Larry
People with intellectual disabilities should get the same health care as everyone else.
Donna
The Department of Health and Aged Care worked with people with disabilities
to write a guide for health care students.
Larry
We call this guide the framework.
Donna
The framework is to teach health care students about intellectual disability
and supporting people with intellectual disability well.
Larry
Why is the framework important to people with intellectual disability?
Donna
It was an opportunity for us people with disabilities to say the way that we wanted to be treated.
Larry
It's important for doctors to know how to talk to us.
Donna
We always have to repeat our stories when we go to the doctors.
Hugo
Doctors and nurses need to listen to me.
Donna
The framework is a guide for what people with disabilities go through.
Larry
I get frustrated if I don't understand what doctors are saying. Then I don't know what I need to do next.
Donna
Health workers should talk to me and not my carers.
Hugo
I want doctors and nurses to listen to me and communicate better.
Larry
Doctors need to be taught at uni when they are learning.
Donna
Why was being part of making the Framework important to you?
Larry
I like coming up with ideas and sharing them.
Donna
Look what we can do when we work together. And I was proud to be part of the project.
Larry
I wanted them to know how people with intellectual disability feel.
Hugo
I can have a strong voice.
Donna
I know it's going to work because we helped make it.
Larry
It was important for me to have a say about what needs to change.
Donna
Everybody had an opportunity to voice their opinion, and we got to own the project.