Australian Disability Clearinghouse on Education and Training

SATAC

SATAC University Admissions Service
Street address

Ground floor, 104 Frome Street
Adelaide SA 5000
Postal address
PO Box 2 Rundle Mall
Adelaide SA 5000
Tel (08) 8224 4000
Fax (08) 8224 4099

SATAC TAFESA Admissions Service
Street address
Ground floor, 104 Frome Street
Adelaide SA 5000
Postal address
PO Box 235 Rundle Mall
Adelaide SA 5000
Tel (08) 8224 4000
Fax (08) 8224 4099

TAFESA

TAFESA Information Centre
Street address
Shop 4 Da Costa Arcade

68 Grenfell Street
Adelaide SA 5000
Postal address
PO Box 819
Adelaide SA 5001
Freecall 1800 882 661
TTY (08) 8463 6359
Email tafeinfo@saugov.sa.gov.au

TAFEBIZSA
Tel (08) 8463 6303

TAFE Statewide Disability Support Program
C/- Douglas Mawson Institute of Technology
Port Adelaide Campus
1 Mundy Street
Port Adelaide SA 5015
Tel (08) 8303 2700
TTY (08)  8226 1903

Student Services
http://www.tafe.sa.edu.au/Students/tabid/568/Default.aspx

Please contact the TAFE Information Centre on Freecall 1800 882 661 or go to the above website to find contact details for your local TAFESA campus. Ring the general number and ask to speak with a Student Services Officer. Some examples of metropolitan and regional campuses are:

Metropolitan:

Adelaide Campus
Tel (08) 8207 8200
TTY (08) 8207 8206

Port Adelaide Campus
Tel 1300 130 753
TTY (08) 8204 0893

Regional:

Pt Augusta Campus
Tel. (08) 648 9922

Whyalla Campus
Tel (08) 8648 8788

Mt Gambier Campus
Tel (08) 8735 1555
 

Universities

Flinders University
Postal address
GPO Box 2100

Adelaide SA 5001

Flinders University Foundation Course

Access and Equity Unit
Tel (08) 8201 3789

Admissions Office

Tel     (08) 8201 3074
          1 300 657 671

Careers and Employer Liaison Centre

Tel (08) 8201 2832

Disability Liaison Officer

Health and Counselling Service
Tel (08) 8201 2943
Fax (08) 8201 3154
TTY (08)  8201 3242

Yunggorendi Mande

Tel (08) 8201 3033

Aboriginal Tutorial Assistance Scheme

Tel (08) 8201 3033

Equal Opportunity Unit

Tel (08) 8201 3735

The University of Adelaide

Postal address
North Terrace

Adelaide SA 5005
Mathematics Learning Centre
Tel (08) 8303 5862
Professional and Continuing Education
Level 2, 10 Pulteney Street
Adelaide SA 5000
Tel (08) 8303 4777
Careers and Course Advice Centre
Tel (08)  8303 5123
Fax (08)  8303 3338
Disability Liaison Officer
Equal Opportunity Office
Tel (08)  8303 5962
Fax (08)  8303 3338
Wilto Yerlo
Tel (08)  8303 5705 (North Terrace)
Tel (08)  8303 3624 (Roseworthy)
Centre for Aboriginal Studies in Music
Tel (08)  8303 5705
Aboriginal Tutorial Assistance Scheme
Tel (08) 8303 3525

University of South Australia

Postal address
GPO Box 2471

Adelaide SA 5001
Course Information Centre
Tel (08)  8302 2376
Senior Disability Advisor
Learning Connection, Magill Campus
Tel (08)  8302 4736
Fax (08)  8302 4390
TTY (08)  8302 4842
Indigenous Support Unit
Tel (08)  8302 6703
Aboriginal Tutorial Assistance Scheme
Tel (08) 8302 6704
Open Universities Australia
Flexible Learning Centre
Tel (08) 8302 6240
website: http://www.open.edu.au
Open Universities Australia Student Advisers
email: advisers@uopen.edu.au
Student Ombud
Tel (08) 8302 0175
Fax (08)  8302 0719

 
Other education

Workers’ Educational Association (WEA)
Integration and Access Project

223 Angas Street
Adelaide SA 5000
Tel (08) 8223 1272 (administration)
Tel (08) 8223 1979 (course enrolments and enquiries)
Fax (08) 8232 3690
TTY (08) 8223 1272

 

Government agencies

Centrelink

See listing in the Telstra White Pages for
regional office locations
Tel 13 1021
TTY 1800 810 586 (freecall)
Multi-lingual (other languages) 13 1202

CRS Australia
(formally Commonwealth Rehabilitation Service)
SA State Office
Level 3, 55 Currie Street
Adelaide SA 5000
Tel (08) 8237 6130

Department of Education and Children's Services (DECS)
31 Flinders Street
Adelaide SA 5000
Tel (08) 8226 1527
Freecall 1800 088 158

Department of Further Education Employment, Science and Technology (DFEEST)
31 Flinders Street
Adelaide SA 5000
Tel (08) 8226 3821
Fax (08) 8226 9533

 

Financial matters 

Australian Taxation Office

Tel 13 2861 (toll free)
TTY (08) 8208 1096

Centrelink (ABSTUDY and Austudy)
Postal address
GPO Box 1799
Adelaide SA 5001
Tel 13 2317 (ABSTUDY)
Tel 13 2490 (Austudy)
TTY 1800 810 586

Disability support — general

Disability Information and Resource Centre Inc (DIRC)

195 Gilles Street
Adelaide SA 5000
Tel (08) 8223 7522
TTY (08) 8223 7579
Email dirc@dircsa.org.au  
URL: http://www.dircsa.org.au  
or contact your local library for the Disability Information Directory published by DIRC

Independent Living Centre of SA Inc
11 Blacks Road
Gilles Plains SA 5086
Tel (08) 8266 5260
Fax (08) 8266 5263
Freecall 1800 800 523
Email ilcsa@ilc.asn.au  

Disability support — specific

Better Hearing Australia (SA Branch Inc)

4th Floor, Da Costa Building
68 Grenfell Street
Adelaide SA 5000
Tel (08) 8232 2996
Fax (08) 8223 1692
TTY (08) 8232 2996

Blind Welfare Association of SA Inc
1 Burman Avenue
Gilles Plains SA 5088
Postal address
PO Box 163
Greenacres SA 5086
Tel (08) 8261 0000
Fax (08) 8266 2139

Mental Health Resource Centre
1 Richmond Road
Keswick SA 5035
Postal address
PO Box 310
Marleston SA 5033
Tel (08) 8221 5166
Fax (08) 8221 5159

Paraplegic and Quadriplegic Association of SA Inc
Suite 4, 62 Glen Osmond Road
Parkside SA 5063
Postal address
PO Box 270
Torrensville Plaza SA 5031
Tel (08) 8373 2258
Fax (08) 8373 2090

Royal Society for the Blind of SA Inc
230 Pirie Street
Adelaide SA 5000
Postal address
GPO Box 1855
Adelaide SA 5001
Tel (08) 8232 2444
Fax (08) 8232 2111

Royal South Australian Deaf Society Inc
262 South Terrace
Adelaide SA 5000
Postal address
PO Box 7095, Hutt Street
Adelaide SA 5001
Tel (08) 8223 3335
Fax (08) 8232 2217
TTY (08) 8223 6530
Email  info@deafcando.com.au
URL http://www.deafcando.com.au/

Specific Learning Difficulties Association of SA Inc — SPELD (SA Inc)
298 Portrush Road
Kensington SA 5068
Postal address
PO Box 83
Glenside SA 5065
Tel (08) 8431 1655

Spastic Centres of South Australia Foundation
98 Woodville Road
Woodville SA 5011
Postal address
PO Box 49
Woodville SA 5011
Tel (08) 8268 5000
Fax (08) 8445 6148
Email scosaf@asn.au
URL http://www.scosaf.asn.au

Advocacy agencies

Citizen Advocacy North East (SA) Inc
598 Lower North East Road

Campbelltown SA 5074
Tel (08) 8337 8355
Fax (08) 8365 2775

Disability Complaints Service
Unit 3, 178 Henley Beach
Torrensville SA 5031
Tel (08) 8234 5699
Fax (08) 8234 6044
Freecall 1800 088 325
TTY (08) 8234 2229

Disability Discrimination Act Service
Norwood Community Legal Service
110 The Parade
Norwood SA 5067
Tel (08) 8362 1199
Fax (08) 8362 0410

Equal Opportunity Commission
Level 2, 45 Pirie Street
Adelaide SA 5000
Tel (08) 8207 1977
Fax (08) 8207 2090
TTY (08) 8207 1911
Freecall 1800 188 163 (SA country) 
URL  http://www.eoc.sa.gov.au/site/home.jsp

Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission
133 Castlereagh Street
Sydney NSW 2000
Tel (02) 9284 9600
TTY 1800 620 241
URL http://www.hreoc.gov.au/

I CARE Human Services
PO Box 70
Salisbury South SA 5108
Telephone (08) 8258 8744

Office of the Public Advocate (OPA)
Level 8, ABC Building
85 North East Road
Collinswood SA 5081
Postal address
PO Box 213
Prospect SA 5082
Tel (08) 8269 7575
Fax (08) 8269 7490
Freecall 1800 066 969 (SA country)
Email opasa@opa.sa.gov.au  
URL http://www.opa.sa.gov.au

Career planning

Centrelink Career Reference Centre

55 Currie Street
Adelaide SA 5000
Tel 13 1021 (for appointments)
Fax (08) 8401 3299

Career Services
http://www.unisanet.unisa.edu.au/careers/  

The Willing and Able Mentoring Program
http://www.graduatecareers.com.au/content/view/full/318

 

Transport

South Australian Transport Subsidy Scheme (Access Cabs)

211 – 219 Gilles Street
Adelaide SA 5000
Postal address
GPO Box 2830
Adelaide SA 5001
Tel (administration) 1300 360 840
Fax (08) 8354 0494
URL http://www.yellowcabgroup.com.au/

Taxi bookings 1300 360 940

Please note that the information here is not intended as a complete list of resource organizations.