SACLC Goes Offline
We’ve made the big decision to hold our monthly meetings in person in various locations across Greater Sydney, as opposed to online, from now on. The last time we did this was in 2019. — One […]
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Educating a World of Lions about Neurodiversity
In Lions, there are literally hundreds of conventions held every year all over the world. You have your District conventions, typically attended by several hundred Lions from your local district of clubs. Then you have Multiple […]
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SACLC Supports Autistic-Friendly Dance and Drama School
In an industrial estate east of the Liverpool central business district in Western Sydney, lies a centre of ability and acceptance, of creativity and caring, of family and friendship. It is in this unassuming location you […]
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SACLC and Return and Earn
For those of you not following us on Facebook, you might be surprised to learn that SACLC was a Local Donation Partner in 2022 and 2023 with Return and Earn, the NSW bottle and can recycling, […]
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1000 Auties: SACLC Celebrates the Sydney Autistic Community
In 2014, an Autistic-led and Autistic-run social group for the adult Autistic community in Sydney was established. The online platform Meetup was chosen to co-ordinate offline encounters and social activities for this sizable yet disperse community; […]
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SACLC Staged An Autistic Writing Competition
Following on from the success of last year’s Hackathon, we decided to stage a writing competition, whose theme was the Autistic experience. For our first ever edition of the Autistic Writing Competition, we decided to solicit […]
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Brazilian Blue Angels and Australian Heroes of the Ocean
At this month’s meeting, we were privileged to have not one, but TWO very special guests! Our first guest was Matheus, a proud member of the Lions Clube Bauru Autismo, an Autism Lions Club that is […]
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Talk: Neurodivergent Employment Opportunities – Grace Nixon
This month at our meeting, we were honoured to have Grace Nixon, a Job Coach at auticon, an international information technology consultancy with an Australian presence, whose core team of professional technical consultants are all on […]
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Educating Lions on Autism
On the 2nd of April, the Lions District of Sydney conducted a Family Health and Wellbeing Forum at the Blacktown Workers Club, and – being the Autism Lions Club – we were invited to give a […]
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Being on the Other Side of Stereotypes
Living on the flip side of a stereotype is an experience that is difficult to describe. While there are stereotypes about everything – white people can’t dance, lawyers lack a moral compass, dog lovers are more […]
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