The NSW Council for Intellectual Disability (NSW CID) has a number of fact sheets which discuss and provide information about issues important to people with intellectual disability. Please feel free to make copies of these fact sheets or call us 02 9211 1611 or 1800 424 065.

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 us.

For more information see attached NSW CID’s fact sheets

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