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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 -
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 -
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 -
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 ...Open AccessReport, 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 ...Open AccessReport, 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 ...Open AccessWorking 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 ...Open AccessArticle -
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. ...Open AccessReport, 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 ...Open AccessReport, Research -
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 ...Open AccessArticle -
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 ...Open AccessArticle -
Left Behind 2011: Monitoring the Social Inclusion of Young Australians with Disabilities, 2001-2009
Published 2011-06-01Adolescents and young adults with disabilities are at heightened risk of social exclusion. Exclusion leads to poor outcomes in adulthood which in turn affects individuals’ health and wellbeing and that of their families ...Open AccessReport, Technical -
Left Behind 2013: Monitoring the Social Inclusion of Young Australians with Self Reported Long Term Health Conditions, Impairments or Disabilities 2001-2011
Published 2013-02-01This report maps the extent of social inclusion or exclusion of young disabled Australians, aged between 15 and 29, over the years 2001 to 2011. It found that although the social inclusion of young disabled Australians ...Open AccessReport, Technical -
Left Behind 2014: Monitoring the Social Inclusion of Young Australians with Self Reported Long Term Health Conditions, Impairments or Disabilities 2001-2012
Published 2014-03-01The first Technical Report reporting on the time period 2001-2009, reported that disabled Australian adolescents and young adults were more likely to experience social exclusion than their non-disabled peers, and that the ...Open AccessReport, Technical -
Left Behind 2014: Monitoring the Social Inclusion of Young Australians with Self-Reported Long Term Health Conditions, Impairments or Disabilities 2001-2012
Published 2014-06-01This Policy Bulletin is the second in an annual series reporting on the social inclusion/ exclusion of young Australians (aged between 15 and 29) with self-reported long term health conditions, impairments or disabilities. ...Open AccessOther -
LEFT BEHIND: MONITORING THE SOCIAL INCLUSION OF YOUNG AUSTRALIANS WITH SELF- REPORTED LONG TERM HEALTH CONDITIONS, IMPAIRMENTS OR DISABILITIES 2001 - 2009
Published 2013-04-10Adolescents and young adults with disabilities are at heightened risk of social exclusion. Exclusion leads to poor outcomes in adulthood which in turn affects individuals’ health and wellbeing and that of their families ...Open AccessReport, Technical -
LEFT BEHIND: 2013 MONITORING THE SOCIAL INCLUSION OF YOUNG AUSTRALIANS WITH SELF-REPORTED LONG TERM HEALTH CONDITIONS, IMPAIRMENTS OR DISABILITIES 2001 - 2011
Published 2013-02-01Disabled Australian adolescents and young adults are more likely to experience social exclusion than their non-disabled peers. The gap between the two actually widened between 2001 and 2011. Social exclusion in adolescence ...Open AccessOther -
Monitoring Manual and Menu (MM+M) for CBR and other Community-Based Disability Inclusive Development Programs - Manual
Published 2014-04-01Community-Based Rehabilitation (CBR) is a valued community development approach but there is a lack of evidence of its efficacy (World Report on Disability 2011; and more recently confirmed in the Global Disability Action ...Open AccessReport, Technical -
Monitoring Manual and Menu (MM+M) for CBR and other Community-Based Disability Inclusive Development Programs - Menu
Published 2014-04-01Community-Based Rehabilitation (CBR) is a valued community development approach but there is a lack of evidence of its efficacy (World Report on Disability 2011; and more recently confirmed in the Global Disability Action ...Open AccessReport, Technical -
Parents with Intellectual Disability in a Population Context
Published 2015-02-26Parenting by people with intellectual disability continues to confront societal sensibilities. On the one hand, parents with intellectual disability engage in the valued social role of raising children; on the other, their ...Open AccessArticle