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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 ...
Go Foundation [17] Established in 2009 by AFL players Adam Goodes and Michael O'Loughlin it aims to "provide Indigenous children with scholarships to quality schools, and to meet expenses for students attending these schools'. Arthur Beetson Foundation [18]
Following a spinal cord injury, Palipana found adapted ways to be trained as a quadriplegic doctor in partnership with Griffith University and the Gold Coast University Hospital. [16] This was a previously unaccomplished feat in Queensland. He has consequently openly advocated for training medical students with disabilities in Australia. [17]
SYDNEY – Michelle Li and Mikayla Hogg have been named the winners of the Australian Fashion Foundation’s annual scholarship awards for 2022. In partnership with the American Australian ...
Janet Tyler OAM is an Australian Registered Nurse who was a member of the medical team selected to care for Australian athletes at the 1968 Summer Paralympics, Israel. She specialised in spinal nursing and rehabilitation at the Royal Adelaide Hospital and the Hampstead Rehabilitation Centre annex of Royal Adelaide Hospital, throughout the forty ...
For service to people with spinal disabilities, particularly as a home visiting nurse with the Paraplegic-Quadriplegic Association of Western Australia, and through support for wheelchair sports. Sydney Benjamin: For service to the community, particularly through public speaking programs, Jewish communal organisations and Freemasonry. Helen Bersten