Successful Transition Course

The Disability Resource Service at AUT, where I work, had a successful two day transition course with about 30 studenta attending. No photos yet.

Time check

I realised this was not on New Zealand time. It is now Thursday, this is a check that this is the timestap too.

Government release

The NZ government has rejected a parliamentary committee's recommendation that a single agency should be established to oversee the disability sector. The government would a establish ministerial committee on disability issues, chaired by Disability Issues Minister Paula Bennett.

The response by the DPA was fast - and negative, I'll put up a link later.

The Office of Disability Issues has these versions of the committee report
In html

online HTML version:

downloadable Word version (90k):

Kindle 2 launch

Amazon has launched, or re-launched, the Kindle 2 a very small display of digital books, this time with a text to speech reader

Welcome

This is started by myself to publicise and comment on things of interest with a connection to disability issues, that come my way. I hope my colleagues will also be contributing too, meantime I will start things rolling.