Mosaic Support Services

24/12/2025

24/12/2025

It is the season to be jolly and we have been sharing so much joy as we celebrate the festive season. ✨ This week we will be sharing our end of year celebrations!

This time of year, reminds us of the importance of connection and sharing time together celebrating with parties! It's fair to say this year's end of year party was even better than last year's.

We even got a surprise visit from Santa himself! We had an absolute ball and it is safe to say were pretty exhausted after it.

We’re grateful for our incredible community, the people we support, families, employees and supporters who make these celebrations come to life. 💛🎄

18/12/2025

We welcome today’s announcement that from 1 July 2026, all Supported Independent Living providers will be required to register with the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission.

At Able Australia, this reflects how we already work. We’re registered and regularly audited, with a strong focus on safety, choice and control.

So, you or your loved one can feel safe, happy and supported in the place you call home.

[Image Dexscription: Two people sit together at a table, smiling and laughing while preparing food. One person, who uses a powered wheelchair, is chopping ingredients on a tray attached to their chair. The other person sits beside them, offering support and sharing the moment. A graphic in the corner shows star ratings reading: 4.4 Safe, 4.2 Respected, and 4.0 Happy.]

14/11/2025

There’s less than six weeks left until Christmas! The crew at Made by Mosaic are well prepared to help stuff your stockings. They have been busy designing and creating this year’s Festive range.

They have planned, poured and packaged to bring you:

🕯️ Candles: Melting Snowman, Reindeer, and Holly
🧼 Soaps: Reindeer, Gingerbread Man, Christmas Tree and Pudding

All with festive scents such as spiced maple, candy cane and gingerbread.

You can shop the full range online (check the comments!)

If you’re in Hobart, pop into our store at 2a Pierce Street, Moonah on weekdays - or visit Amy this Sunday at the Handmade Plus Market!

📅 Sunday 16th November
🕙 10am – 2pm
📍 Elwick Racecourse
🎟️ Free entry

31/10/2025

👻 Happy Halloween! 🎃

WARNING: Spooo0000kkky content in this post!

Today we’re celebrating all things scary from spiders to ghosts and everything in between. We have loved getting creative and getting to express our love for all things Halloween.

From dressing up, sharing treats, or simply enjoying the Halloween spirit we have had an absolute ball today. Such a great way to end the week!

For those that are trick or treating tonight have fun💜

29/10/2025

We’re excited to announce the Deafblind Communication: Building Professional Competencies project is now complete.

This project was in partnership with Monash University , Able Australia, and the National Accreditation Authority for Translators and Interpreters ().

This important initiative aimed to strengthen the skills and recognition of professionals working in deafblind communication.

✨ Project highlights include:
- Conducted a global survey of professionals to better understand their training experiences and needs (report now published).
- Developed a formal credential in deafblind interpreting, with the first cohort of 25 interpreters now proudly earning this qualification.

Able Australia will include project insights and resources into our CommGuide training, supporting continued excellence in communication support for people who are deafblind.

A huge thank you to everyone involved for helping build a stronger, more inclusive future for the deafblind community.

22/10/2025

✨ Celebrating Diwali ✨

Yesterday, our community came together to experience the vibrant Festival of Lights, Diwali! 🪔 A beautiful celebration of light over darkness and good over evil, filled with joy, colour, and connection.

The team had a number of highlights including:
👘 Trying on traditional Kurta gowns & Dopatta scarves
💃 Dancing to lively Hindi Diwali tunes
🎨 Decorating glowing Diya lamps
🍽️ Tasting Suji Ka Halwa, a sweet semolina treat

This is the kind of light we love to share at Able! 💫

13/10/2025

Communication is connection and that includes checking in on the people who care.

This National Carers Week, we recognise the vital role unpaid carers play in the lives of the people we support – family, partners, and friends who show up every day.

Caring can be rewarding, but it can also be lonely, tiring, and unseen.

Research shows that carers with access to support experience better wellbeing than those who go it alone.

At Able, we support carers by listening, sharing updates, linking to services and helping their person thrive.

This week, take the time to check in with the carers you know.

Need Support?
Carer Gateway
Carers Australia

10/10/2025

For many people, their mental wellbeing begins to unravel when their voice is ignored or never supported in the first place.

For people with communication support needs, the risk of isolation, frustration and distress increases when:

• they can’t express how they feel
• they don’t understand what’s happening
• their communication isn’t recognised or valued

That’s why supporting all forms of communication supports wellbeing. Including speech, signs, symbols, sounds, movement, silence – supports wellbeing.

💬 Everyone deserves to say “I’m not okay” in their own way.

This World Mental Health Day, let’s listen more closely.

Let’s honour every voice, especially the ones not always heard.

09/10/2025

🎨 Meet Alex! Many of you already know Alex. He is a talented artist who brings creativity to life through tactile art! Using materials like feathers, bubble wrap, pom poms, and fabric, Alex creates vibrant, touchable works that speak to the senses, especially for the deafblind community.

“I first got into Creative Arts back in 2010 thanks to an art session with Able Australia. Without their support, I wouldn’t have discovered the deafblind community or my passion for art,” Alex shares.

Now, his work shines proving that art has no barriers. 💫

07/10/2025

At Able we include everyone, and support people to communicate in their own unique way.

Whether it’s spoken words, Auslan, gestures, eye movements, or technology…
Whether it’s loud or quiet, simple or complex…
Whether it’s a blink, a look, or a movement…

You don’t need words to have worth.
You don’t need speech to have a say.

We all deserve connection, dignity, and choice.

This Communication Bill of Rights reminds us that all forms of communication are valid, including those that are non-symbolic or hard to interpret.

Let’s work together to make sure no one is left out of the conversation.

Based on the NJC Communication Bill of Rights (2024)
Designed using ARASAAC pictograms | CC (BY-NC-SA)

26/09/2025

Following on from International Day of Sign languages on Tuesday we put the spotlight on Auslan.

Would you like to learn the Auslan alphabet?

Click the link below to help you learn everything from A to Z in the Auslan alphabet - https://tinyurl.com/3j7vm8z4