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A regional information team also provides individual support and advice for people with spinal cord injury in coastal and inland NSW. SCIA advocates for independent living services that would support people with high level care needs in their own homes, such as public housing, personal care, housekeeping, equipment supply and income support ...
Dinesh Palipana (born 1984) – Australian doctor, the first quadriplegic intern in Queensland, the second quadriplegic medical graduate in Australia. A spinal cord injury was caused as a result of a car accident. [28] Teddy Pendergrass (1950–2010) – soul singer, paralyzed in an auto accident in 1982. [29]
Wheelchair Sports NSW is the peak New South Wales sports organisation that assists people with disabilities ranging from spinal cord injury, spina bifida, amputation, paraplegia, quadriplegia to other similar disabling conditions. The organisation was established as the Paraplegic Sports Club, a section of the Paraplegic Association of NSW ...
Appointed to the council of management of the Paraplegic and quadriplegic Association of New South Wales, Betts was Director of the Sports Sub Committee 1972 to 1973, attending most meetings from 1972 to 1984. [8] On 8 June 1983, Betts and Dr John Grant were nominated to sit on the panel for classifying athletes. In 1991, classification and ...
Prior to the creation of the DRaSSA, it was a subcommittee of the Paraplegic and Quadriplegic Association of South Australia. The organization was first called the Paraplegic and Quadriplegic Sports Association of South Australia. In 1987, Australian sport organizations around the country were trying to standardize their names.
American Spinal Injury Association (ASIA) Asian Spinal Cord Network (ASCoN) Association Francophone Internationale des Groupes d'Animation de la Paraplégie (AFIGAP) Australian and New Zealand Spinal Cord Society (ANZSCoS) Chinese Association of Rehabilitation of Disabled Persons – Society of Spinal Cord Injury (CARDP – SoSCI)
The Sporting Wheelies and Disabled Association was the peak body for sport, recreation and fitness for people with a physical disability or vision impairment in the Australian state of Queensland. In January 2024, all the staff, assets and liabilities of the association were to be transitioned to Spinal Life Australia, with the words 'Sporting ...
Nazim Erdem was born on 1 August 1970 [1] in the Turkish city of Kayseri and later immigrated to Australia with his family. [2] He became a quadriplegic at the age of 20 after diving off a pier into shallow water [1] in an effort to impress some watching girls. [3]