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By<\/strong> Laura Amadio, VIC<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

My name is Laura Amadio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I work at Our Lady of Sion College<\/a> as a Library Assistant and a Food Tech Assistant. I am a past student of the College. I have just celebrated ten years service and I now have long service leave!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I love my job because I can go to work two days during the week and be with my work friends and talk about lots of different things.  I love welcoming the students in the library.  I really like meeting new students when the new year starts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am really great at keeping the library space clean for the students. I dust the shelves, clean the tables, sanitise books and keep the fiction books and picture books in order.  In the food tech room, I make sure all the tea towels are ready for classes, clean the cupboards and make sure all equipment is in the cupboards. I sometimes help get the food ready for the cooking class.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s important to give people with Down syndrome a chance because we should not be judged by our disability. It is not easy for us to find jobs because a lot of workplaces think it is hard to teach us how to do a job. But that is not true. <\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

People with Down syndrome are great workers because we are reliable and once we learn how to do a job we do it very well.  I love to socialise with my work friends and that makes me happy and when I am happy I work very well. Once I am taught how to do a job, I work hard at finishing it and doing it well. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Having a job makes me feel so happy. I want to one day live independently and earning my own money makes me feel that I will be able to do this and feel proud about what I can achieve. I love my workplace and feel very accepted by others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Laura Amadio works as as library assistant and a food tech assistant and shares her employment success story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":533,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"76","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[10,8,38,5,15,9,6,43,4,42,39,7],"class_list":["post-506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-employment","tag-disability","tag-down-syndrome","tag-dsv","tag-employment","tag-inclusion","tag-intellectual-disability","tag-job","tag-library","tag-right-to-work","tag-school","tag-victoria","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/right-to-work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/right-to-work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/right-to-work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/right-to-work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/right-to-work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/right-to-work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1127,"href":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/right-to-work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506\/revisions\/1127"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/right-to-work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/right-to-work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/right-to-work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/right-to-work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}