On Tuesday we celebrated with Sir Robert Martin KNZM after he received his award as a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit. Sir Robert is the first person with a learning disability to receive this honour.
The NZSL Board for the first time hired two interns, both members of the Deaf community. Their purpose was clear – to see what support Deaf youth really needed to help guide the Board with NZSL funding decisions.
Round 5 of the contestable process for community-driven initiatives was open from December 2018 to February 2019. The theme for Round 5 was ‘Creative Connections’.
Although the newly released wellbeing data shows that disparities continue to exist between disabled and non-disabled people, apart from loneliness and self-rated general health status, there have been improvements across all other domains of wellbeing compared to the previous wellbeing survey.
As the disabled community may be especially vulnerable or have specific needs when it comes to mask-wearing to protect yourself and others from COVID-19, we thought it would be useful to highlight information from the COVID-19 website around masks.
This report provides a brief overview of the key findings from our fourth online survey on 'How life is going for the disability community', at level 1 of COVID-19 alert.
We’re running our survey – “How life is going for the disability community” again now that we have had some time to settle into Level 1 and would like you to take part.
