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The National Centre of Excellence in Intellectual Disability Health works to make sure people with intellectual disability get better health care.

19/01/2026

There has been strong interest and a high number of submissions to the Health Matters! art competition.

So we are extending the deadline for entries until 20 January (tomorrow) at midnight!

Enter here: https://cds.org.au/art-competition/

Watch the video below from Alanna at Centre for Disability Studies for more.

14/01/2026

Get your artwork in! The Health Matters! art competition closes for entries at midnight tonight.
Enter here: https://cds.org.au/art-competition/

09/01/2026

The Health Matters! art competition is closing for entries at midnight on 15 January. That's next week!

It is open to non-professional artists who:
- are 18 years or older
- live in Australia
- identify as having an intellectual disability.

The competition is part of the Centre's National Research Priorities project. We are using art to find out what types of health care matter most to people with intellectual disability.

Please share this post with anyone who might like to enter!

Find out more about the art competition here: https://cds.org.au/art-competition/

Read more about our National Research Priorities project here: https://nceidh.org.au/our-work/projects/co-designing-national-health-research-priorities

17/12/2025

It's Week 4 of the Health Matters! art competition and we are getting some great entries!

We are running this art competition so people with intellectual disability can have their say about what matters most in health research.

There are lots of different ways you can have your say through art - like painting, drawing, sculpture, music, dance, writing, digital art, and more.

How to enter
- Think about what health issue matters most to you.
- Create an artwork to show this.
- Enter a photo or video of your artwork on the website here: https://form.jotform.com/253100652042845

03/12/2025

Happy International Day of People with Disability!

Lots of people with intellectual disability work at the Centre. They work in leadership, project, advisory and co-design roles.

Inclusion is not something we talk about. It’s something we practise.

Today we celebrate the skills, experience and leadership that people with intellectual disability bring to the Centre and to other disability and health workplaces.

01/12/2025

The Community Connections Tour stopped at the Sunshine Coast last week.
We met with Parent to Parent and the Loud and Clear self-advocacy group to talk about health care in the region.

The Community connections tour is about building a strong national network of people and families whose lived experience shapes our work and helps to share important information about health care.

Loud and Clear shared great insights, including the need for health information and medicine instructions in Easy Read.

Our Centre Partner and Seed Funding recipient, the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia, is already working on a project to make this happen - we can’t wait to share these resources soon!

25/11/2025

Exciting news! The Our Health Matters! art competition is now open.

This art competition is part of a research project to find out what people with intellectual disability think matters most in health research.

The competition is free. It is open to non-professional artists who:

- are 18 years or older
- live in Australia
- identify as having an intellectual disability

You can find out more about the art competition on Centre consortium member
Centre for Disability Studies' website here: https://cds.org.au/art-competition/

You can read more about the national research priorities project here: https://nceidh.org.au/our-work/projects/co-designing-national-health-research-priorities

Please help to spread the word!

21/11/2025

Some more quotes from Centre staff as part of Inclusion at Work Week.

We asked Raylene Griffiths and Laura Naing from Centre consortium member Council for Intellectual Disability what inclusion at work means to them.

Diversity Council Australia

19/11/2025

It's Inclusion at Work Week.

Inclusion and accessible communication are core values at the Centre.

To celebrate, we asked people at the Centre what inclusion at work means to them.

04/11/2025

We are recruiting people with intellectual disability to ask about their experiences of getting contraceptive healthcare.

For more details, visit: https://nceidh.org.au/our-work/projects/contraceptive-decision-making-people-intellectual-disability

27/10/2025

Our Community Engagement Officer, Julia, was in Jawoyn / Dagoman / Wardaman / Katherine for the third Community Connections Tour workshop.

The tour is about connecting, building a network, and listening to the experiences and ideas of people with intellectual disability from a wide range of backgrounds.

You can read more about the tour in NT here: https://nceidh.org.au/community-connections-tour-nt

A big thank you to Step Out Disability Services and Inclusion Northern Territory for supporting the Community Connections Tour in the Northern Territory.

24/10/2025

Tahli and Anaïs hosted a relaxing card making session yesterday to acknowledge Mental Health Month.

It was lovely to see everyone being creative, chatting, and listening to music!

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