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Living on Awabakal land, Tanesha has used her NDIS funding to engage a mix of services, including culturally appropriate Indigenous providers.

Leading Aussie’s cheer squad at the World Dwarf Games is a challenge which fills Central Coast community advocate, Maree Jenner, with plenty of pride. Maree, who is a person of short stature, will be cheering hard for around 40 Australian athletes, who’ll attend the 8th edition of the Games in Cologne, Germany later this month. ‘I’m going there as a volunteer support person, and as part of the Short Statured People of Australia,’ Maree said. ‘I’m providing administration and coordination support, but I have another important role – cheering for Australia from the stands. ‘I wanted to go and be...

Peter Dempsey’s career is going from strength to strength. And he’s helping disability service providers improve, positively impacting the disability sector. With support from the NDIS, Peter draws on his own experiences of disability, adversity, and rehabilitation, to help individuals and organisations achieve their full potential. At 4 years old Peter had an unexplained stroke that left him unable to walk and talk. The right side of his body became paralysed, limiting his ability to move and communicate. ‘I was stubborn as hell to get out of the wheelchair,’ Peter says. ‘I decided early on that no one was going...

The future looks bright for Jeff Gooding. He feels he has found a new family – a house manager, support workers and house mates who all have his best interests at heart. Jeff, 50, has Multiple Sclerosis (MS). He also has seizures resulting in partial memory loss. Both challenging conditions, Jeff lived in Woolloomooloo with his elderly mum, who cared for him until she sadly passed away. Never married, an only child and with no children, Jeff lived alone until he had a fall. Not able to walk or manage on his own, he ended up in residential aged care...

Being diagnosed with level 3 autism at an early age, Gabe engages with the world as a non-speaking communicator, who uses different tools to express his thoughts and feelings.

Rockhampton teenager Joshua didn’t use spoken language until he was 5, now he’s singing at school events, volunteering at a tennis club and has his manual learner’s licence.