Kerrie Duff Consulting

31/12/2024

09/12/2024

"There is a damning and important body of evidence regarding gender-based violence against women and girls with disability gathered by the Disability Royal Commission. Unfortunately, this hasn’t been included in violence prevention and responses for women and girls," Disability Discrimination Commissioner Rosemary Kayess said.
“All women and girls have the right to be safe. And yet almost half of women with cognitive disability and psychological disability have experienced sexual violence," S*x Discrimination Commissioner Dr Anna Cody said.

07/12/2024

Meet Ameera! A playful 8-year-old with a passion for science and basketball, she uses her wheelchair or forearm crutches due to a spinal cord injury. Ameera, a beloved friend from Ahlan Simsim اهلا سمسم, brings visibility to the 240 million children worldwide estimated to have a disability. On International Day of Persons with Disabilities and every day, we support the dignity, rights, and well-being of all people with disabilities.

02/12/2024

IDPwD is tomorrow: Dec 3rd.
The United Nations theme chosen for 2024 is: Amplifying the leadership of persons with disabilities for an inclusive and sustainable future.

[Music plays as image appears of Sara Shams smiling, and then Images move through to show Hayden Moon smiling at the camera with a laptop, and then Cooper Smith DJing]

02/12/2024

This. ✨✨✨

02/12/2024

02/12/2024

For caregivers and educators.

02/12/2024

In Wicked's 21-year history as a musical, Marissa Bode is the first wheelchair user to portray Nessarose. This is a significant milestone in representation, but as Bode shared with Today, this is just the beginning: “There’s so much more when it comes to fighting for accessibility and inclusion, so I hope feeling less alone helps other disabled people and emboldens them to advocate for themselves.” We hope to see the film inspire growing inclusivity inside and outside of the entertainment industry. 👏

28/11/2024

Assume capacity.

28/11/2024

Wheelchair tennis champion Wayne Arnott had run out of competition in Perth, but he's now serving it up to able-bodied opponents in the state pennants competition.

21/11/2024

Some may know that Microboards Australia partnered with Curtin University over the past 2 years to create and now run two Post Graduate Certificates, one in Positive Behaviour Support and the other in Complex Communication Needs.

The courses share the same foundational units that are essential for all people who seek to partner with people with disability to have good lives and have their needs met. In fact, if students do 6 units they graduate with both certificates!

This is a really big deal to us as the courses focus on partnering with people with disability and having the skills of being an effective communication partner in ways that seeks to promote the person's own leadership in their life, to learn about their experiences and needs and to better meet their needs.

The courses are co-produced with lived experience educators and at all times are human rights informed and neuroaffirming.
Some enrolled students have now finished the PBS course. Some are still moving through. The students doing the CCN units are also halfway through having done the 'foundation' units.

Some of our Microboards Community have been part of co-designing and contributing to these courses. We also hope to get more funding and time to keep this going so that lived experience coproduction elements can increase over time.

Here are some comments from two students, one who is a teacher, and one a pyschologist, that sum up how most are finding the course.

"As a result of doing these first 2 units, the flow on effect with how I am working is that classrooms are understanding students more and implementing the strategies they really need more often and in the right ways. We are seeing more change in the approaches of teachers and impact on students."

“I have been studying a really long time- I started in early childhood education and moved into special education, then almost completed a nursing degree before I transfered and completed undergrad psychology. I've done family therapy training and now this. I don't feel any of those other courses have ever fundamentally changed my soul like this one has. It is transformative every week to reflect and see the parts of me- that are there because of my birth/family/upbringing/relationships, that have never considered some really important barriers in this world and feel a change in how I feel/think and see people within my community. Not just people with disability but everyone."

If you would like to know more or want to send on to people you know we have attached a flyer. We are also holding an information forum for people who would like to know more. The links to the information sessions are here:

21/11/2024