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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 ...Open AccessArticle -
ARC Industry Laureate Fellowship project newsletter
Published 2025The five-year Australian Research Council (ARC) Industry Laureate Fellowship project, led by Professor Jennifer Smith-Merry, continues to make strong progress toward improving outcomes for people with psychosocial disability ...Open AccessNewsletter -
ARC Industry Laureate Fellowship project newsletter - April 2026
Published 2026The five-year Australian Research Council (ARC) Industry Laureate Fellowship project, led by Professor Jennifer Smith-Merry, continues to make strong progress toward improving outcomes for people with psychosocial disability ...Open AccessOther -
ARC Industry Laureate Fellowship Project newsletter - Fixing the NDIS for People with Psychosocial Disability
Published 2025-10-09The five-year Australian Research Council (ARC) Industry Laureate Fellowship project, led by Professor Jennifer Smith-Merry, continues to make strong progress toward improving outcomes for people with psychosocial disability ...Open AccessNewsletter -
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 ...Open AccessArticle -
Beyond the NDIS: Unmet needs, Foundational Supports and system reform for psychosocial disability
Published 2025-10-09We conducted a survey of 1625 people in Australia, asking them about their views on recent and proposed reforms to the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) and broader psychosocial supports. In this report we have ...Open AccessReport, Technical -
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 ...Open AccessArticle -
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 ...Open AccessReport, Research -
Building a system of foundational supports for psychosocial disability across Australia
Published 2025The goal of the webinar "Exploring a foundational supports model for people with psychosocial disability: Presentation and Discussion" is to provide an evidence-based model that can spark discussion, and be utilised by the ...Open AccessPresentation -
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 ...Open AccessReport, 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 ...Open AccessArticle -
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 ...Open AccessOther -
The Cost of the National Disability Insurance Scheme: Australia’s Print‐Media Discourse
Published 2025This paper examines the way that Australian newspapers have framed the cost of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). Introduced in 2013, the NDIS represented a major change in Australia's disability support ...Open AccessArticle -
Crippled Grace: Disability, Virtue Ethics, and the Good Life
Published 2018Crippled Grace combines disability studies, Christian theology, philosophy, and psychology to explore what constitutes happiness and how it is achieved. The virtue tradition construes happiness as whole-of-life flourishing ...Book -
Crippling Christian Theology as I Power My Wheelchair Out the Door
Published 2020This article draws on the author’s experience of spinal cord injury to reflect on theological method and central elements of Christian theology. It uses disability theory to unmask the ablest ideology that too often frames ...Open AccessArticle -
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 ...Open AccessOther -
The dark side of prayer for healing: Toward a theology of well-being
Published 2014This paper explores the relationship between disability and pentecostal theologies and practices of healing. First, it draws on the testimony of people with a disability, describing the challenge of being the “elephant in ...Open AccessArticle -
Delivering private therapy in rural Australia
Published 2013-07-01Enabling high quality, sustainable and accessible services: A framework for rural private therapists.Open AccessOther -
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 ...Open AccessArticle -
Disability and the Complexity of Choice in the Ethics of Abortion and Voluntary Euthanasia
Published 2018In the polarized debates about abortion and voluntary euthanasia, disability advocates, who normally align with left-wing social forces, have tended to side with conservative and religious voices in expressing concerns ...Open AccessArticle