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."
IASSID Asia-Pacific Regional Conference
ASSID members can register at the IASSID Member Rate for the 2nd IASSID Asia-Pacific Conference, to be held at Singapore 24 to 27 June 2009. Abstracts need to be submitted by 28 November 2008. Registration details on the IASSID website soon.
For full details go to www.iassid.org
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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!