Mindbook, What's Non Verbal?

I have better things to do than emailing the NDIS like have a life without any funding for support.

It even seems like it was a 5 minute news story about a poor person with a disability to make the ABC look like their care, but they are blowing me off because they have something better to talk about Julian Assange who can talk, walk and feed himself.

I am looking for a TV news show with some guts to take the fight against the NDIS for other people who are in the same vote.

Here is my email that took me 2 hours to type up to Scott.

Hi Scott,

I am waiting to hear from the NDIS through you whether or not my new plan will be approved by the 7th of July 2024, or will my current plan just renew automatically.

It is not hard for you to send me to confirm yes or no to let me know what is happening with my life saving support to keep me alive. It seems like you are just slack or you don't care about people with disabilities.

You said that you would need 3 months to gather all of the reports that you need about me.

You have all of the reports that you required to make your decisions about what I required for support and equipment without meeting me face to face. How do you know what I need if you don't know me personally?

I will look forward to hearing from you soon.

Thank you,

Janelle

Day 3 of the silly season!

International Day of People with Disability!

I don't need a special day celebrate to my life or my CP.
I am who I am.
My CP makes me the person I am.
There is no shame in having a crazy body.
I am smart.
I am an artist.
I am an author.
I fund raise for charities.
I am an OAM.
I am funny.
I care about people sometimes, lol.
I don't want a pity party from people.
Living is a brilliant reason to be celebrated every day.
I just want to be treated as an equal citizen.
I just want respect from people.
I just want to have the appropriate funding for my support and equipment to live my life.
There is lots of people with no disability who are worse off because they are fighting illnesses and for their life. Don't forget this.
Yes! Of course I have hard day, but it is what it is.
Don't feel sorry for me. I feel sorry for you.
Happy Days!

$900 for a new computer joystick!
This will be 5th my joystick.
I can't use my computer in any other way.
My computer is my world.
I use my computer for communication.
I use my computer for talking to friends.
I use my computer for my art.
I use my computer for fundraising.
I use my computer for awareness work.
I use my computer for my banking and paying bills.
I use my computer for making all of my appointments.
I use my computer for booking taxis.
I use my computer for shopping.
I use my computer for education.
I use my computer for pleasure.
I use my computer for my mental wellbeing.
My computer keeps me sane.
My computer keeps me connected with people and the world.
My computer gives my freedom.
My computer assists me to live and achieve in life.
I would have no life without my computer.
NDIS won't fund computers.
NDIS will fund iPads.
I can't use an iPad with my crazy body.
People who are like me are disadvantage yet again.
We didn't ask for our disabilities.
People and the government should remember this.

Open up your hearts and minds to accept and understand people who live with a disability, especially people with communication challenges who are isolated from human connections.

Working together to break the walls of misconception to become a more inclusive and diverse society.

We just want to be heard, it is the most important human right and not to be shut off from the world.

We don't want to have robots who just do what they think we need or want every day. We want to be recognised as people with hearts and beautiful minds.

Over the last 10 days I have been working extremely hard with two gorgeous speech therapists on a grant application for my new project called "Can we share a word." A book and a call to action.

I am hoping to receive a grant to assist with putting together a new book of stories from a wide range of people with communication challenges, family members, support workers, teachers and professionals who work with people with communication challenges to raise awareness about us and what we face out in society.

I hope that the project will grow inclusion and acceptance of people with communication challenges in all areas of society.

Thanks so much to Tracey and Felicity for all of your wonderful support and hard yakka.

It was a brilliant day at Tassie Indie Author Book Fair.

Exciting times ahead!

I hope to see some of you at the Tassie Indie Author Book Fair tomorrow from 10 am until 3 pm at the Brooke Street Pier.

I hope to see some familiar faces on the day. Please share with your Facebook friends.

I received an email from the Organising Committee, saying that they are pleased to confirm that my abstract paper called A different way to challenge what is NON-VERBAL has been accepted for a Short Presentation (20 Minutes) at the AGSOCI 2021 Conference to be held on 1 – 4 September 2021 at the Hotel Grand Chancellor, Hobart.

Not bad hey!🙂I pity the poor people who have to listen to me go on, lol.🤪They will have sore ears by the 20 minutes is up.🤪

Please get behind Tasmanian Independent Authors like me at the Tassie Indie Author Book Fair on Saturday, the 8th of May from 10 am until 3 pm at the Brooke Street Pier.

I hope to see some familiar faces on the day. Please share with your Facebook friends.

May is going to be an exciting month with many opportunities to keep on educating people about other peers who are non-verbal.
It is a chance to grow better awareness of how including people who are different abled should look like in today's society.
Never underestimate non-verbal people.

Never stop creating conversations and pushing the boundaries to grow better understanding about being different abled, not DISABLED. Everyone is different abled.

The CEO from The Association for Children with Disabilities (ACD Tas) has approached me and asked if I would like to write an article in ACD Tas Pep Talk Magazine about me and my life experiences. That is pretty cool.

Non-verbal people shouldn't be made to feel like they are not capable of thinking for themselves or communicating what they want to people.

It is the lack of understanding by people who haven't had any thing to do with non-verbal people in their lives. It doesn't make it right.

Being non-verbal doesn't mean that I can't say what is on my mind or can't think for myself. It just take me a bit longer to get the messages out to the world.

It doesn't mean that I am not intellectually capable, so people should not judge me from afar. It is very frustrating, when people who treat me like I am silly or slow. You are the one who are silly and slow, not me.