Young in Aged Care

Barnes and Dodson: Back At The Helm

Kiwi Sailors David Barnes and Rick Dodson have enjoyed successful careers at the top of their field,...

Change Makers: Dr Huhana Hickey

Dr Huhana Hickey is a key figure in the disability community. She's organising a hikoi to seek a bet...

Changemakers: Umi Asaka

Umi Asaka and her mother have Brittle Bone Disease. After witnessing her mother’s battle against dis...

My Perfect Family: Candle Dad

Raising four children alone is a challenge - more so, when two have Down Syndrome. Tony Sykes rose t...

My Perfect Family:Fragile X

To discover you’re the carrier of the genetic condition Fragile X only after your children are born ...

Being Me: Joshua

Joshua Sade-Inia is a burns survivor. The scars, which cover almost half his body represent his ins...

My Perfect Family: Martine

Blind since birth, Martine Able-Williamson is now a global leader in the blind community. In this i...

In My Mind: Breaking Point

To endure a breakdown at the pinnacle of your sporting career is tough. Former NRL star Paul Whatuir...

Being Me: Barney Looks Back

Barney lost his hands and legs from meningitis as a baby. At 25, he looks back on the life lessons ...

Crips In Cars: Jack & Jayden

Jack Tame is a TV personality and host of Breakfast. Jaden Movold is only 14 but is already working ...

Crips In Cars: Jess & Jason

Jessica Tyson is Miss World New Zealand and a mental health advocate. Jason Gillard has channelled h...

Crips In Cars: Paula & Hunter

Paula Bennett is a politician and former Deputy Prime Minister. Hunter McGregor studied media design...

Crips In Cars: Buckwheat & Don

Buckwheat AKA Edward Cowley is drag queen royalty and a Pacific health advocate. Don McKenzie is a f...

Crips In Cars: Oscar & Deb

Oscar Kightley is a comedian, actor and author. Deborah Lampshire is a mental health expert, a mothe...

Crips In Cars: Willie & Darya

Willie Waiirua is a social media influencer and musician. Darya Small is a social change maker livin...

My Perfect Family: The Fergusons Part 1

The Fergusons are an average family of five; they have fun, they fight, but mostly they get along. ...

My Perfect Family: Hunter

Hunter McGregor is a passionate gamer, a design school graduate, and he runs a B&B with his mum, Roi...

My Perfect Family: Welcome Home Stevie

Murray and Janine's son Steven was a gentle boy with autism. 18 months ago he left their house with ...

Unlocking Autism

As a neurologist and mother, Ros Hill is determined to unlock the mysteries of autism.

Timor Leste: A Love Story

Joel Morais Fernandes lives in Timor Leste, one of the poorest countries in the world. After a motor...

Outbreak: Vaccines

Vaccinations are a topic that polarises parents. Meet one mother who's certain her baby would be ali...

Where Are They Now? Louisa's Baby

While her family raises her son in New Zealand, Louisa lives in Samoa. 2 year old Lance is travellin...

Outbreak: Resistance

Antibiotics are a part of modern day life, but are we being prescribed too many, too often and to th...

Being Me: Geneva

Geneva Tino's cerebral palsy means she needs a TalkLink device to communicate... ironically the 24-y...

Robert Martin Makes History

Kiwi Robert Martin is in New York at the UN and making history as the first person with a learning d...

Living with Parkinson's: Clyde

When entrepreneur Clyde Campbell learned he had Parkinson's at 44, he started the Shake It Up founda...

The Road to Miss Amazing: Part 2

As the national Miss Amazing pageant in Chicago draws near so does the chance for one little 17-year...

Being Us: Liam and Shane

Liam has Down Syndrome, and while technically Shane is teaching him life skills, Liam's the one who'...

In Pot Pursuit: Part 1

Three characters with different medical reasons for wanting to use medicinal marijuana reveal the hu...

A Father's Love

Cliff, 79, has dedicated his life to caring for his now adult children with intellectual disabilitie...

Seclusion

Ashley lives with autism, behavioural challenges and mental un-wellness. He's in a secure mental hea...

My Deaf Parents

Parents and teenagers don't always see eye to eye, but what if they speak a different language? This...

Louisa's Baby

Thirty-two-year-old Luisa faces the cruel reality that bureaucracy and her disability stand in the w...

In Pot Pursuit: Part 2

California is a state where medicinal marijuana is legal, and dispensaries are plentiful. Meet peopl...

The Road to Miss Amazing: Part 1

Each year over a hundred girls with learning disabilities gather with the hope of being crowned Miss...

My Perfect Family: Meet the Asners

They call themselves the "The Brady Bunch of Autism". Descendants of Hollywood royalty, Matt and Nav...

Justice for FASD

Daniel and Jakob are 2 teens living with a surprisingly common, yet largely misunderstood disability...

Dean Finds His Voice

Eighteen-year-old Dean Buckley has overcome serious health issues, depression and the judgments of o...

My Perfect Family: Rett Girls

Rett Syndrome is a severe neurological condition affecting 1 in 12,000 girls. Meet 24-year-old Sarah...

Being Me: Petra

When she was six Petra was diagnosed with cancer. She beat it - four times before she was sixteen. N...

Return to Tuvalu

Stephen Homasi was the Director of Health for the remote island nation of Tuvalu. He never imagined ...

Parenting by Sign

Sarah is Deaf and preparing to give birth to her first child. Having been there twice before, Deaf p...

Robert Martin: The People's Advocate

From life in an institution to sitting at the tables of power; Robert Martin has become a leader and...

Marcia: Two Sides Of Me

On the Roller Derby court she's the revered 'Meat Train', but Marcia is starting to lose her hearing...

Together Apart

Everyday thousands of New Zealanders face loosing their loved ones to Alzheimer's. This is the story...

SheLift Part 1

Each year girls and women with various abilities and limb differences from all over the States meet ...

SheLift: Part 2

Each year girls and women with various abilities and limb differences from all over the States meet ...

My Perfect Family: Southland

Southland Disability Enterprises employs over 80 people who live with a disability. For Mary-Ellen J...

The Truth About Disability: Part 3

The final chapter in a series revealing the �truth about disability,� there are plenty of laughs in ...

Truth About Teenagers

Pimples, peer pressure and parents, being a teenager can be tough. Thirteen teens join us in a frank...

Mark Grantham: Mark's Vision

Mark has cerebral palsy and a goal to fly to Africa to visit the children he supports through World ...

Being Matt Frost

When the personal becomes political: Matt Frost, policy advisor and advocate asks us to take a walk ...

The Truth About Disability: Part 1

A three part series revealing the �Truth About Disability.� A wide range of perspectives on all the ...

Hunter's Universe: Hunter's World

Hunter is a young guy living with Autism. He has an unusual way of looking at the world. He writes s...

Four Go Flatting

Four young people reckon it's time they moved out of home and went flatting. But with intellectual d...

The Value of Art

In the art world they're referred to as outsider artists. They live with disability and they've neve...

The Truth About Disability: Part 2

Part two of a series revealing the truth about disability: a frank conversation on the more delicate...

My Perfect Family: Kim Preston

Raising three boys is always a big task, especially when two of them have severe autism. But Kim Pre...

Beauty Queen with Down Syndrome: Aubrey the Amazing

Aubrey Armstrong is a 13-year-old from Mississippi and she is full of sass! When she's not bossing h...

What's Your Possibility? Olivia Shivas

Olivia Shivas is a young disability advocate living with a rare form of Muscular Dystrophy. Shakti h...

What's Your Possibility? Paddy Walsh

Shakti has a chat with Paddy Walsh. Paddy, a 15 year old amputee and sportswoman talks to Shakti abo...

What's Your Possibility? Josh & Sophia

Sophia and Josh have very different disabilities. Shakti asks some tough questions about growing up ...

What's Your Possibility? Emma & Lizara

Shakti discusses growing up with a disability with friends Emma and Lizara.

What's Your Possibility? Rebecca Dubber

Rebecca is an accomplished Paralympian swimmer, with 4 medals over her career. Shakti and Rebecca ta...

Sir Robert Martin: A Human Rights Conversation

Sir Robert Martin's earliest memories are of appalling treatment in an institution. Now, he works wi...

Changemakers: Umi Asaka

Umi Asaka and her mother have Brittle Bone Disease. After witnessing her mother’s battle against dis...

Bulletproof: Pieta

Pieta Bouma was just 19 years old when she broke her back while living in Ecuador. Nearly two years ...

Change Makers: Dr Huhana Hickey

Dr Huhana Hickey is a key figure in the disability community. She's organising a hikoi to seek a bet...

Being Me: Cyrus

Resourceful 13-year-old Cyrus, who lives with Cerebral Palsy, wanted an accessible swing in the park...

Attitude The Panel Ep1

Episode one of our new addition, The Attitude Panel where members of this session discuss the their ...

What's the Disabili-Tea - Mamie Rose

Mamie Rose lives with Williams Syndrome and is a passionate advocate who uses modelling as her mode ...