Digital First Aid

Park View Project engages with its community in ways that enable and empower individuals who have many challenges in remaining safe and security online.  Most of all, our volunteer befrienders are there to guide and support you to get the most out out of your digital experience.  No matter your disability or vulnerability Park View is there to help you stay safe while maximising your digital footprint.

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Self Care; Staying Productive — Terminally Tough

Importance of taking care of yourself when living with a disability. 

When health conditions isolate you, it is important to keep yourself busy. I struggle with physically keeping busy due to my lack of mobility, so it is vital that I keep my brain as active as possible. One thing I have learnt is to keep working on yourself, as some people haven’t always been afflicted […]

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Talking about my disability is a sensitive subject — BEYOND MY LIMITATIONS

Talking about disability! 

You would think that as a person who has spent eight months blogging about my disability that it’s a topic that comes naturally to me, something that I want to shout about from the mountain top, but to be completely transparent I don’t like talking about my disability. You may think that I am completely […]

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“The BeZine” February Blog Series on Illness and Disability begins today; Why “Disabled” not “Differently Abled” — Jamie Dedes’ THE POET BY DAY Webzine

Why terminology matters!

Courtesy of Tiago Moisés under CC0 Public Domain license via PublicDomainPictures.net “My disability exists not because I use a wheelchair, but because the broader environment isn’t accessible.” Stella Young, was an Australian comedian, journalist and disability rights activist. She was born with osteogenesis imperfecta and used a wheelchair for most of her life. When she was […]

via “The BeZine” February Blog Series on Illness and Disability begins today; Why “Disabled” not “Differently Abled” — Jamie Dedes’ THE POET BY DAY Webzine