News — Living With a Disability
How a white cane named Sneezy is helping Louie overcome the obstacles that face blind and low-vision Australians
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Louie Bartold was only six months old when he was given his first white cane.
"Back then, it was more of a toy than a tool, but the guidance we were given was that it was about making him familiar with it," his mother Scarlett Koehne said.
New 3D-printed aids mimic the feel of real seahorses for Seahorse World visitors with low vision
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It takes Peter Rodger seven hours to print a seahorse.
"That's if you're talking about the full-grown, 30-centimetre adult one … it's only about an hour for a small one," he said.
Photography exhibition empowers people with a disability through alter-ego portraits
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In Warrnambool, in south-west Victoria, there is a vanguard disability movement growing, charged by a grassroots group called the Find Your Voice Collective.
Most recently, they've produced a striking set of photographic portraits that topple preconceived notions of disability.
Little body, huge life: How Suchita Smith has learnt to dance her way through disability
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Standing at 137cm high (about four-foot-five), Suchita Smith describes herself as "a little person with a huge life". And part of that hugeness has meant dance.
In dancing, she says, she finds "a profound joy of being in my body, it's helped me love and tune into it, feel its beauty and become embodied".
Comedy helped Riley recover after surgery on brain tumours. Now his dream is to be a clown doctor
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