National Ethnic Disability Alliance (NEDA) New Report
On Thursday 18 March, Hon Bill Shorten launched a NEDA report on the data about disability in people from non English speaking background.
The Report: People from Non English Speaking Background with disability in Australia: What does the data say? makes a number of observations about this group within our society.
The report highlights that:
1. More than 1 million people with disability are from non English speaking backgrounds.
2. Some form of recent migration heritage is a characteristic for over 40% of people with disability.
3. There is a higher prevalence of impairment for people born in a non English speaking country aged over 45 years of age
4. ‘first wave’ non English speaking migrants, have an incidence of disability up to 3 times that of the Australian born population.
The report evidences the need for key improvements in Australia’s data collection if we are to understand and meet the needs of people from NESB with disability. Otherwise immigrants with disabilities will miss out on delivery of services.
NEDA is the national peak organisation representing the rights and interests of people from non-English speaking background (NESB) with disability, their families and carers throughout Australia.
A copy of the report can be found on the NEDA website www.neda.org.au.
On Thursday 18 March, Hon Bill Shorten launched a NEDA report on the data about disability in people from non English speaking background.
The Report: People from Non English Speaking Background with disability in Australia: What does the data say? makes a number of observations about this group within our society.
The report highlights that:
1. More than 1 million people with disability are from non English speaking backgrounds.
2. Some form of recent migration heritage is a characteristic for over 40% of people with disability.
3. There is a higher prevalence of impairment for people born in a non English speaking country aged over 45 years of age
4. ‘first wave’ non English speaking migrants, have an incidence of disability up to 3 times that of the Australian born population.
The report evidences the need for key improvements in Australia’s data collection if we are to understand and meet the needs of people from NESB with disability. Otherwise immigrants with disabilities will miss out on delivery of services.
NEDA is the national peak organisation representing the rights and interests of people from non-English speaking background (NESB) with disability, their families and carers throughout Australia.
A copy of the report can be found on the NEDA website www.neda.org.au.
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