Who are we?
Embrace Access is a training and resource centre, led entirely by people with disability. We help Australian organisations welcome people with communication disabilities, delivering best-practice Easy Read resources, evidence-based training workshops and collaborative disability codesign projects.
Our mission
We think every Australian, disabled or not, should have the opportunity to access information and services they need. Our mission is to give Australian organisations the confidence to embrace access, and the drive to connect with Australians with communication disabilities. We strive to teach organisations that being inclusive is easy and endlessly rewarding.
Our difference
We use speech pathology best-practices to help organisations be communication accessible. We're a team of advisors with communication disabilities and neurodivergent speech pathologists. Using disability codesign, we offer communication access solutions that help organisations be inclusive of people with a range of communication support needs.
Ruby Yee, Director
Ruby is an autistic speech pathologist dedicated to making communication more accessible. Her work began in 2017 working alongside Scope Australia's award-winning Communication Access service, teaching inclusive practice to Australia's leading providers across transport, utilities, sports and recreation, essential services, banking and finance, non-profit and government sectors.
Since 2018 Ruby has supported a growing number of Australian businesses to publish Easy Read and plain language for people with low English literacy and communication disability. As a firm believer in evidence-based practice, Ruby co-authored academic research in 2019 revealing how staff training can help people with communication disability to speak up about abuse and neglect.
With additional tertiary qualifications in education and psychology, Ruby's mission is to build the capacity of others, shift attitudes, and spread communication disability confidence.
Ruby founded Embrace Access to challenge how we see communication disability. Rather than changing the disabled person, Embrace Access changes the environment—ensuring communication partners respect difference, and adapt confidently to meet diverse needs.