Coach And The Doctor

On this week's episode, we speak to Tara Shekede, the founder and director of Me Plus More, which is an online platform for people with an intellectual disability or a cognitive impairment to work towards their independence or employability.

Up next is Ashlee Morton, our travel contributor, who gives us a run down of what Accessible Accommodation is.

Our final guest for the episode is Ben Walker from Garden of Vegan meal delivery service.

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On this week's episode of CATD, we check back in with Kai and Nathan Ryan about Para Standing Tennis, with special guest Adam Hills. The trio have teamed up to campaign for more classifications to be added to Paralympic Tennis and let us know about the progress of the campaign, and upcoming fundraiser events. 

You can get more information on the the Para Standing Tennis Alliance Facebook via the link below.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1123598937979640/ 

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Our last podcast from the Expo features Elisha Curnow from the Wattle Tree Country Retreat, and Sue Goodhand from Felicity Health Care.

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This week's episode is the second of three live recordings from the Melbourne Disability Expo 2023.

Guest include Shaun Kannemeyer from Mobility Aids,  Jobby Mathew from Positive Media and Eleisha Laurent from Brain Train.

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This is the first of three podcasts recorded at the Melbourne Disability Connection Expo 2023.

First up is River Night, one of the organizers of the event from Developing Australian Communities, who joins us for a chat all about the event.

Then we speak to Corinne Pegram from Perfect Care, which is an organisation that supports NDIS participants and specializes in accommodation.

Plus we finish up with a very special guest Jason, who is an NDIS participant who was on the ground, enjoying the expo.

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On this week's episode, we are talking all things ME/CFS with Alice Rumble in conjunction with ME/CFS international Awareness Day coming up on the 12th May.

Following Alice, guest finance contributor Isabela Hunter from Plan Partners talks us through manual claims.

Lastly, we speak to Scott Nicholas about Paralympics Australia, and get a better idea of what the organisation does between the 4 yearly international event.

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On this weeks episode, we kick it off speaking to Sonny Adorjan, the creator of Woodism, which is the unique art collaboration with his autistic son. 

Following Sonny, we have Kim Henderson, who is the NDIS Transition Coordinator at Maroondah City Council, talking all things NDIS plans and supporting her community through the complex application and review process.

Finally, guest contributor Rita shares her monthly findings from the world of sport.

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Coach and the Doctor is on the road again in Brisbane at the Disability Connection Expo, talking to Expo Director Mike Clark, and some of the fantastic companies that attended.

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On this week's episode we speak to Mel Spencer, co-founder of Different Journeys, who tells us all about raising 3 children with Autism, her own late in life diagnosis' and everything that happens at Different Journeys.

Then we are joined by comedian Oliver Hunter, whose show 'Wheel of Fortune' has just opened at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.

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ON this week's episode we kick off with Sasha Job, leader of the Universal Beach Access Hub (U-BEACH) project, who speaks to us about the importance of accessibility to our beaches and the steps needed to achieve this for our community.

Following Sasha we speak to Kai Ryan and his dad Nathan about his  dream to represent Australia at the Paralympics in Tennis, but the restriction they are facing due to to tennis only offering a wheelchair classification for those living with disability, and not including other classifications to include disabilities such as achondroplasia (dwarfism) that Kai lives with.

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