Strong Voices

IDEA Services has now held more than 40 community workshops around the country for families and friends of the people we support, as part of the National Services Review.

COVID-19 vaccinations are being offered to New Zealanders in stages so that people at high risk get the vaccine first, including our frontline workers.

Two long-established organisations that are going out of their way to include young people with intellectual disabilities have attracted partnership funding from the IHC Foundation.

KiwiSaver rules now guarantee that people with four life-shortening congenital conditions can withdraw their savings early.

IHC members can now renew their memberships for a one- or three-year term.

As New Zealand’s major banks phase out the use of cheques, IHC and other disability service providers are asking banks how they will maintain access to banking services by disabled people.

Wellington IT student Evie Randall went public about her struggle to find work. It worked. She had so many replies she had to call her job coach.

A Victoria University of Wellington researcher used a team of observers to evaluate the impact of music therapy on children with autism in her latest research project.

Colin Bailey was in the first New Zealand team to compete in the Special Olympics. He won bronze in the freestyle event at Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in 1983.

Northland families with disabled children are withdrawing from contact with other people because of the sheer stress of trying to manage the children with little support.