Episodes
Friday Apr 05, 2024
Have you thought about a mainstream school?
Friday Apr 05, 2024
Friday Apr 05, 2024
"Have you thought about a mainstream school?" touches on inclusive education and how it benefits both people with disability and the schooling community as a whole.
Friday Mar 01, 2024
The journey to self-acceptance
Friday Mar 01, 2024
Friday Mar 01, 2024
Click here to download and read the transcript of The journey to self-acceptance.
Friday Feb 16, 2024
Friday Feb 16, 2024
Years ago, Andrew Gibson embarked on a journey of learning to drive after experiencing brain injury. This led to regained confidence, independence, and access to social and employment opportunities. In short, it was life-changing.
Today, Andrew is the Project Leader for SKILL, an individual capacity building project, and in this special edition podcast episode, he talks to Brad Williams, from Williams OT, about turning your dream of learning to drive into an actionable plan for living life the way you want.
Friday Feb 02, 2024
Friday Feb 02, 2024
Have you thought about how other countries and cultures view disability?
Esther takes us through her journey of battling cultural stigma around disability in Sudan, Uganda and Australia and the challenges of migrating to a new country and forging her path as a woman with disability from a linguistically diverse background!
Friday Jan 05, 2024
Rethinking the ideal parent
Friday Jan 05, 2024
Friday Jan 05, 2024
Join Mike and Lucilla, and Mikaila and Ivy as they talk about parenting with a disability, the challenges and solutions they overcame as a family, and how it’s changed their lives for the better.
Click here to download and read the transcript of Rethinking the ideal parent.
Friday Dec 01, 2023
Maybe I’ll just miss out: Changing the world by changing your mind
Friday Dec 01, 2023
Friday Dec 01, 2023
Join Lily as she talks about internalised ableism, how it's affected Lily throughout different stages of her life, and the challenge of forever trying to shape society to fit you, when it isn't designed for you.
Find out more about Lily's journey through school and motherhood and the constant, everyday battle against her own internal thoughts.
Friday Nov 03, 2023
Friday Nov 03, 2023
Monday Mar 28, 2022
6 Tips for Good Engagement
Monday Mar 28, 2022
Monday Mar 28, 2022
It is great that we are starting to hear more businesses, organisations and government talk about engaging the disability community. But, if they are only doing tokenistic, tick and flick engagement, it's not going to make much difference.
In this episode you will hear 6 key tips for good engagement. These tips come from the collective wisdom of the Local Government Disability Inclusion Advisory Group. It is made up of a group of 12 people, all of whom live with disability. They advise local councils on how to better include the disability community.
Friday Sep 03, 2021
Evolution of Self Understanding
Friday Sep 03, 2021
Friday Sep 03, 2021
Leanne's relationship with understanding herself as a disabled woman is a complex and ever-evolving process. She's at a point where she feels empowered and in control of her own narrative. This is her story of arriving there.
To read a transcript of this story, visit our website: https://www.purpleorange.org.au/stories/podcast-evolution-self-understanding
Thursday Aug 19, 2021
Claiming your right to risk [rerun]
Thursday Aug 19, 2021
Thursday Aug 19, 2021
Purple Orange is growing! We've hired so many new staff recently, including Ellen Fraser-Barbour as a policy and research leader. She featured in our second ever podcast episode!
It's a great episode about claiming your right to risk when you live with disability.
It's definitely worth a listen.