Community involvement

• All Abilities Playground Project
• Building Supportive Communities Grants
  • 2008 Grant recipients
  • About the Building Supportive Communities Grants
  • Events and activities
  • Contact us
• Carer recognition
• Communicating with people with a disability
  • A way with words
  • Better Communication postcards
  • Preparing information
  • Publications and resources
• Consumer satisfaction survey results
• Disability Action Week
• Disability councils
• See beyond the disability
• Shared Visions
• Share your Story
• Storybook

Better Communication postcards

The Better Communication postcard series provides practical tips to help people feel more comfortable and confident about interacting with people with a disability.

The series of six postcards feature people of different age, sex and a range of different disabilities and use humour to highlight common misunderstandings and potential barriers to communicating with people with a disability.

The postcards are part of a series of publications available from DSQ to encourage people to make Queensland a more supportive place for people with a disability.

If you would like copies of the Better Communication postcards, contact your local DSQ office.

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  Relax. People with a disability are just people (PDF 256 KB)
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  Don't make assumptions about people with a disability (PDF 291 KB)
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  Just because a person has one disability, doesn't mean they have another (PDF 214 KB)
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  People with a disability have their own way of doing things. Ask before you help (PDF 298 KB)
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  Speak directly to the person with the disability - not to their carer or interpreter (PDF 237 KB)
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  Take the time to listen you may learn a lot. If you can't understand what someone is saying - just ask again (PDF 286 KB)

Preparing information

• Preparing information for people with a disability: Discussion paper