Strong Voices

As entries close for the 2023 IHC Art Awards – the 20th year of the national competition – the attention shifts to this year’s judges who will make their call on the winners.

The New Zealand football team has left for the Special Olympics World Games in Berlin where, winners or not, it will make history.

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A man in a supported living service, who wanted to challenge a welfare guardianship application, had his access to funds to pay for it blocked by his welfare guardian.

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IHC is urging the Law Commission to protect the rights of vulnerable adults to make their own decisions.

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New Zealand families are celebrating the release of the first drug to treat the severe neurological condition Rett syndrome and wondering if they will see it here.

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The new Chair of the IHC Member Council, Lynne Renouf, comes with 45 years’ experience as an activist.

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Warren Erickson is a beef and sheep farmer from Gore who hasn’t done a lot of bike riding since he left school. That’s about to change.

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Out of challenges can come great opportunities and that is certainly the case with IHC Media.

IHC Media is an online platform launched in 2022 with content created for and by people with intellectual disabilities.

The families who make up the New Zealand Williams Syndrome Association met for their summer camp in Whanganui in January – and there was a lot to catch up on.

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When Manaakiao was diagnosed with Williams syndrome at the age of four, his parents Jamie-Leigh and Puke Timoti asked what the Māori term for Williams syndrome was.

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