Future Footprints Conductive Education, South Australia

💙Wishing a wonderful Father’s Day to our amazing dads, grandfathers, nonnos, uncles, father figures..and thinking of those whose fathers are no longer with us 🤍 Have a great day!💙

In the light of the Paris Paralympic Games 2024, let us introduce our FF , competing in speed climbing 🧗🏼‍♂️
🌟 Reach for the stars! 🌟

📗 Book Week awesomeness 💚
📘Bad Dad 💙
📙 Thank you, Tas 🧡

💙 Colin Farrell Foundation - to support families with Angelman Syndrome 💙

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JDiD8Z3lWQk

Colin Farrell Opens Up About His Son With Angelman Syndrome | PEOPLE Colin Farrell opens up for the first time about life with his 20-year-old son, James, who has a rare debilitating disorder called Angelman syndrome and why h...

Please vote for our friends at Findon High! Click on the link and vote for: ‘Adventurous Wheelchairs’! Let’s help them bring that win home 🏆

https://www.focusonability.com.au/FOA/films/3385.html?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR3Gdr_VtuoJrpv6DX-hGKkfYg-03sA_Un_LDxs7mF13sOcVCRx18GIspMY_aem_bVfhp3a9LgOBQAFaWS9QVA

Adventurous Wheelchairs: Focus On Ability: Focus on Ability Film Festival FOCUS ON ABILITY is a short film festival that will encourage the community to become more aware of the ability of people with a disability.

Congratulations, Yvonne!

DEAI Prize for Excellence awarded to Yvonne Kameron sponsored by DEAI

Hi everyone, Shane here. This one hurts to write, but it needs to be done.

We currently have a silly video going viral, which should be cause for celebration. Instead, it’s forcing me to confront the painful fact that literally hundreds of thousands of people hate me and think I’m worthless because of my disability. I’ll explain…

The video is quite simple: there’s a trend going around of people posting funny clips of themselves failing miserably at sports, with an ironic caption that “announces” that they did not qualify for the Olympics this year. This kind of self-deprecating humor is right up our alley, so we joined the trend and posted a quick video of me “diving” into a pool, except my dive is obviously just Hannah gently lowering me into the water. My caption announces that I “sadly did not make the 2024 Olympic diving team.” Mildly silly at best, kind of dumb at worst, but it fits the trend perfectly.

As of right now, the video has almost 20 million views. In our work, that’s a major success. I should be ecstatic. I should be proud. I should be celebrating.

But do you know what makes it tough to feel those things? The comments pouring into the video. Let me share some of the brutally ignorant and aggressively hateful things people felt compelled to say on this lighthearted and fun video I created.

The very top comment says, “It’s always important to wash your vegetables,” referring to me as the vegetable. It has 97,000+ likes. That means almost one hundred thousand real humans on this earth agree with this humiliating insult!

The next one, with 79,000 likes: “I still struggle to see that they are in a relationship.”

10,000 likes: “One day she’s not going to pull him back up.”

And another: “Dating him is like doing charity work.”

“You should just drown him.”

There are thousands more just like these. Thousands.

I’m tired, guys. Tired of spending my entire life trying to get the world to accept me. Tired of dedicating my career to educating people about the true disabled experience, only to be reminded—DAILY, by hundreds of thousands of people—that I’m still widely regarded as a “vegetable” that would be better off dead in their opinions. Tired of being denigrated and dismissed. The sheer volume of these horrific comments is staggering, so please, I beg you, don’t tell me to simply ignore them. These are real, actual people, with families and jobs, with influence and votes, who are out there in the world every day harboring these absolutely disgusting ideas about disabled people. It’s sickening.

It’s moments like these when I just want to throw in the towel. Hannah and I have given the world thousands of hours of authentic and personal content about our lives. We’ve worked passionately and tirelessly to show people that a disabled life is just as valid, worthy, meaningful, and joyous as any other, and yet, hatred fills every comment section we create.

I won’t give up, though. It’s too important to me and the stakes are too high. Until disabled people are embraced by our world as equals, I’ll be here, sharing my disabled life that I so deeply enjoy and cherish, and hoping (maybe against reason) that it’s making a difference.

I do believe people can change their opinions. I believe people can grow.

If you believe that too, and if you believe there’s no place in this world for the kind of hatred we receive, it would mean everything to me if you’d share this post. Let’s fight hate with love. Thank you, from the bottom of my heart, for all the support you give us. You truly keep me going when I’m facing what feels like an overwhelming monster.

Love, Shane

Which sport do you love watching the most at this Games?
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⭐️ Paris 2024 ⭐️
How amazing the first few days have been? in smashing it, doing their best, just the same as our little legends are! Go them them! 💚💛 Aussie Aussie Aussie, Oi Oi Oi 💚💛

Helloooo T3 and welcome back everyone! All sessions have resumed and we can’t wait to see you all again! We have some limited availability for Developmental Education and greater availability for Physiotherapy (on a Tuesday/ Wednesday/ Friday). Please email us with any enquiries 🤩

Let’s swing into the last day of our holiday sessions! Hope you have had fun, worked hard (as always) and also rested a little! Enjoy!! Happy Saturday 🤩

Bye-bye week 1 of July Holiday sessions 🤩
Enjoy your weekend and will see you all back for week 2, on Monday 😃

T2 is done & dusted 🤩 Thank you for all your hard work & dedication again, especially loved seeing all your smiles & improvements!

Enjoy the holidays! Please remember, our holiday sessions start on Monday! Bring it on ⭐️

🥶 Trust me…the heaters are working very hard at FF, all day, every day!
Warm wishes for the night 😊
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🥶 July School Holiday bookings are being finalised this Wednesday! Please make sure to fill out our survey that has been emailed or contact Eszter ASAP to avoid disappointment. Keep warm and we will see you this week for wk10! 🤩

Saturday night out with our Team 💛 Such an incredible performance, such a great team 🩵

🌧️🧣🤧 Keep well & warm 🥶⛈️☔️

Who is ready for our Sat casual ‘boccia club’?! May the best wins. Getting in the spirit of the upcoming Paralympic Games 💚💛

It’s just the best when our ‘good old friends’ return to Adelaide & they pop in for a visit (and for a bit of fun). Thank you, was great to see you all again Kylie Steed 🤩

Let’s goooo Mils! Go get them!!!!
💚💛 We are cheering for you 💚💛

Hellooo, we just wanted to warm your hearts up with an adorable smile 🤍 Be happy, stay warm 🥰

💚💛 Let’s go 💚💛

Stepping practise ✅

👚Have you heard of JAM the label before?
🩳 Australian Owned Adapted (Inclusive) Fashion Brand.
👕 Accessible fashion designed to include those with disability.
🪡 OT run and designed – NDIS covered (low cost) assistive technology.

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Info Session Presentation Check out this Presentation designed by mollyrogers.

❤️ Happy Mother’s Day to you lovely people out there ❤️ Sending our love to Mums, Nanas, Nonas, Grandmas, Aunties and all mum figures in our little people’s lives, who are making life a bit sweeter. Thinking of those who cannot be with their mum’s or child today 🤍 Sending our love today and always ❤️

Today we celebrated, you Lehaylah 💜
& everything wonderful about Cornelia de Lange Syndrome.
Awareness day for CdLS is the second Saturday in May.
From here to around the world,
Happy CdLS awareness day
to each and every beautiful angel we get to share life with 💜

Here is a little about CdLS ~

Cornelia de Lange Syndrome (CdLS) is a genetic disorder present from birth, usually not inherited. It is usually due to an acquired change (mutation) in one of seven important developmental genes at or shortly after conception. The signs of CdLS may be obvious from birth or even prenatally, especially if severely involved, but may not be diagnosed until the child is older when it is milder. It causes such a broad range of potential physical, cognitive and medical challenges that it is now known as the CdLS spectrum disorder. CdLS does not discriminate— it affects both genders equally and it’s seen in all races and ethnic backgrounds. The occurrence of CdLS is estimated to be 1 in 10,000 live births, but because it is so variable, could remain undiagnosed. It typically affects: growth, with smaller body and head size; skeletal system, with smaller hands and feet or missing forearms and fingers; development, with delayed development, intellectual disability or learning disabilities; behavior, with ADHD, anxiety or autistic features; and internal body organs including the GI, cardiac, genitourinary and neurologic body systems. Testing for the gene change will be positive in about 80% of individuals with CdLS, but a clinical evaluation with a geneticist should be diagnostic.






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