Individual Advocacy

Individual Advocacy means ‘standing beside’ someone, or standing up for someone’s rights.

An advocate is on the client’s side if they are being treated unfairly and will assist them to work out what action they would like to take, and how advocacy can facilitate their identified outcome. Speak Out employs advocates who are experienced in working with people living with a disability.

Self Advocacy

Self Advocacy means that individuals with disabilities speak up for themselves, make decisions about their own lives, and assert their human rights. It involves understanding their own needs, knowing available resources, and effectively communicating those needs to others.

Systemic Advocacy

Systemic Advocacy is about efforts aimed at creating broader social, legal, and policy changes to improve the lives of people with disabilities. Unlike individual or self-advocacy, which focuses on individual needs, systemic advocacy addresses barriers that affect entire groups. It seeks to make society more inclusive and accessible through legal reforms, public awareness, and policy improvements.

Fee for Service - Accessible Information & User Testing

Speak Out has developed a number of  easy read resources to assist people with intellectual disability to understand and navigate complex source material.

Animations provide accessible/easy to understand information to people with intellectual disability, and podcasts to raise the profile of intellectual disability in the community.