Learn about how parents, carers, and neurodivergent adults and teenagers can speak up and be heard to advocate for their choices and lives
🧰 Resource Kit: Includes a Checklist, Links for further reading, a live workshop and recording with auto captions and transcript and other resource materials as appropriate.
🎥 Live Workshop Online: 24 November 2026, 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM ACST (SA Time)
💲 Price: $0.00
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🧑 Speak Up and Be Heard
FREE In-Person Workshop
🌟 This workshop helps parents, carers and neurodivergent teenagers and adults learn how to speak up, make choices, and ask for help.📍 Where and When
🧭 This is an in-person workshop.
📆 It is on Tuesday, 24 November 2026.
🕤 It starts at 1PM.
⌛ It will finish at 3PM.
📍 It is held at Aurora Skydeck.
🏢 The address is 147 Pirie St, Adelaide SA 5000.
💰How Much Does It Cost
💵 It is free with grant funding.
🧒 Who Is It For 2️⃣ There are 2 workshops at the same time.
👦 One is for neurodivergent teenagers and adults. 👨👩👧 The other is for parents and carers at the same time. 🚪 Separate Spaces
🚪 These 2 workshops will be in separate rooms.
🗣️ Disabled people will have their own space to speak freely.
🤝 Parents and carers will have their own space too.
🧡 Everyone can speak openly and not worry about upsetting someone they love.
🌱 Both groups can learn, share and ask honest questions.
💬 What Is It About
🗣️ Learning how to speak up for yourself.
💬 Learning how to ask for what you need.
🤝 Parents and carers learn how to help without taking over.
🗣️ Learning how to speak up for yourself.
💬 Learning how to ask for what you need.
🤝 Parents and carers learn how to help without taking over.
💡 Why It Matters
💪 Speaking up helps you have more say in your life.
🧡 Good support helps people make their own choices.
💪 Speaking up helps you have more say in your life.
🧡 Good support helps people make their own choices.
❓ What Will You Do
🧠 Learn what self-advocacy means.
💬 Practise asking for things clearly.
📝 Find different ways to share your needs.
🚦 What good and poor support can look like.
❌ Learn what to do when someone says no.
🧠 Learn what self-advocacy means.
💬 Practise asking for things clearly.
📝 Find different ways to share your needs.
🚦 What good and poor support can look like.
❌ Learn what to do when someone says no.
🎥 What Happens In The Workshop
👋 Meet the presenters and other people.
💬 Talk and learn about speaking up and making choices.
🗣️ Practise useful words for everyday situations.
📽️ Try activities based on real life.
🪪 Make your own communication card.
🤝 Share ideas with other people. 📝 Take home helpful resources.
💬 Talk and learn about speaking up and making choices.
🗣️ Practise useful words for everyday situations.
📽️ Try activities based on real life.
🪪 Make your own communication card.
🤝 Share ideas with other people. 📝 Take home helpful resources.
👨👩👧👦 What Will Help You Join
💛 We want this workshop to work well for you.
💬 What would make joining better for you?
🍃 You can tell us as much or as little as you like.
🤝 We will work with you to make it happen.
💛 We want this workshop to work well for you.
💬 What would make joining better for you?
🍃 You can tell us as much or as little as you like.
🤝 We will work with you to make it happen.
♿ Accessibility
🔊 Please let us know if you need help with access.
📄 Easy-to-read handouts will be shared with all parents.
🔊 Please let us know if you need help with access.
📄 Easy-to-read handouts will be shared with all parents.
📚 Want Even More Resources?
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❓ Questions?
🌏 Acknowledgement of Country
🖼️ The Growing Space respects the Traditional Custodians of Country in Australia.
🌊 We honour their connection to land, sea, and community.
🌟 We pay respect to Elders past, present, and emerging.
🌊 We honour their connection to land, sea, and community.
🌟 We pay respect to Elders past, present, and emerging.
🤝 Acknowledgement of our Community
💪 The Growing Space thanks disability advocates who came before us.
🌈 We support inclusion and belonging for everyone in the community.
👫 We celebrate people of all abilities, genders, sexual orientations, and races.
🎉 We value diversity and what each person brings to our lives.
🌈 We support inclusion and belonging for everyone in the community.
👫 We celebrate people of all abilities, genders, sexual orientations, and races.
🎉 We value diversity and what each person brings to our lives.
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