Peak body supports

Queensland Executive Disability Peak Body

Queenslanders with Disability Network (QDN) provides an overarching leadership and coordination role across funded peak bodies. QDN also provides information, advice and support to people with disability about their rights, available services and opportunities for economic and social participation.

• Queenslanders with Disability Network
  Phone: 1300 363 783

Disability Peak and Representative Body—Inclusion Program

The providers listed below provide state-wide peak body services to people with disability within the identified disability category. If you need help with disability specific information, support and referral services, you can contact the Queensland Disability Peak and Representative Body service providers listed below.

People with Autism

Autism is a complex lifelong developmental disability that can cause differences in communication, interacting with others and experiences in everyday situations.

• Autism Queensland
  Phone: (07) 3273 0000

People who are Deaf or hard of hearing

Includes people in the Deaf community, the Deaf community’s language and culture, and people with hearing impairment and hearing loss.

• Better Hearing Australia Brisbane
  Phone: (07) 3844 5065
• Deaf Connect
  Phone: 1800 893 855

People with intellectual disability

Conditions associated with intellectual disability, difficulties in learning and performing certain daily life skills and limitations of adaptive skills in the context of community environments compared to others of the same age. Examples include Down Syndrome, Williams Syndrome, Prader Willi Syndrome, Angelman Syndrome, Fragile X, cri-du-chat syndrome.

• Down Syndrome Queensland
  Phone: (07) 3356 6655

People with vision impairment

Visual impairment includes blindness and vision impairment.

• Guide Dogs Queensland
  Phone: (07) 3500 9001

People with physical disability

Conditions that are attributable to a physical cause or impact on the ability to perform physical activities, such as mobility. Examples include paraplegia, quadriplegia, muscular dystrophy, motor neurone disease, neuromuscular disorders, cerebral palsy, absence or deformities of limbs, spina bifida, arthritis, back disorders, ataxia, bone formation or degeneration, scoliosis.

• Spinal Life Australia
  Phone: 1300 774 625

People with neurological/acquired brain injury

Neurological disability applies to impairment of the nervous system occurring after birth, including epilepsy and organic dementias (for example, Alzheimer’s disease) as well as such conditions as multiple sclerosis and Parkinson’s disease. Acquired brain injury is used to describe multiple disabilities arising from damage to the brain acquired after birth. Results in deterioration in cognitive, physical, emotional or independent functioning. May be as a result of accidents, stroke, brain tumours, infection, poisoning, lack of oxygen or degenerative neurological disease.

• Synapse
  Phone: 1800 673 074

Children and young people with developmental delay

Developmental delay, global developmental delay—applies to children aged 0–5 where conditions have appeared in the early developmental period, but no specific diagnosis has been made and the specific disability group is not yet known.

• Xavier Children's Support Network
  Phone: 1800 928 437

People with psychosocial disability

Schizophrenia, affective disorders, anxiety disorders, addictive behaviours, personality disorders, stress, psychosis, depression and adjustment disorders.

• Queensland Alliance for Mental Health (QAMH)

Carers of people with disability

Carers provide ongoing, unpaid care or support for family members or friends who need help with everyday tasks because of disability.

• Carers Queensland
  Phone: 1300 747 636

Culturally and Linguistically Diverse people with disability

People with disability from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, their family members and carers.

• AMPARO
  Phone: (07) 3354 4900

Central and Western Queensland area people with disability

People with disability, their families and carers, in the areas of Barcaldine, Barcoo, Blackall-Tambo, Boulia, Diamantina, Longreach, and Winton.

• Outback Independent Living
  Phone: 0477 645 577

Aboriginal peoples and Torres Strait Islander peoples with disability

All Aboriginal peoples and Torres Strait Islander peoples with disability including both adults and children with disability living in urban, regional, rural and remote areas of Queensland.

• Mob 4 Mob
  Phone:  (07) 3059 5353

Sector capacity and capability building program

For disability service providers

National Disability Services and CheckUP are the peak bodies for disability service providers.

• National Disability Services (for disability service providers medium to large in size with 20 or more employees)
  Phone: (07) 3828 9400
• CheckUP (for disability service providers who are sole traders or small businesses with 19 or less employees)
  Phone: (07) 3105 8300

Supported Accommodation Sector Support

Supported Accommodation Providers Association is the peak body for improving the quality of services and safety of supported accommodation service environments.

• Supported Accommodation Providers Association
  Phone: 1800 961 000

First Nations Community Controlled Sector Support

A First Nations Community Controlled peak that works with other First Nations peak bodies, partners with communities, improves capacity and capability of providers to support First Nations NDIS participants and stimulate thin markets.

• Queensland Aboriginal and Islander Health Council
  Phone: (07) 3328 8500