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Creating Work Opportunities for Europeans with Mental Handicap

"Meaningful work has value, conferring esteem, companionship, and other benefits as well as an income on the worker. If well planned, it can enable the worker with mental handicap to become integrated in the workplace and thus in the wider community.

Rapid Entry Training Field Manual

Some two hundred and fifty employees who also have intellectual disabilities have been trained in award jobs via the Rapid Entry Training System (RET).

Report of the National Consultations with People with Disabilities

The major objectives of these consultations was to provide a forum for people with a disability to have direct input and information on their views on the subjects covered in the governmental discussion paper "National Employment Initiatives for People with Disabilities" (File No. 3051), its recommendations and strategies.

National Employment Initiatives for People with Disabilities

This Report should be read in conjunction with File No. 3050. This discussion paper was commissioned by Neal Blewett as part of the Federal Government's disability reform agenda and was finally carried out under Brian Howe as Minister for Community Services and Health.

The Whole Community Catalogue

This is an excellent collection of stories and articles that are helping signify the current paradigm shift in the way we think about services for people with disabilities and how we define 'community'.

Self Help Groups: Getting started, keeping going

The author writes, "This guide draws on the experience of many self help groups and is a combination of practical advice and an account of how self help groups can best work. . . .

Expanding Options for Older Adults with Developmental Disabilities

This manual offers information on providing adults the same integrated opportunities that are offered to young people with disabilities. The book provides strategies for successful community involvement and the basic information needed to begin preparing older adults for various kinds of community access. N. B.

Support and Services for People with Disabilities: Proceedings of the SWRC Conference Number 76

This report is the proceedings of a special one day conference organised by SWRC and held in Sydney on September 23 1988. The general theme seems to have been 'community' specifically related to the process of deinstitutionalisation.

Disabled Children, Disabled Practices: SWRC Reports and Proceedings Number 37

The authors of this monograph interviewed 51 families on three occasions over a 12 month period to examine their use of health and welfare services for their young children with disabilities.

Sexual abuse and children with disabilities

This article is a brief synopsis of Janice Daar Watson's article on children and sexual abuse (found on our book shelves in, The Disabled Child and the Family ). Janice calls for positive sex education and an abuse prevention program for children who have intellectual disabilities.