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Addressing the barriers to accessing therapy services in rural and remote areas
Published 2012-08-01Purpose: Throughout the world, people with a disability who live in rural and remote areas experience difficulty accessing a range of community-based services including speech-, physioand occupational therapy. This paper ...Article -
Barriers to the use of Information and Communication Technology by occupational therapists working in a rural area of New South Wales, Australia
Published 2013-01-01Background/aim: This qualitative study formed part of a large-scale, multi-phase study into the delivery of therapy services to people with a disability, living in one rural area of New South Wales, Australia. The study’s ...Article -
Boosting the recruitment and retention of new graduate speech-language pathologists for the disability workforce
Published 2016-01-01New graduate speech-language pathologists (SLPs) will play an integral role in meeting the anticipated growth in demand for a highly skilled disability workforce under the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). Despite ...Article -
Breaking down Barriers: Co-designed recommendations to reduce stakeholder identified NDIS access barriers for people with psychosocial disability
Published 2022-09-16The Issue The National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) commenced in 2016 and is designed to support people with all types of disability including those living with psychosocial disability. However, many thousands of ...Report, Research -
Capacity Building for Disability Inclusive Disaster Risk Reduction in Indonesia
Published 2015-06-01This Technical Report details the Capacity Building component of the Promoting the Inclusion of People with Disabilities in Disaster Management in Indonesia project. This project was funded by the Australian Government ...Report, Technical -
Carer and service providers’ experiences of individual funding models for children with a disability in rural and remote areas
Published 2013-01-01There is a global movement for people with a disability towards personcentred practices with opportunities for self-determination and choice. Person-centred approaches may involve individual funding (IF) for the purchase ...Article -
Carer' Therapy Access Survey
Published 2014-06-01In response to a Carers’ Therapy Access Survey conducted from November 2012 until July 2013, 166 carers shared their insights on the therapy access requirements of people with a disability or developmental delay in western ...Other -
Cross Sector Service Coordination for People with High and Complex Needs: Harnessing Existing Evidence and Knowledge
Published 2014-08-01People with high and complex needs will generally need an array of supports to enable social and economic participation as envisaged by the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). As participants, these people will ...Other -
Delivering private therapy in rural Australia
Published 2013-07-01Enabling high quality, sustainable and accessible services: A framework for rural private therapists.Other -
Developing the rural health workforce to improve Australian Aboriginal health outcomes: a systematic review
Published 2016-01-01Objective: The aim of this study was to identify evidence based strategies in the literature for developing and maintaining a skilled and qualified rural and remote health workforce in Australia to better meet the health ...Article -
Disability and Wellbeing Monitoring Framework: Baseline indicator data for Australians aged 18-64 years
Published 2022-05-02This report presents the first national data using the Disability and Wellbeing Monitoring Framework and Indicators developed by the National Health and Medical Research Council Centre of Research Excellence in Disability ...Report, Research -
The Disability Inclusive Disaster Resilience (DiDR) Tool: Development and Field Testing
Published 2015-06-01This is the third Technical Report in a three part series for the two year DFAT Australian Aid funded project (2013-2015), Promoting the Inclusion of People with Disabilities in Disaster Management in Indonesia. This report ...Report, Technical -
Disability Transitions Across the Life Course: Preliminary Data from Australia
Published 2013-02-01The aim of this working paper is to present preliminary analyses of longitudinal data from Australia that addresses various aspects of the dynamic nature of disability over time. Disability research is dominated by ...Working Paper -
Eligibility, the ICF and the UN Convention: Australian perspectives
Published 2010-04-01The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, in Australia, acts as a philosophical and moral statement and framework guiding integrated and strategic policy across the nation. Broad policy agreement has ...Article -
Estimated Prevalence and Living Circumstances of Parents with Intellectual Disability In Australia from Selected National Surveys
Published 2014-07-01Analysis of SDAC 2009 data identified an estimated 0.41% of Australian parents had intellectual disability. This equates to an estimated 17,000 parents with intellectual disability residing in private dwellings in Australia. ...Report, Technical -
Examining employment barriers and enablers for people with psychosocial disability – A scoping review
Published 2023-10-10This report details the findings of our study about the employment of people with psychosocial disability. This research was commissioned by Candella and conducted by two researchers from the Centre for Disability Research ...Report, Research -
Factors affecting retention of allied health professionals working with people with disability in rural New South Wales, Australia: discrete choice experiment questionnaire development
Published 2015-01-01Objective: This paper describes the development of a discrete choice experiment (DCE) questionnaire to identify the factors (attributes) that allied health professionals (AHPs) working with people with disability identify ...Article -
In Search of an Integrative Measure of Functioning
Published 2015-05-01International trends towards people-centred, integrative care and support require any measurement of functioning and disability to meet multiple aims. The information requirements of two major Australian programs for ...Article -
The incurable self: Negotiating social bonds and dis/connection with metastatic breast cancer
Published 2023As the culture of silence that once surrounded cancer has gradually given way to greater public awareness, normative visions of what cancer survivorship should entail have proliferated. These visions emphasise positivity ...Article -
Individual Funding: the experiences of families in rural areas
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