For our meeting this month, we were honoured to have as our guest, Vishal Sonule of Connektivity, a consultancy for the National Disability Insurance Scheme, or NDIS, that supports individuals and providers with their NDIS registration, as well as NDIS compliance needs! Vishal guided us through the process of applying for, and meeting, NDIS access […]
This month, we decided to embark upon our most ambitious undertaking to date: running – to our knowledge – the world’s first hackathon to be run by a Lions Club![1] Being an autistic-themed Lions Club, it was only fitting that our hackathon had an autistic theme. Equally fitting was the name we gave our little […]
Our honoured guest at our meeting this month was Charif Kaiss, Founder and President of the not-for-profit organisation Crush Kancer with a Smile, who gave a moving and inspiring talk on conquering your fears and overcoming adversity… all the way from Lebanon! Whilst this is certainly a diversion from our usual autistic-themed programme of talks […]
SACLC have been collaborating with our siblings at the Melbourne Autism Lions Club on an exciting new project we have dubbed the Lions Autism Media Project, or LAMP for short. Our goal for LAMP is to create a place for members of the ever-growing Lions Autism Community to work on and share skills on media […]
We had a clinical psychologist come to our Club meeting this month — Dr. Bettina Christl, of Heart and Mind Psychology! Bettina’s talk was of particular interest to our audience, since she has autistic patients amongst her many clients that come to her practice. Bettina’s talk was very well received by everyone who came. Many […]
SACLC hosted a well-attended, informative and engaging presentation by Mike Tozer, CEO of Xceptional on the subject of autistic employment. It is an unfortunate fact that the unemployment rate for adult autistic people is significantly higher than that of the general population. Organisations such as Xceptional are leading the charge in redressing the imbalance, harnessing […]