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Vision impaired young people call for change in narrative to avoid stereotypes, stigmas
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Alana Tiller is a 20-year-old university student and avid hobby shooter.
She also lives with Oculocutaneous albinism, which often causes progressive vision loss.
She now has "around 3 per cent vision on a good day".
Pay Day with Elly Desmarchelier: 'Paying my disability tax is no mean feat'
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It's Pay Day! The ABC's new column where we ask Australians the money questions we don't like to talk about. We aim to demystify personal finance and normalise conversations about what we earn and how we save it — or spend it.
Elly Desmarchelie
Starkick program and Hand in Hand Walk for Inclusion opens gates for all kids to play football
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Disability advocate welcomes new accessible toilets but says ribbon-cutting ceremony is patronising
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Callum Gossland loves being social but it is not always easy for him.
He lives with a Functional Neurological Disorder (FND) and uses a wheelchair when he leaves the house.
Everyone at my school learnt sign language so I could experience education like other kids
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I vividly remember walking into my classroom on my first day of Year 1 and seeing Mrs Sinclair smiling at me. I smiled at her as she signed "Good morning" to me. I signed back to her.
There was also Miss Smith, who was employed as a teacher aide to interpret for me, despite having learnt how to sign the year before.