Disco Dave's Discobility

20/10/2023

FIPFA

20/11/2022

We are excited to partner with the ABC again this year to showcase writers, producers, artists and hosts with disability.

From today, new content will be released across all ABC platforms in the lead up to 2022.

Go to www.abc.net.au/idpwd to find out more

Image: Beige tile with an orange, blue and green idpwd figure. Below, text reads 'The ABC recognises & celebrates International Day of People With Disability, Saturday December 3, Find out more, idpwd.com.au'. The ABC logo is pictured.

01/06/2022

Want to be part of Australia's largest Football All Abilities event, namely, the famous NOVA Employment Football4all Gala Day set for Sunday 26th of June at Valentine Sports Park?

Here's your opportunity to volunteer on a day you will never forget.

Click on this link for more details: https://bit.ly/3wXFyp9

31/08/2020

CASTLEHILL: Heres a nice place to take your clients. Disabllity toilet is open. Picnic table are unsheltered. Hugh car park with disabled parking. Paved walking track around part of the oval. Wide bush tracks for those unsteady walkers.

27/03/2020

https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2020/03/ndis-fraudsters-run-rampant/

When the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) began to be rolled out in 2016, we warned that it would attract an army of fraudsters middle-men seeking their slice of the $22 billion honey pot on offer. After all, witnessed similar rorting under the private vocational education and training (V...

15/01/2020

21/12/2019

29/11/2019

Next Tuesday, 03 December is International Day of People with Disability (IDPwD)! IDPwD aims to increase public awareness, understanding and acceptance of people with disability.

Disability Sports Australia fully supports IDPwD and has compiled a selection of sport-oriented programs and events happening to celebrate IDPwD in each state and territory across Australia. Check them out on our website and register today:
https://www.sports.org.au/news-feed/2019/11/29/your-sport-guide-to-international-day-of-people-with-a-disability-3-december-2019

To find out more and for a range of other events being run, visit the IDPwD official website:
https://www.idpwd.com.au/events/calendar/page/3/?ppp=100&state
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20/10/2019

Music Therapy and Children with Cerebral Palsy.
Music therapy is the use of music by listening or playing, in a therapeutic way, to modify the cerebral process capturing the attention of the patient.

Music and pediatric neurology
Concerning children, music combined to movement improves spatial relations and visual discrimination, eye-hand coordination and fine ( Spatial relations refer to how objects are located in space in relation to a reference object). and visual discrimination, eye-hand coordination and fine motor habilities.
Hearing rhythmic stimulation improves walk length, speed, gait symmetry, without increasing the pace. It’s very efficient compared with traditional walk therapies. Ankle and wrist bands with jingles can be a nice way to encourage moving by playing music in the same time.

Patterned Sensory Enhancement (PSE) is a technic making use of every music components such as tempo or mode. It structures motor patterns in space and time, and facilitates motor performances. An exercise is realized faster and with more motivation in the PSE group than in the control one. Gross Motor Function Measure (GMFM) has significantly improve during more than 3 months after PSE session. Nethertheless, PSE didn’t demonstrate significant improvement of daily routines and activities, strength nor gait[9].

Music therapy session significantly reduces heart rate and blood pressure of children with Cerebral Palsy (CP)[14]. Listening to several music tracks focusing on rhythmic and melodic aspects of the pieces stimulates selective and long term attention. Short extracts allow us to maintain better attention. Music therapy programs significantly improve children motivation and social behavior. We can notice a particular improvement of communication, cooperation and other children awareness. To sum up, music therapy causes cerebral modifications in attention and emotional responses areas, with significantly effects on communication and social interactions.

20/10/2019

Hello Friends,
Disco Dave here, and I am letting ya all know I'm available to perform 'Master of Ceremonies' (MC) duties if required.
photo: Henny and me at our last Wedding reception . We MC'd and managed a 9 hour, planned, time managed agenda including a great Disco of course!

16/10/2019

05/09/2019

Say hello to Sammy. My cockatiel and companion bird.

05/09/2019

: purchase rocks, paint them, drop them at a park of your choice. Others will find them, take a photo and post on then re-drop at the same or another park. Join in the fun.

03/09/2019

Minimbah Disability Support Services Limited: A community of learning, friendship, and support.

30/11/2018

I know most of us don't receive praise often for the work we do on a daily basis, but when it happens, it's a wonderful feeling.
"David we are looking forward to your beautiful music therapy today, the clients are excited".. warms my heart.❤

14/09/2018

I'm available to do your party.
I'll even bring the music.

16/04/2018

Silent Discos helping Dementia sufferers.

http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2018-02-25/silent-discos/9480016?pfmredir=sm

Silent discos are being staged in aged-care centres across Australia, and are proving especially popular with dementia sufferers.