Kids' Vision   "Kids' Vision" is a vision for disabled children and their families. It is an outcome of the Kids' Vision project, the first to emerge from the Partnership relationship between the Disabled Persons' Assembly and Ministry of Health Disability Issues Directorate in Auckland. The aim of the Kids' Vision project was to enable disabled people to participate in the formation of a strategic vision for disabled children. The Auckland Disabled Persons' Assembly held a number of focus groups in the latter half of 2000 with disabled children, their siblings and their parents. We asked them about their past and present experiences and how they would like things to be in the future, both for them and for other children and families. Common themes of greater participation and inclusion, better communication and service co-ordination, better information and more human support were expressed in each of the groups. The vision has been developed from the results of consultation with, and the involvement of, disabled children, their siblings and their families. (Click here to download a report of the consultation findings.) Drawing on the focus groups' feedback on past and current experiences of, and future ideals for, disability services, disabled adults have written "Kids' Vision" from a disability perspective.

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