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A Co-design means working together with the people who will use services, information or resources to: For example, people with intellectual disability and health professionals could co-design a health resource. They could share ideas, experiences and feedback to make sure the resource is: LGBTQIA+ means people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer or questioning and asexual. The plus (+) means that it could include more people too. LGBTQIA+ is a short way to talk about people with different genders, bodies and relationships. team of people with intellectual disability wrote a letter to doctors and health workers.
The letter explains how doctors and health professionals can be more Inclusive means making sure everyone can take part and feel welcome. It is about including people with different: . Inclusive means that everyone feels welcome and things are fair.
In the letter, the team asks doctors to:
- treat them with respect
- talk in ways they can understand
- support their and sexuality
Gender is how a person feels about being a boy, a girl, both, or neither. It can be different from the sex they were given at birth.
- offer health care
If something is accessible, it means that everyone can use and understand something. For example:
- accessible buildings have ramps so that people with wheelchairs can come inside
- accessible health information uses easy words that most people understand
- accessible health services make changes so that people who feel worried about seeing the doctor feel calm and in control.
Accessibility makes things fair for people with a disability.
- ask questions and listen
- respect their right to make choices
- use the right name and pronoun.
The letter is part of a project called Information for Inclusion. The project is run by Deakin University, Inclusion Designlab, and Thorne Harbour Health.
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Inclusion Design Lab
Victoria’s longest serving community-based support organisation supporting people with cognitive and intellectual disabilities and those who are socially isolated, to build genuine relationships, discover and develop recreational and vocational skills, exercise full citizenship, and pursue meaningful opportunities for employment and further education.
Deakin University
A University in Victoria, Australia
Thorne Harbour Health
An LGBTIQ+ community-controlled health organisation in South Australia.
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