This week on LEISURE LINK with Peter Greco: 

• Jenna Jones, two-time Australian Paralympian, wrapped up the national swimming titles held in Adelaide.  

• Koen Jansens, from the Manley Wheel-Eagles, previewed the start of the men's National Wheelchair basketball league season.  

• Nathan Pepper, from the SANFL, gave us an midseason update on the APM Employment League, the SANFL wheelchair League sponsored by Novita.  

• Chris Edwards, General Manager for Vision Australia, shared Chris's experience with “Touch and Track” from Telstra - a way for people who are blind to follow an AFL match at Marvel Stadium.  

• Allison Davies, music therapist, spoke about six-year-old Parsa, living with autism, who was lost and was found by searchers playing a nursery rhyme.  

• Dr Cherry Baylosis, Director for Policy and Advocacy at Disability Advocacy Network Australia, had news on a new report with shocking evidence of exclusion and discrimination of Australians with disability in areas such as accommodation and transport along with an increase of applications for guardianship orders for people with disability.  

• Reeva Brice conducted her regular yoga segment.  

• Denise Wood, Adjunct Professor from USC, talked about some of the highlights of the recent Apple World-Wide Developers Conference, 

Resources: 

Wheelchair Basketball Australia: https://wba.net.au/ 

SANFL Disability Football: https://sanfl.com.au/inside-sanfl/programs/disability/  

Telstra Touch and Track: https://www.telstra.com.au/exchange/telstra-touch-and-track--australian-first-for-blind-and-low-visi  

Alison Davies: http://www.allisondavies.com.au 

Disability Network of Australia: http://www.dana.org.au 

Reeva Brice: 0412 866 096 

 

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