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9th Disability Support Worker Conference Melbourne November 2009 Minimize

 

DSW09 Conference Opening Keynote Address:
 
Benner
You're the One - Finding the Sexpert Within
 
Cannon
DSWs working in partnership
 
Cookson
Why would you want to be a Disability Worker
 
Coombes
‘The Rights Stuff’ - Tips for handling complaints & solving problems
 
Cramer and Forbes
Our best work: supporting people with disabilities into meaningful employment
 
Cusack
A Rights Based Approach to the Disability Support Work Place
 
Epilepsy Foundation
Epilepsy Care & Management for Disability Support Workers
 
Fester, Zazelis, Webber and McVilly
Measuring the quality of behaviour support plans for adults with intellectual disability
 
Forster
Hanging out Program: Interaction for people at risk of isolation
 
Frawley, O'Shea and Willis

Sexuality & Relationship support for people with an intellectual disability: Policy to practice

 
Fry
Disability Support Work in Tertiary Education
 
Lante
Adapting Physical Activities for People with Disabilities: How do I do it?
 
Lante
Creating A Sporting Chance; The Impact of a communitybased physical activity program
 
Lawson
 
Lawson
Autism & Cognitive Challenges
 
Lyon
Visual Strategies to support communication and participation
 
Matthews, Rawlings, Turner, Bowman
A Simple Case of Positive Self Presentation?
 
McVilly and Webber
Functional Behaviour Assessment –fundamental skills for disability professionals supporting people with behaviours of concern
 
Murphy
How do you define a difference?
 
Phillips, Johnson, Iacono and Hagiliassis
Collaboration in the Development of Behavioural Social Scripts to Reduce Behaviours of Concern and Restrictive Practice
 
Ramcharan
 
Riley and Spykers
 
Steer
 
Tracy
 
Tracy
 
Wark
Ageing and Disability: The Training Needs of Disability Support Workers
 
Webber
Bright Ideas for reducing restraints
 
Welsh
Are you working with people with dual disability?
 
Wilson
It’s not the plan it’s the relationship: a pilot study of outcomes of person centred planning
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Amour and Moiffin

PATH - Planning Alternative Tomorrows With Hope

 

Brandford

Elimination of Restrictive Practices – Are we on Track

  

Conder and Mirfin-Veitch

  The children of parents with an intellectual disability“He will be just like his Mum and Dad”:

 

Duff, Sakdalan and Stewart

International Comparison of Attitudes Towards People with Intellectual Disability

 

Brown

Latch On

 

Evans

The emotional function of challenging behaviour: What if your EQ is higher than your IQ?

 

Quick, Dever & Gladstone

My Life When I leave School’ Transition Project

 

Hanna

Our journey in reducing restrictive practices

 

 Hawkins, Conder and Jenkins  

Participating in the Great Life Project. 

 

Henderson

Adults’ competence to give consent (or refuse consent) to medical treatment

 

Higgins, Evans-Turner, Milner, Mirfin-Vietch, Gates, & Collins.

Working in intellectual Disability Services in New Zealand: An overview of current researcdh

 

Llewellyn

Healthy Start

 

Llewellyn

From theory to practice: Life conditions and disability

 

Lowe 

Bringing People Together:  Building Relationships between Teenagers and their Peers in a School Environment.

 

Matthews

Mental Illness in Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder

 

Mirfin-Veitch

What difference does it make? Citizenship and community participation in the lives of adults with intellectual disability

 

Mitchell & Ryan

Look both ways before crossing

 

Parish & Johns

A place of our own

 

Phillips

Teaching Residents to Teach Other Residents

 

Prebble & Vickery

Legislating for Care: An exploration of the Role of Care Managers under the IDCCR Act

 

Robson

The Journey

 

Sakdalan & Collier

 “Are you Safe?”: Development of an Evidence-Based ID Sex Offender Treatment

 

Sakdalan & Collier

 “Staying in the Here-and-Now”: A Pilot Study on the Use of Dialectical Behavior Therapy Group Skills Training with Intellectually Disabled Offenders

 

Sullivan

Putting People First in Disability Research

 

Thomas

Elimination of Restrictive Practices in New Zealand: Are we on track?

 

Trip

The Functional Health Assessment Tool (TFHAT) & the interface between people with an intellectual disability & general practitioners

 

Wright

Using Available Data Sources to Describe the Population of People with Intellectual Disability in New Zealand

 
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Atkinson & Cooper
Writing a life history
 
Bloomberg et al
The revised Triple C Assessment- valid and reliable results!
 
 Boer
The ecological validity of common risk assessment strategies for offenders with intellectual disabilities.
 
Burgen
Women with cognitive impairment’s experiences of unplanned or unwanted pregnancy.
 
Chan, Thave & Lim
The inclusion of children with Down Syndrome in mainstream primary school in Singapore.
 
Chiu & Potter
Translating family-centred principles into optimal service delivery
 
Clement & Bigby
 
Cocks, Boaden & McKernan
The personalised residential supports project. Identifying the nature, purposes and outcomes of personalised residential supports for adults with developmental disabilities.
 
Cole
Pre-admission assessment for people with intellectual disability.
 
Conder et al
Planned pregnancy, planned parenting: Evidence for policy & practice
 
Curran. Jenny
Diversity is the spice of life: Working to improve the emotional and mental health assessment of people with developmental disabilities and mental health problems.
 
Davey, Brown, Willis & Ford
 Self employment, self determination and self reliance for people with disabilities
 
Davis & Bunney
Scouting for all- A partnership in inclusion between Therapy Focus and Scouts WA
 
Dikian
A method for undertaking formal reviews of behaviour support systems in agencies providing support to people with intellectual disabilities.
 
Dini
Children with intellectual disability in foster care. A specialist intervention program to support foster families. Resources, Services & Opportunities.
 
Ellem et al
Parents of Children with a Disability: Intergenerational Obligations and Plans for Retirement in the Baby Boomer Cohort.
 
Ellem et al
Transition from prison to mental health facilities for people with an intellectual disability in QLD: Issues for service delivery and society.
 
Forster & Iacono
What’s happening in interactions between Disability Support Workers and people with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities? Different coding perspectives.
 
Gougeon
Secondary school personnel views of comprehensive sexuality education for individuals with intellectual disabilities
 
Gray et al
Developmental outcomes in young children with Autism and developmental delay.
 
Grech
Developmental delay: An ambiguous term in need of change.
 
Harman
Are we there yet? Or is it better to travel than to arrive?
 
Hayes at al
The evidence from Magistrates Courts- prevalence of accused persons with intellectual and cognitive disabilities.
 
Lawson
The Autistic and Typical Spectrum.

 Lennox

Health Assessments in people with Intellectual Disability: A Review

 
Lloyd
Ways to make care more collaborative, empowering, accountable and joyous.
 
Madden, Lee and Sykes
The importance of using a common language.
 
Martin et al
Self regulation. A comparitive study between children with Down Syndrome and typically developing children, with respect to observed strategy use and reported characteristics.
  
Mayer
The Narrative of Choice: Examining the Effectiveness of strengths-based behaviour support approaches in a disability context
 
McPherson et al 
Recruitment & retention difficulties in a RCT involving adolescents with intellectual disability.
 
McVilly et al
Active support: a guide to those planning implementation, based on the experiences of previous implementations.
 
McVilly, Weber & Chan
Restraint and seclusion: Current practices; contemporary concerns and future directions.
 
Mora & Chapparo
Impact of sensory protocol on behavioural responses of children with intell.disability, sensory defensiveneness and beh. support needs.
 
Moyle, Iacono & Liddell
Implications of undergraduate training in developmental disabilities in a global educational environment.
 
Moyle, Iacono & Liddell
Undergraduate training in developmental disabilities of Malaysian Medical Practitioners. 
 
Parish, Ros & Oniszk
Develop/ implement a healthy menu plan for people living in community group homes to improve nutritional intake and health.
 
People First Christchurch
“The Puzzle of HOW”. How do we transform our ideas into action.
 
Perepa & Jordan
Cultural perceptions about Autism Spectrum Disorders and social behaviour: Implications for a multicultural society.
 
Rianto & Lee
Health, behaviour & functional status in older people with intellectual disability.
 
Rianto et al
Carer experiences supporting older people with intell. disability.
 
Riches et al
Active Support and the Sunshine State (QLD). 
 
Robinson
 Heart Hurt: Emotional and psychological abuse and neglect of people with intellectual disability.
 
Ryan, Woodyatt & Copland
Conversations in dual diagnosis: The impact of formal thought disorder on conversation.
 
Sangster
How support workers of people with learning disabilities negotiate the tension between their protection and empowerment as sexual beings?
 
Small
Diagnosis & assessment services; Review of literature/ services in NSW.
 
Stancliffe & Dempsey
Writing a journal article: Journal of Intellectual and Developmental Disability Editors’ Workshop.
 
Stancliffe & McVilly
Outcomes of Active Support: Increased participation and adaptive behaviour, reduced depression and challenging behaviour.
 
Steer
Evidence- based research and the political process: A double helix effect.
 
Stephenson
The effect of music on the communication behaviour of students with severe intellectual disability.
 
Taylor et al
A randomised controlled trail of 2 interventions to improve the healthcare of people with intellectual disability living in the community.
 
Taylor et al
To the point: the development and evaluation of a website about Diabetes for adults with intellectual disability and their care providers.
 
  

Thomson et al

Family caregivers: How do they deal with stress?

 

Trip

The Functional Health Assessment  Tool (TFHAT) & The Interface Between People with an Intellectual disability & General Practitioners

 

Wade, Godwin & Scully

Fifty years of peer support for parents of children with intellectual disability. Resources, Services and Opportunities.

 

Wade, Llewellyn & Matthews

Consideration of context in programs for parents with learning difficulties: A review of the intervention literature.

 

Wade, Mildon & Polimeni

Using evidence based practice to improve family-practitioner partnerships: Case studies from the Healthy Start Strategy.

 

 Wen & Brown

Intellectual disability: transitions from home to school and from school to adult life, need and use of disability services.
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Life Experiences of Parents with a young adult son or daughter with Intellectual Disability who share the family home: Letting go of the pathogenic paradigm

Murray Rieck

Psychologist, Disability Services Queensland

 

 

‘Voices for Change’: Participatory Action Research in partnership with young adults with Down Syndrome in New South Wales.

Miriam Stevenson PhD Candidate  University of Sydney

Supervisors:  Professor Barbara Fawcett   Dr Margot Rawsthorne

(Faculty of Education and Social Work)

 

 

Defining the Sexual Health Needs of Men with an Intellectual Disability: A Salutogenic Approach

 

 

Cluster Housing:  What is its likely impact?

Robert L. Jackson  PhD

Edith Cowan University

 

 

Happy feet: keeping feet in tune

Paula Burgess and Chris Atkins

Health Care Team, Disability Enterprises, Leura NSW

 

 

Making Sense of Communication- A Collaborative Approach to Sensorimotor Therapy

Pia Turner and Irene Orkopoulos

Project Officers  Therapy Focus Inc

 

 

Promoting Participation and Quality of Life:  Use of the Life Needs Model (King et al, 2002) to guide service planning

Louella Vogel

Clinical Standards Officer, Therapy Focus Inc.

 

 

Talking Mats: Making Choices and Expressing View for People with Communication Support Needs

Irene Orkopoulos   Project Officer  Therapy Focus  July 2007

 

 

Using a clinical audit tool to examine life long learning  in the disability sector

Abigail Lewis  

Clinical StandardsOfficer   Therapy Focus Inc

 

Heidegger, Dasein and Disability: Re-thinking what it means to be Human?

Terri Fealy
La Trobe University

Dorothy Atkinson

The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK

 
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ASSID 41st Annual Conference Papers - Canberra 2006 Minimize
 
Making a Connection - An Art in Asking “Seeking their Truth” in a Fun Way 
Fay Beatty
Griffith University, Qld
 
Developing Emotions and Problem Solving Skills in Individuals with Disabilities
Dolly Bhargava
Ylana Bloom, Speech Pathologist, Augmentative
Communication Consultants, Innovative Communication Programming

Using Augmentative Communication to Provide Positive Behaviour Support
to Manage Challenging Behaviour
Dolly Bhargava
Speech Pathologist, Augmentative Communication
Consultants, Innovative Communication Programming
 
The Predictors of Empowerment for Parents and Carers of People with
Intellectual Disabilities Within the Direct Consumer Funding Model
Dr Angus Buchanan
Director, Metropolitan Services Co-ordination,
Disability Serviced Commission, Adjunct Associate Professor, Curtin University of Technology, WA
 
The 9th Standard, Reducing Unwanted Risk for People with Disabilities and for Disability Workers
Bill Budiselik
Senior Partner, Archbold Budiselik and Associates, WA

 

“Hit the Ground Running!” The Account of an Intensive Behaviour Support Project for People
with Disabilities and Challenging Behaviours
Morag Budiselik
Senior Clinical Psychologist, Disability Services Commission, Perth, WA

Learning to Care, Addressing Training Challenges in Disability Services
Morag Budiselik
Senior Clinical Psychologist, Disability Services Commission, WA

Making Sex Safe and Fun: Going Beyond the Barriers
Jane Chivers
Health Promotion Officer, Family Planning NSW and HIV and Sexual Health, Sydney West Area Health Service, NSW
 
A Practice Guide for Understanding the Function of Behaviour: Resilience Through Capacity Building 
David Doyle
Senior Clinical Consultant, Statewide Behaviour Intervention Service, 
NSW Department of Ageing Disability and Home Care

Sunlight, Skin Cancer and Bones: Making Sense of “Mixed” Messages
Seeta Durvasula
Centre for Developmental Disability Studies, University of Sydney, NSW
 
“My Knowledge is Not as Good as Other People’s”:
People with an Intellectual Disability Having an Equal and Meaningful Voice in Government Advisory Forums
Patsie Frawley
PhD student, LaTrobe University, Vic
 
Initial Investigation of Organisational Factors Relevant to Implementing Active Support
Dr Chris Fyffe
Jeffrey McCubbery
Disability Consultants, Fyffe and McCubbery Consultants, Vic 
 
Institutional Closure and the Resilience of Long-term Staff
Sue Gates,
 Senior Researcher, Donald Beasley Institute, New Zealand
 
Investigating the Transition of Children with Autism from School, to the Community,  
Work, or Further Education
Anthony Harman
MSc (DD) Hons, Centre for Developmental Disability Studies (CDDS), NSW
Service Provision For People with Intellectual Disability and SPIED
(Severe and Persistent Interpersonal and Emotional Disturbance):
Issues in Translating Theory into Practice
Michelle Henwood
Senior Clinical Consultant
Statewide Behaviour Intervention Service
Department of Ageing, Disability and Home Care

“Community Healthcare Coordinator” –
a Developing Role within a Support Service for People who have an Intellectual Disability
Ron Hyder
Healthcare Co-ordinator 
Peter Brookhouse
Chief Executive Officer
Gail Foster, Manager Client Support
‘Focus’ which represents the Individualised Support Services of Kidilan Society

Teacher Education as an Agent of Hope for an Inclusive Society
Dr Levan Lim
National Institute of Education (NIE), Nanyang University, Singapore

The Value of Health Care Planning for People with Disabilities: A Formative Evaluation
Dr Sarah Mott
Research Consultant, Royal Rehabilitation Centre Sydney, NSW
 
Reviewing the Deaths of People with Disabilities in Care
Kathryn McKenzie
Team Leader, Reviewable Disability Deaths, NSW Ombudsman
 
Modern Marriage: An Innovative Partnership Approach to Developing Positive Sexuality Policy
Rachael Mogan and Patrick Duley
Family Planning NSW

Taking the Risk to Love, Self-Advocacy and Relationships in Residential Services
Simon Atkinson, Robyn Rainey,
Margaret Matheson, Steve Bull, and Pamela Shanks,
Hohepa Canterbury Community Support Group, New Zealand

In Whose Interests? Restricting the Freedom of Movement of Potential
Offenders with Intellectual Disabilities
Jim Simpson
Systemic Advocate, Researcher and Presiding Member, NSW
Guardianship Tribunal and Mental Health Review Tribunal, NSW

Systemic Advocacy – A Perspective on what Works
Jim Simpson
Systemic Advocate, Researcher and Presiding Member, NSW
Guardianship Tribunal and Mental Health Review Tribunal, NSW
 
Writing a Journal Article: Journal of Intellectual and Developmental Disability
Editor’s Workshop
Professor Roger Stancliffe
Centre for Developmental Disability Studies, Royal Rehabilitation Centre Sydney, NSW
 
Participation: Lessons from the Past, Hope for the Future
Professor Roger Stancliffe 
Centre for Developmental Disability Studies, Royal Rehabilitation Centre, Sydney, NSW

Hope for the Future:
The Australian Deaf Blind Council Confronts National Service Provision Legacy
Dr Michael Steer
Senior Lecturer, Vision Impairment, Renwick Centre, Royal
Institute for Deaf and Blind Children, and The University of Newcastle, NSW
 
Forewarned is Forearmed:
Hope for the Future Through Crafted Policy Implementation Strategy
Dr Michael Steer
Senior Lecturer, Vision Impairment, Renwick Centre, Royal Institute for Deaf and Blind Children
and The University of Newcastle, NSW 
 
Building Capacity and Resilience in us all
Dr Jane Tracy
Education Director, Centre for Developmental Disability Health Victoria,
School of Primary Health, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, Monash University, Vic

Meeting the Health Support Needs of People with Disability in the Community,
a State and Sector Wide Approach 
Denice Wharldall,
CEO Leveda Inc,
Kate Mills,
Executive Nurse Manager CARA
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