202210 CHCDIS003 - People we should know about! by https://padlet.com/sharyn_tonkin/lrd9ngvovatj8ecj Active participants, decision makers, leaders, spectator or volunteers who als identify as having a disability. en-us 2022-06-08 23:55:56 UTC 2022-06-09 03:29:17 UTC hello@padlet.com Margie https://padlet.com/sharyn_tonkin/lrd9ngvovatj8ecj/wish/2215717859 Dylan Alcott
Dylan Martin Alcott, AO is an Australian former wheelchair tennis player, former wheelchair basketball player, radio host and motivational speaker. Alcott was a member of the Australia men's national wheelchair basketball team, known colloquially as the Australian "Rollers

He was born with a tumour wrapped around his spinal cord which was operated on during the first few weeks of his life. The tumour was successfully cut out; however, it left Alcott a paraplegic, requiring him to use a wheelchair.

His strength and leadership is Motivational speaking.
National Spokesperson for the Australian Paralympic Committee.

He has a charitable foundation called "The Dylan Alcott Foundation. It's  core purpose is to help young Australians with disabilities gain confidence, fulfill their potential and achieve their dreams.

In 2018, he launched Ability Fest, a universally accessible music festival, featuring pathways for wheelchairs, quiet areas for people with sensory disabilities, and Auslan (Australian Sign Language) interpreters.

Alcott's biography, Able: Gold Medals, Grand Slams and Smashing Glass Ceilings, written with Grantlee Kieza, was published by ABC Books in 2018.

Has been awarded the  Medal of the Order of Australia in 2009 and Australian of the Year, Officer of the Order of Australia in 2022.





]]> 2022-06-09 02:49:24 UTC https://padlet.com/sharyn_tonkin/lrd9ngvovatj8ecj/wish/2215717859 Donna https://padlet.com/sharyn_tonkin/lrd9ngvovatj8ecj/wish/2215727885 Dr George Taleporos is a person with spinal muscular atrophy, (a group of hereditary diseases that progressively destroys motor neurons—nerve cells in the brain stem and spinal cord that control essential skeletal muscle activity such as speaking, walking, breathing, and swallowing, leading to muscle weakness and atrophy).

Dr George Taleporos is a disability rights advocate. He has over 20 years of experience in the disability field, focussed predominantly on advocacy, human rights policy and practice, service development and management. He has a PhD in the field of psychology, a Graduate Diploma in educational psychology and Honors in sociology.

Taleporos’s early experience as a child of 1980s segregated education was just the start of a long journey and career standing up for the rights of people with disability.
At 18, he "officially" took on an advocacy role by joining his local disability council, and he is not the Chairperson of the Victorian Disability Advisory Council. Dr George is the policy manager at Summer Foundation, which is passionate about stopping young people with disability from being forced into residential aged care, by helping them access the support needed to be in control of where, how and with whom they live.
An early supporter of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS), Taleporos was a vocal critic of the intrusive questioning that was part of the much maligned Independent Assessments trial. Instead of Independent Assessments, Taleporos would like to see the introduction of self-assessments and personalised budgets “that put people in complete control of the supports and more importantly, our lives. He says, "I also want to see the National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA) to have at least half its board members being people with disabilities.” Taleporos is watching the government closely to see what will happen next and has interviewed both NDIS minister Linda Reynolds and NIDIA CEO Martin Hoffmanon for his Reasonable and Necessary podcast for the Summer Foundation. 
“I constantly remind myself of how lucky I am to live in a country with a NDIS, it might not be perfect but it certainly is making a huge difference to thousands of lives across the country including my own,” Taleporos says. 

https://www.inlife.org.au/dr-george-taleporos-on-his-journey-to-advocacy

https://twitter.com/drgeorgethecrip





]]> 2022-06-09 02:59:08 UTC https://padlet.com/sharyn_tonkin/lrd9ngvovatj8ecj/wish/2215727885 Tash https://padlet.com/sharyn_tonkin/lrd9ngvovatj8ecj/wish/2215730317 Kurt Fearnley

Kurt Harry Fearnley, AO is an Australian wheelchair, who has won gold medals at the Paralympics and 'crawled' the Kokoda Tracks. He has a congenital disorder called sacral agenesis which prevented fetal development of certain parts of his lower spine and all of his sacrum. In Paralympic events he is classified in the T54 classification. He focuses on long and middle-distance wheelchair races, and has also won medals in sprint relays. He participated in the 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012 and 2016 Summer Paralympic Games, finishing his Paralympic Games career with thirteen medals (three gold, seven silver and three bronze).He won a gold and silver medal at the 2018 Commonwealth Games and was the Australian flag bearer at the closing ceremony. 
Fearnley is active in advocacy work, and has been an ambassador for the Don't DIS my ABILITY[21] campaign for four years. He was also a 2010 International Day of People with Disability Ambassador.

Born in Cowra, New South Wales, Australia
He has wrote a book called Pushing the Limits: Life, Marathons & Kokoda
https://www.booktopia.com.au/pushing-the-limits-kurt-fearnley/book/9780143799924.html?source=pla&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIyJb4hrCf-AIVDiUrCh2QtAMoEAYYASABEgKew_D_BwE
]]> 2022-06-09 03:01:28 UTC https://padlet.com/sharyn_tonkin/lrd9ngvovatj8ecj/wish/2215730317 Ra https://padlet.com/sharyn_tonkin/lrd9ngvovatj8ecj/wish/2215733721 https://images.app.goo.gl/JepyjwJ6VuiYR4G4AAlbert Einstein 

Theoretical Physicist

Born in Germany 1879

While it is unconfirmed, psychiatrists like Simon Baron-Cohen, head of the Autism Research Centre at the University of Cambridge, think it is fairly likely that Einstein was autistic.

Best known for developing the theory of relativity. E=MC2  (aka the theory of gravity)

The basic idea is that instead of being an invisible force that attracts objects to one another, gravity is a curving or warping of space. The more massive an object, the more it warps the space around it.

Won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1921, and he is considered to be one of the most important scientists of the 20th century.
Einstein died of an aortic aneurysm on April 18, 1955. A blood vessel burst near his heart, according to the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH). When asked if he wanted to have surgery, Einstein refused. "I want to go when I want to go," he said. "It is tasteless to prolong life artificially. I have done my share; it is time to go. I will do it elegantly."

https://www.autismresearchcentre.com/

Some of the books he has written:
  1. relativity: the special and general theory(by Albert Einstein)
  2. The principle of relativity (original papers) by Albert Einstein and H Minkowski
  3. On the electrodynamics of moving Celestial bodies (by Albert Einstein)





]]> 2022-06-09 03:04:53 UTC https://padlet.com/sharyn_tonkin/lrd9ngvovatj8ecj/wish/2215733721 Tania https://padlet.com/sharyn_tonkin/lrd9ngvovatj8ecj/wish/2215740646 Kelly Vincent is an australian playwright, actress and former politician. She was elected in the 2010 state election for the dignity party for an 8 year term in the parliament in South Australia. Kelly has cerebral palsy and at 21 was the youngest woman elected to any australian parliament, aswell as the youngest member of the parliament of South Australia. She was part of the social development committee, access to and interaction with the justice system for people with disabilities, disability services funding and access to the education system for students with disabilities. In 2017 Kelly also won the Zonta women of achievement award for outstanding achievement in human rights.]]> 2022-06-09 03:11:54 UTC https://padlet.com/sharyn_tonkin/lrd9ngvovatj8ecj/wish/2215740646