My name is Kim, this is my daughter Sarah, she’s 10

Er… Sarah has both medical and intellectual disabilities, but she’s gorgeous aren’t you?

-Yeah I am a beautiful girl -There you go (laughs)

We’ve had OT we’ve had speech pathology

Most of the workers that Sarah encounters

be it at vacation care or through therapy, they’re compassionate

They’re people that see her as a person, they don’t see her as a problem

We do private speech pathology

umm, but we turn up and the speechy will talk to Sarah before she talks to me

What do you like doing Sarah?

-Haha umm, I like cooking -Cooking, and

I like dancing

Dancing. What do we do after we do the cooking?

-What do we do with the food that we cook? -Eat it

So she has normal interests, same interests as others kids

And Wiggles

And Wiggles. We’re still doing the Wiggles

She’ll sit down with her sister and do some drawing

It’s hard to visualise in a way going forward what life’s going to hold for Sarah

Uh I really want her to be happy, that’s the main thing

And I think anyone who would want to work with someone like Sarah would be a great person