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We welcome Jane Hancock onboard as CPSN's new General Manager for Quality and Practice. Jane brings a wealth of experience and knowledge, along with a genuine enthusiasm for improving the lives of people with disabilities.

There is a lot of information out there at the moment about how people with disabilities can access COVID testing, vaccination and medical services - and it can be very confusing. CPSN's Natalie Corrigan explores what services are available for Victorians with disabilities.

Every five years, I’d go to my doctor’s office for a prescription or a check-up, and she’d say, “I don’t want to pressure you, but it’s overdue. Do you want to get it over with?” For people without disabilities, a cervical screening conjures up two minutes worth of discomfort and awkwardness. But for women with disabilities, this straightforward procedure quickly becomes unnecessarily complicated.

We welcome Josh Daniel to CPSN as our new Customer Service and Administration Officer. The 24-year-old is now the third member of our Membership Services team. Josh joins Nick and Natalie, who all bring their added individual insight and lived experiences of cerebral palsy to their customer facing roles.

Many people with cerebral palsy experience substantial difficulties in negotiating major challenges of adulthood, such as completing higher education, gaining employment, living independently from their parents, and attracting intimate partners.

National Carers Week (10-16 October) recognises the diversity of caring and the diversity of reasons to care for someone. CPSN's telehealth nurse Amy, shares her many reasons to care, as carer to her twin sons who have cerebral palsy.

Like many other people living with cerebral palsy (CP), CPSN member Jerusha Mather has a speech disorder. A speech disorder is a condition in which a person has problems creating or forming the speech sounds needed to communicate with others.