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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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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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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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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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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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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The Autism Lions Movement in Australia continues to spread like wildfire with the addition of the fourth club in the Movement, the Northlakes Central Coast Lions Club! In keeping with the tradition that started in 2019 […]
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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, […]
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The Autism Lions Movement in Australia continues unabated with the addition of the third club in the Movement, the North Queensland ASD Lions Club! As with Melbourne Autism’s charter night, it was only proper that we […]
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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 […]
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