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🧡App to communicate your health conditions & disabilities
🤳Tools & Activities to support you when it matters
🔒Your data is secure & private
📱On iOS & Android

26/10/2026

🧡Join us for our stage talk, "The Importance of Self-Advocacy", at the Brisbane Disability Expo on Saturday, 31st October 2026, at 12:00 PM AEST.

Our presentation will be accompanied by an Auslan Interpreter and Live Captioning.

Our founders will be on stage sharing:
• Why it's important for people living with visible and hidden challenges due to their disabilities to advocate for themselves.
• How people with disabilities can communicate their individual needs through self-advocacy.
• How self-advocacy can help people when they need assistance, reduce their risks and increase understanding.

Join us for the presentation, and say hello afterwards.❤

The Brisbane Disability Expo is free to attend and is taking place at the Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre, South Brisbane, QLD, Australia on the 30th and 31st of October, 2026

Image Description: This post shows an image with details about the HiAlert founders presenting a stage talk on "The Importance of Self-Advocacy" at the Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre, South Brisbane, QLD, Australia on the 30th and 31st of October, 2026, at 12:00 PM AEST.

20/10/2026

When living with health conditions and disabilities, the words we use and the way we express ourselves matter to who we are and who we are communicating with.

🟣Identity-first language
This is used when a health condition or disability is part of who the person is, part of their identity, culture, and part of their community.

Examples of Identity-first:

• “I am Autistic”
• “I am Deaf”
• “I am Disabled”
• “I am Diabetic”
• “I am Agoraphobic”
• “I am Epileptic”
• “I am Chronically ill”

🟠Person-first language

This is used when the person is put before their health condition or disability.

Examples of Person-first:

• “I have Autism”
• “I have EDS”
• “I have a Disability”
• “I have Diabetes”
• “I have Agoraphobia”
• “I have Epilepsy”
• “I have a Mental health condition”

Whichever way you choose to communicate is up to you; just choose wording that works for you, so when you need to express yourself to others, you feel comfortable doing so.❤️

Image Description: This post shows an image of examples of Identity-first language and person-first language. The image also has black text on the white background that states: Choose wording that works for you, so when you need to express yourself to others, you feel comfortable doing so.

01/10/2026

We’ve gone through themes in light mode, but what about dark mode?

Go to Settings, scroll and change to a colour theme of your choice.

In dark mode, you can also select from Default (Dark Purple), Purple, Green, Red, Pink, Blue, Light Blue, Grey and Accessible.

Bonus: Select ‘Auto’ instead of light mode or dark mode to match your device settings.

Video description: In this video, we show the Alert Card in the HiAlert app in dark Mode on an iPhone, and change it from the default app colour theme to all the other colour themes in the app.

29/09/2026

Ever wanted to change the colours on your Alert Card?

Go to Settings, scroll and change to a colour theme of your choice.

You can select from Default (Amber), Purple, Green, Red, Pink, Blue, Light Blue, Grey and Accessible.

Video description: In this video, we show the Alert Card in the HiAlert app in Light Mode on an iPhone, and change it from the default app colour theme to all the other colour themes in the app.

25/09/2026

Sharing your experiences about your health conditions and disabilities can be one of the bravest things you can do. ❤️

Maybe you share your experiences on social media, online, in a support group, with friends, with family, with new people you meet, when you need support, with organisations, or somewhere else to help others understand you.

Sharing something so personal about yourself isn't easy, but it can have a powerful impact.

❤️Your experiences can help someone think: “I'm not the only one”.
❤️Your experiences can help someone support you.
❤️Your experiences can help someone feel connected to you.
❤️Your experiences can help someone find strength and courage.
❤️Your experiences can help show where better support, services, policies and research are needed.

If you have shared your experiences, what you are doing is brave and makes a difference.

And if someone shares their experiences about their health conditions and disabilities with you, listen to them, be kind to them and be respectful. What they are doing is not easy. ❤️

Image Description: This post shows an image on a note page on an iPhone with text that states: Sharing your experiences about your health conditions and disabilities can be one of the bravest things you can do. Sharing something so personal about yourself isn't easy, but it can have a powerful impact.

22/09/2026

Brent is Deaf and has Jervell and Lange-Nielsen Syndrome. He reached out to share that he uses his HiAlert Alert Card when introducing himself to others.

Thank you Brent, for letting us share. We hope this can help others.🧡

Video description: In this video, we display Brent’s HiAlert Alert Card for Deaf and Jervell and Lange-Nielsen Syndrome. This is displayed in the purple app theme in light mode on an iPhone.

15/09/2026

If someone asks you for support, here's what you can do that helps.

🧡Believe and respect them
🧡Ask, don't assume
🧡Give them time
🧡Communicate with them, not about them
🧡Support them

💾 Save this for next time you're asked for support, or share it with someone who could use the reminder.

Image Description: This post shows images of what can be done to help someone who asks for support. The images have black text on a white background that states: believe and respect them, ask, don't assume, give them time, communicate with them, not about them and support them.

08/09/2026

It’s okay to take a break if you need it, just let someone know.🧡

Video description: In this video, from a seated person's point of view, they are watching someone write on a whiteboard. They open Tap Alert Cards in their HiAlert app and open the screen with the message "I Need a Break". They stand up and show the message to the person writing on the whiteboard, who gestures that it's okay for them to leave.

07/09/2026

Show your Alert Card wherever you need to ask for support or introduce yourself to be understood.🧡

Image Description: This post shows images of places you can show your HiAlert Alert Card. The places in the images displayed are gyms, restaurants, shopping centres, malls, pharmacies, drugstores, appointments, libraries, train stations, trains, parties, supermarkets, grocery stores, airports, planes and flights.

04/09/2026

With ME/CFS, Phoebe reached out to tell us that she used her Health Tracker and Health Profile to tell her Doctor how her nausea has been going with her new medication changes.

Thank you Feebee, for letting us share.🧡

Video description: In this video, we display an example of Phoebe's HiAlert Health Tracker that was used to track Nausea. This example is from what Phoebe told us she did. This is displayed in the default app theme in light mode on an iPhone.

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South Wharf, VIC
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