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What is the Disability Gateway?

The Disability Gateway will:

• improve the navigation to access relevant information and services
• span multiple sectors including health, housing, employment, transport and everyday living
• exist as a central point of entry for referrals to disability information, services and programs

The Disability Gateway is an Australian Government initiative.

Who is the Disability Gateway for?

The Disability Gateway is for all people with disability, their families and carers.

How do I provide feedback about the Disability Gateway?

Leave your feedback via the feedback link on the website.

How do I contact the Disability Gateway?

You can call the Disability Gateway on 1800 643 787 or send an email to disabilitygateway@benevolent.org.au.

How do service providers list their service?

Service providers can request to be listed on Ask Izzy by submitting a form to add a service.

Communications products about the Disability Gateway

Communications products about the Disability Gateway are available to download.

Translated information about the Disability Gateway

Translated information about the Disability Gateway is available.

What if English is not my first language?

If you would like to have the Disability Gateway webpages translated, you can phone the Translating and Interpreting Service on 13 14 50. The service can translate in more than 100 languages and is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

What if I can understand English, but have trouble reading it?

If you need to listen to the information on the Disability Gateway, you can use Readspeaker to automatically change written text to speech. Click the ‘Listen’ button on any page and it will be read aloud to you.

What if I have a hearing or speech impairment?

If you need to talk with someone about this website, you can contact the Disability Gateway through the National Relay Service by:

• visiting the National Relay Service to choose how you would like to use the service

To go to the Disability Gateway home page click here.

Monash Sensory Science Presents 10 Multisensory Science Books

What is Peer Mentoring?

Peer mentoring is when a senior student provides support and guidance to new students.

Mentors use their experience as a current Monash student to help new students transition to university and build friendships in their faculty.

How Does Peer Mentoring Work at Monash?

All new undergraduate students are matched with a peer mentor in their managing faculty, and placed in a small mentoring group (5-10 students) with other first-year students.

Mentoring takes place across the semester with four main sessions:

• Welcome and connect
• You and our University
• You and your study success
• You and your assessments

Beyond this, mentors check in and offer support to their mentees at various times.

Programs are faculty or school based, so the content is relevant for the mentees and they get to know a group of students in a similar area of study. Throughout the program, there are social events and professional development opportunities for both mentors and mentees to attend.

• For more information, see the Monash University Peer Mentoring page

Applications to NAB’s 2022 Summer Intern Program are now open!

Victorian Department of Treasury and Finance Kickstarting Interns’ Careers

The Victorian Department of Treasury and Finance (DTF) are accelerating career trajectories for talented Stepping Into interns.

The process aims to place interns into permanent positions and expose them to opportunities across the department.

All the while, the department is building up their disability confidence and creating an inclusive and diverse workplace culture – providing benefits for all participating in the Stepping Into program.

With AND’s support, DTF kicked off the Stepping Into program and established multiple processes to assist interns participating in the program.

• Read more about the DTF’s support of people with disability on the AND website.

AND’s Accessible Procurement Taskforce launches the ‘ICT Tender Tool’

At AND’s Annual National Conference: Igniting Innovation through Inclusion, the AND-established Accessible Procurement Taskforce launched the ICT Tender Tool.

What is the ICT Tender Tool?

The ICT Tender Tool supports organisations to procure accessible and inclusive Information and Communication Technology (ICT).

The ICT tool can also be used to evaluate and determine the accessibility of ICT resources.

“The tool clearly articulates what accessible goods and services look like,” says Matt Hawkins, ANZ, Chair of the Accessible Procurement Taskforce. “Secondly, it provides responses that are easy for evaluation teams to score.”

• You can read more about the ICT Tender Tool on AND’s website.

Professional Development Workshops for Young Deaf and Disabled People

Arts Access Victoria is offering free professional development workshops for young Deaf and Disabled people, aged 18-26, from early August 2021. 

The program is called Nexus – full details are on the website here (www.artsaccess.com.au/whats-on/nexus_2021/), and attached program flyer.

It’s designed for young Victorian-based Deaf and Disabled people with, or interested to pursue, a career or practice within the arts.

Participate in an Accessibility Study with Kmart

Kmart is planning a study for the accessibility of Kmart online and seeking participants who are willing to share their valuable insight and opinion.

It’s an hour interview on Zoom, and you can meet online in your comfortable setting as usual.

There is nothing to prepare, except for your curiosity and kindness to tell something to them.

Kmart offers a gift card worth $120 for the successful candidates to show their appreciation.

Criteria for Participation in this Study

For the criteria for people to participate in this study, please refer to the information below:

• Over 18 year old

• who are blind, have low vision or cognitive impairment

• who use a screen reader or a screen magnifier

• Often shop online with multiple websites (welcome Kmart customer!)

If you want to join, please click here and complete participant form. Once you complete the form, you will contacted shortly to arrange the session for you.

• Please feel free to contact the researcher if you have any questions. (Email: Jieun.Mok@kmart.com.au)

Vision Australia 2022 Further Education Bursary – Applications Now Open

Each year, Vision Australia awards Further Education Bursaries to a select number of students who are blind or have low vision.

The bursaries provide adaptive technology to help students fully participate and succeed in their chosen studies.

Assistive technology can eliminate barriers to education and enhance access to information. It enables students to read course material, conduct research and improve their student life.

For more information and details on how to apply, please visit:

www.visionaustralia.org/bursary

• Applications close strictly on 30 September 2021.

If you have any queries or would like to speak with Vision Australia’s bursary coordinator, please feel free to make direct contact:

Joy King

Ph:     03 8378 1220

E:       joy.king@visionaustralia.org