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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 ...
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]
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.
Australian athletes at these games included quadriplegic Allan McLucas, the first quadriplegic to compete at International Paralympic Games. [2] Schreiber, a member of the Paraplegic and Quadriplegic Association of Victoria, assisted with the fundraising to build a new hostel for quadriplegics to provide better living conditions and care under ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Kolling Institute is accredited by the National Health and Medical Research Council and is a member of the Association of Australian Medical ... Quadriplegic hand ...