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  • Parents as Advocates

    Kevin Stone writes a submission and a set of recommendations concerning the advocacy role that parents need to take (in partnership with consumer based advocacy movements) in order to ensure effective service delivery and services that meet individual needs as opposed to the needs of staff, the needs of agencies...

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  • Invisible victims: sexual assault of people with an intellectual disability

    People with intellectual disability are particularly vulnerable to sexual assault. This is mainly due to a false set of assumptions about 'intellectual disability' but also about sexuality and people with an intellectual disability.

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  • A home to call my own: individualising a community lifestyle for Eric

    This is an inspiring story of what is possible when a person with developmental disability and challenging behaviour is enabled to make choices in their life.

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  • Including Children Who Challenge Us Most

    This paper is an outcome of a forum on inclusive education. After a brief introduction the bulk of the paper consists of a catalogue of the issues involved in inclusion put into alphabetical order. The paper ends with a list of recommendations which evolved during the two day forum.

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  • Living by your value base

    This brief article comprises a heart felt appeal by the author to all those working in human services to really evaluate the value base of their relationships with people using the service, as well as colleagues.

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  • Natural Supports: Reconceptualising Job Coach Roles

    This article describes strategies used by agency personnel to facilitate the successful settling in of people with disabilities in the workplace. The authors give four examples of people with disabilities and their different work scenarios.

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  • The Lives of Six Women

    A report of a study on six women with intellectual disabilities who moved from institutions into the community in 1985-87. The writers were involved in the process of integrating these women into the community. The bulk of the article focuses on these women's past lives before they were institutionalised.

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  • We need to be more creative with our resources

    The authors of this paper both work at the Victorian Ethnic Affairs Commission and were involved in a study investigating the needs of people from non English speaking backgrounds (NESB) with intellectual disabilities in relation to services and programs.

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  • Brokerage: Individual and family empowerment

    This paper gives a brief overview of the concept of brokerage and its possible applications. A couple of examples of situations where brokerage are described and a brief appraisal of some of the strengths and weaknesses. Keyword: Individualisation

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  • The influence of the socioeconomic characteristics of disabled people on their employment status and income

    A research article written by a white man with a disability looking at unemployment amongst people with disabilities in an effort to access whether variables such as class, race and gender have an impact on unemployment amongst this group of people.

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