Disability Awareness Training

One in five Australians have a disability.

Over 90% of disabilities are invisible.

Disability can be defined as a impairment in normal functioning. This impairment may be physical, intellectual, developmental, behavioural, cognitive, sensory, neurological, physiological, or any combination of these.

Nine in ten Australians over the age of 90 will have some type of disability. 

The likelihood of disability increases with age. Thus disability will affect all of us at some stage of our lives. Whether it is personally or a family member. The issue of disability is not going to go away. People with disabilities are not going to be segregated into gated communities.

The introduction of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) is designed to increase the community participation of careers, families and individuals living with disabilities.

The arrival of the NDIS in Queensland will see more Queenslanders with disability in mainstream schools, higher education, employment, sport and recreation and

 community life.

The key goal of ArtISability is to link our artists to their local arts community to achieve their individual artistic goals. 

  

In September most of our artists were involved in a collective art exhibition at the art gallery - at Ipswich Arttime supplies. 

Not all artist with disabilities are impaired by their disability when it comes to their ability to 

produce art.

The above work is by Judith Baker, an Ipswich artists who happens to have a physical disability.

Judith is an ArtISability tutor and mentor.

When asked how her particular disability has affected her career as an artists she didn't think it had any impact at all.

"Once my artwork is hang on an art gallery wall my disability becomes invisible . . ."

A dream we want all our artist to be able to achieve at some point in the future.

In 2015 all our staff must undertake disability awareness training to be involved in our programs. We also recommend the training to artists and teachers who think they may want to work with artists with disabilities in the future. 

We are offering free Disability training to the Ipswich Community on 

28th November 2014

9:30 am at the Barry Jones Autorium,
40 South Street, Ipswich

Phone: 3281 3218 for more information