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In this webinar, Julie Rogan from the Disabilities Service Team at Griffith University will discuss the importance of collaboration between Disabilities Services and staff from career services and other support staff in a secondary or tertiary environment. In these days of poor retention rates across the board and certainly, for students with a disability including mental health) and then the difficulty people with a disability have gaining employment improved career decisions are essential. We will look at case studies and initiatives to support this collaboration. When: Monday 1 July, 2019.

In this webinar Andrew Downie will discuss how to structure MS Word documents. This will save you a great deal of time and effort and will make the material fully accessible. When: Wednesday 26 June, 2019.

The Centre for Disability Studies has a number of workshops available in the next few months.  Including: Person Centred Group Facilitation; Building Inclusive Communities; Six Steps to Universal Learning Design; I-CAN Facilitator Training; and, Supporting and Serving Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People Who Have a Disability. When: June and July.

The  2019 ANZSSA Conference will be held at the University of Otago in Dunedin from Sunday 8 to Wednesday 11 December 2019.  

In the USA, the 2019 AHEAD (Association on Higher Education and Disability) Conference has opened Virtual Conference registrations.  They will broadcast the opening plenary session and two concurrent presentations during each time block live, during the conference, complete with video, audio, and real-time captioning. All virtual registrants will also receive access to the full, captioned recordings of all 20 streamed sessions to use for professional development at your home campuses!  When: 9 - 13 July, 2019.

Vision Australia is offering a number of public workshops throughout Australia, including; Creating Accessible Documents; Advanced Creating Accessible Documents – Microsoft Office; Advanced Creating Accessible Documents – Adobe PDF; Inclusive Design; Accessibility for Web Writers; Writing for the Web; and Web Accessibility Techniques and Testing.

This half day workshop will address the barriers faced by indigenous students and clients with a disability and strategies for effectively serving this cohort of students or clients in a culturally safe way. When: Friday 26 July, 2019

Equity Practitioners in Higher Education in Australasia (EPHEA) and National Association of Enabling Educators in Australia (NAEEA) will host the 2019 EPHEA/NAEEA Biennial Conference themed “Enabling Excellence through Equity” from Sunday 24 to Wednesday 27 November 2019 at the University of Wollongong Innovation Campus.

The 28th National Vocational Education and Training Research Conference 'No Frills' is in Adelaide on 10-12 July 2019.

'No Frills' is an annual national conference where researchers, practitioners, providers, government and industry representatives come together and share knowledge, ideas, insights and solutions surrounding Australia’s VET sector.