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Behind the Data: The Realities for People with Learning Disability in NZ

Zoom , New Zealand

Focus: Improved Data-Improved Lives Audience: Parents, whānau and professionals  In 2023, IHC released a landmark report using New Zealand’s Integrated Data Infrastructure (IDI), a large government database holding information on nine million people. This research exposed stark inequities faced by people with intellectual disability, including much poorer health outcomes, higher rates of chronic illness, and […]

Keeping Children and Adolescents with Down Syndrome Healthy

Zoom , New Zealand

Focus: Improved Health-Improved Lives Audience: All In this presentation, Dr Brian Skotko reviews all of the questions and concerns that parents most often have about their sons and daughters with Down syndrome. He provides the answers and action steps, stemming from the latest clinical research on people with Down syndrome. Based on his clinical experience […]

How to improve education and employment outcomes for Whaikaha

Zoom , New Zealand

Focus: Improved Education/Employment-Improved Lives Audience: Parents, whānau and professionals  This presentation explores how education and employment systems can better support people with Down syndrome. Grant will highlight systemic barriers and share practical strategies to create equitable opportunities that value their strengths and contributions of the people we support. He will also spend time exploring ideas that […]

Books Beyond Barriers and more!

Zoom , New Zealand

Focus: Improved Information-Improved Lives Audience: Parents, whānau and professionals  Krissy is the National Librarian at the CCS Disability Action Library and Information Service. Krissy will talk about her passion in sharing information to empower people. Krissy will share the different accessible forms of information and talk about sharing information through community radio and podcast.  

Home & School: Joyful connections and a strong relationship

Zoom , New Zealand

Focus: Improved Education–Improved Lives Audience: Parents, whānau and professionals  I’m presenting in my capacity as a parent, not in a professional capacity. My daughter Charlotte is in Year 4 at our local primary school.  I’ll be sharing with you about this journey so far and how we work together with our school to ensure that we have […]

From Voices to Power: Making Accessibility a Political Priority

Zoom , New Zealand

Focus: Improved Advocacy-Improved Lives Audience: Parents, whānau and professionals  How do we transform lived experience into political influence? In her talk, Juliana Carvalho will share the story and strategy behind the Access Matters campaign, a grassroots movement working to make accessibility a political priority in Aotearoa New Zealand. Drawing on lessons from collective action, community organising, and […]

The IHC Library – Responding to Change

Zoom , New Zealand

Focus: Improved Information-Improved Lives Audience: Parents, whānau and professionals  A brief look at what the IHC Library is and how it can support parents, caregivers and anyone with an interest in intellectual disability.

Babble Boot Camp

Zoom , New Zealand

Focus: Improved Communications-Improved Lives Audience: Parents, whānau and professionals  This presentation shares a pilot study of Babble Boot Camp, a caregiver-led programme that supports early speech and language development in infants with Down syndrome, offering insights into proactive strategies for lifelong communication

Health equity for people with Down syndrome and intellectual disabilities

Zoom , New Zealand

Focus: Improved Health-Improved Lives Audience: Parents, whānau and professionals  This talk will cover the unfair health outcomes faced by people with Down syndrome and intellectual disabilities, including findings from Down Syndrome International's 'Our Say in Our Health' report. We will also discuss work happening on this topic from the World Health Organization, and actions that […]