NSW CID Health Fact Sheets – an exciting new resource providing information in the form of fact sheets on various health issues for people with intellectual disability. 

Please feel free to make copies of the fact sheets.

If you feel there are any issues that are of particular concern for people with intellectual disability, that have not been addressed within these fact sheets, please contact The NSW Council for Intellectual Disability (NSW CID).

Fact sheet topics include:  

• What Is Intellectual Disability?
• What to do when things go wrong: information for people with  intellectual disability and their families
• What is advocacy?
• What is systemic advocacy?
• Language: a powerful way of valuing people with intellectual disability
• Important historical milestones for people with disability
• Some common myths about people with intellectual disability
• Federal and State legislation relevant to people with intellectual disability

Go now to: NSW Council for Intellectual Disability - Fact Sheets