The forum covered a lot of issues, including PPE and support for self-managing participants. Two notable coming changes are more flexibility to use NDIS funding for devices for people who don’t already have one, and need one to access therapy and supports, and a conversation on grocery delivery charges for people who cannot access the supermarket or essentials through other ways.
This course is a foundation in how to provide best practice individual advocacy. You will learn how a person with disability works through advocacy issues with the assistance of advocates from a fictional disability advocacy organisation – All Areas Advocacy. Working through a series of real life scenarios you will get practical experience in applying the principles and skills of disability advocacy.
This early release module is part of a new online support worker training package that provides practical strategies for preventing and controlling infections. This 30 minute eLearning module is specifically designed for the Australian disability workforce and is aligned with the NDIS Quality and Safeguarding Framework. This module includes…
Closing date: December 21, 2020
Call for immediate proactive response to Coronavirus (COVID-19) for Australians with disability. The following is a list of issues that need to be addressed urgently to ensure the wellbeing of people with disability during the current COVID-19 public health emergency. Endorsed
This guide has been developed to help you understand the rules for DSP and decide whether to make a claim. It won’t tell you if you’ll get DSP. This is not a claim for DSP. You will be directed to other payments if you do not meet eligibility criteria.
Children with intellectual disability (ID) frequently have significant educational, social and health care needs, resulting in caregivers often experiencing a wide range of negative effects. This paper aims to determine the impact of childhood ID on caregivers’ health‐related quality of life (HRQoL) across co‐morbid diagnostic groups. The second aim of this study is to determine … Continued
“We’ve tested for usability — now we need to look at accessibility.” If you work in user research, you’ve probably heard statements like this. Researchers often go about testing for usability and accessibility as if they were separate things. We typically use one kind of framework to understand accessibility issues and another to understand usability issues.
This website was created as a platform by women and girls with disability, for women and girls with disability. ‘Our Site’ provides practical resources and information across five main areas including human rights, leadership and participation, decision making and choices, sexual and reproductive health and rights, and safety from all forms of violence.Australia.
The complete transcript from Friday 21 February, 2020 hearing of the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety is now available to read.
The Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety has published the submission on the future of the aged care workforce made by Counsel Assisting at the Adelaide Hearing 3. You can read it now on the Royal Commission website.
This report evaluates the design and development of a prototype Peer Support Platform that aimed to address the information, linkages and capacity (ILC) building needs of people with low vision and blindness. Consistent with the research literature, our user community survey established that people with low vision and blindness face persistent challenges in accessibility of digital information as well as spaces, venues and transport, and overcoming isolation and managing social connections.
This series of 10 episodes builds skills in supporting others in their decision-making. This kind of support is particularly important for people in our community whose decision-making has been ignored or undermined. We can help people reclaim their decision-making power through the support we offer.
The report makes 29 recommendations to improve the participant experience, including new standards and processes to support the delivery of the Participant Service Guarantee. It is available for download in a variety of formats.
Whether they are alleged victims or witnesses, children should be interviewed as part of investigations of alleged reportable conduct unless there is a good reason why this should not occur. This resource kit is designed to help organisations conduct effective and appropriate interviews with children and young people, and take a trauma-informed approach.
This podcast explores some of the most complex issues facing people with disability today. In Australia, one in five people live with disability. The podcast gives voice to people with disability and asks about their experiences with employment, housing, the law, supporting families and early intervention. A range of experts including people with disability, researchers and people working in the sector talk about what we can do to improve the lives of people with disability.