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Employment - can you give us information about your experiences?
21 July 2010
From Deaf AustraliaDear Members,
On 29th July Deaf Australia is attending a National Employment Forum with other disability peak organisations, government and employers.
The forum will talk about barriers to employment for people with disability and how to remove them.
Deaf Australia already knows quite a lot about the barriers to employment for Deaf and hard of hearing people, but if there is anything you’d like to tell us, we’d love to hear from you.
We also have quite a lot of information about how to solve barriers, but again, if there is anything you’d like to tell us, we’d love to hear from you. We would especially like to hear your stories about how problems have been solved at your work.
We also especially would like to hear from people who have used an employment service in the past 12 months. Employment services have recently changed. Are they better now? In what way? Are they worse? In what way? Are they the same? We really need information about this and would appreciate our members telling us what they can about this.
I hope many members will send me information. We will appreciate it very much, and it will help us to represent your interests better to government and employers.
Please send your information to me at karen.lloyd@deafau.org.au by Monday 26th July 2010.
Many thanks,
Karen Lloyd AM
Executive Officer
Deaf Australia Inc.
Street address: 271A Stafford Rd, Stafford Qld 4053. Postal: PO Box 1083, Stafford Qld 4053
TTY: 07 3357 8277; Fax: 07 3357 8377; Voice ph: 07 3357 8266
Email: karen.lloyd@deafau.org.au Website: www.deafau.org.au