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My experience of going to the NZASID conference in Wellington

The photo shows Julia and Dog Migos at the NZASID conference.
Here is a photo of the Dog Migos who also came with me to the conference.

Julia Young (Research Assistant, Donald Beasley Institute)

On Sunday the 16th of March, Brigit, my mum, the Dog Migos and I flew up to Wellington the night before the NZASID conference. We stayed at the Rydges Hotel. It was really awesome. I had to wake up really early the next day, which was okay as well. We had breakfast at the hotel. I was really impressed with the breakfast buffet.

Brigit and I went to Shed 22 early to meet up with Jason Donovan, who presented with us later in the day. We went to see some of the other presentations, including the keynote presentations at the start, and then it was my turn before lunchtime, at about 11 am. It went really well, and at the end of my presentation, I got some good questions.

We also saw an awesome presentation about Cyber-Safety by Ben Healey and Rosie Zyskowski. They did a really awesome presentation.

Our team presentation on our Managing and Making My Own Decisions about My Health project was in the afternoon near the end of the day. Jason, Nic, Patrick and I did a really good presentation. It went really well. We got a lot of questions and Brigit and Henrietta helped us to answer them.

To sum it up, it was a really awesome conference to go to.

I also got to do more presenting recently, when I helped Brigit give a lecture to students taking a paper on Learning Disability in Aotearoa New Zealand at the Department of Nursing, University of Otago. Henrietta Trip runs the course. All the students were qualified nurses who work with people with a learning disability.

The lecture was about supported decision-making. It was an awesome experience to share my life experience with the students. It was also really awesome to talk and learn from each other. I really enjoyed it. Brigit also mentioned that the project we are working on is about supported decision-making and health.

Next up, I am really excited about getting to meet with the Community Researchers from Flinders University. The Community Research Group are involved in inclusive research with people with a learning disability too. One of their goals for the year was to connect with other researchers. Professor Sally Robinson is part of the group, and she visited us at the DBI last year. She set up the meeting, which is happening on Zoom. I will let you know about what happened in the meeting in the next newsletter!