRMS is Natalizumab (Tysabri) — now available as a subcutaneous (under the skin) injection, given twice on the same day every 4 weeks.
This medication works by helping to reduce inflammation and slow the progression of MS, offering hope and stability for many living with this condition.

🌿 Living with MS takes courage, patience, and community.
At Different Abilities SA, we support individuals to live life fully — with care, respect, and understanding.

23/11/2025

💬 It’s Okay to Ask for Help 💙

Having a disability doesn’t mean doing everything alone.
Asking for help isn’t weakness — it’s strength, self-awareness, and courage.

🌿 Sometimes help looks like a hand to hold.
🌿 Sometimes it’s support with daily tasks.
🌿 Sometimes it’s just someone to listen and understand.

At Different Abilities SA, we believe in building a community where people feel safe, heard, and supported to ask for what they need — with dignity and respect.

Because independence doesn’t mean doing it alone — it means having the right support by your side. 💙

21/11/2025

Is too early to start Christmas cooking….. we think not! 🎄🦌

18/11/2025

💙 Not Every Disability Is Visible 💙

Some disabilities can’t be seen — but that doesn’t mean they aren’t real.
Many people live every day with challenges like chronic pain, fatigue, mental health conditions, neurological disorders, or sensory sensitivities that others may not notice.

✨ Be kind.
✨ Be patient.
✨ Don’t judge what you can’t see.

At Different Abilities SA, we believe every person deserves understanding, respect, and support — seen or unseen.
Because inclusion means everyone. 💙

16/11/2025

🫶🏼 Understanding MND
(Motor Neurone Disease)

Motor Neurone Disease (MND) affects the nerves that control movement — the motor neurones — causing them to gradually stop sending signals from the brain to the muscles. Over time, this leads to weakness, loss of mobility, and difficulties with speech, swallowing, and breathing.

💙 But strength comes in many forms.
People living with MND show incredible courage, resilience, and positivity every single day.

At Different Abilities SA, we believe in supporting individuals and families through understanding, connection, and care — helping everyone live life with dignity, purpose, and compassion.

👉 Let’s spread awareness and kindness.
💬 Learn, share, and support MND research and care.

14/11/2025

If your child has NDIS funding for early childhood intervention, therapy supports or behaviour support, you want to know your provider uses quality practices.

We partnered with the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission to develop a guide to explain what quality practices do and don’t look like, and help you choose the right provider for you and your child.

We detail how a provider must:

put the safety and wellbeing of your child at the centre of what they do
offer quality service that represents best practice
focus on positive outcomes for your child and family
meet your needs and expectations
promote inclusion and social participation
make sure their support improves the quality of life for your child and family.
In the guide, we cover topics with examples in the following areas:

Decision-making: providers must respect your child’s rights to freedom of expression, self-determination and decision-making.
Privacy and dignity: providers must respect your child’s right to privacy and protect their dignity.
Safety checks: providers must offer services to NDIS participants in a safe manner with care and skill.
Competent and professional services: providers must offer supports to NDIS participants in a competent manner with care and skill.
Early childhood supports: providers must offer high-quality and safe supports to NDIS participants.
Specialist behaviour support: providers must offer positive behaviour support appropriate to a child’s needs, use evidence-informed practices, and follow state and territory laws.
Integrity, honesty and transparency: providers must act with honesty and transparency and do the right thing.
We also offer the following:

Questions you can ask when choosing a provider for your child.
Your options if you want to make a complaint.

We have made an easy-read Quality Supports for Children booklet, to help you understand in simple terms what providers should and must not do when providing care to your children.

A list of what services should be provided to your child to support their needs can be found in the booklet.

Check out the easy read booklet at 💻 https://ow.ly/1jQ550XoaBi

NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission