Congratulations to Dr Olive Webb, President of ASSID
Olive has been appointed to be an Officer of the NZ Order of Merit in the most recent New Zealand Queen’s Birthday Honours List.
She received the award in recognition of her services to people with intellectual disabilities.
The Order is "for those persons who in any field of endeavour, have rendered meritorious service to the Crown and nation or who have become distinguished by their eminence, talents, contributions or other merits."
ASSID WA STATE CONFERENCE
Wednesday 13 August 2008 Technology Park Bentley WA "Staying in Tune with Evidence Based Practice" Read more..
IASSID Congress in South Africa - August 2008
The 13th IASSID World Congress is to be held from 25-30 August 2008 in Cape Town South Africa
ASSID Members (all categories) can register at the IASSID Member Rate.You MUST include the word “ASSID” AND your ASSID MEMBERSHIP NUMBER on the IASSID on-line registration form at the box that says “Organisation/Society”. If, for other purposes (eg postage) you need to include the name of your employing organization, you can insert this underneath, into the Address field. Only forms which include the ASSID Membership Number will be accepted
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Australasian Code of Ethics for Direct Support Professionals
ASSID has published a code of ethics to inform the education and training of direct support professionals. The code was co-launched in November 2007 during the Australasian-wide conference at Fremantle and the annual ASSID DSW Conference at Melbourne.
Twelve (12) ethical principles have been identified and a series of supporting guidelines developed. The guidelines are designed to inform the professional conduct of individual direct support professionals, for use as part of agency-based induction and in-service training and to inform curriculum content for TAFE, polytechnic, RTO and university courses.
To read more go to Publications – Books
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Journal of Policy & Practice in Intellectual Disabilities
We are pleased to offer members of ASSID a 40% discount off the personal subscription rate of IASSID's Journal of Policy and Practice in Intellectual Disability (JPPID). This new member benefit allows you to see all that JPPID has to offer for 40% less!