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Specialist Child and Family Services Report Series. Statewide Forum Follow Up: Parent Involvement, The Key to the Future

This booklet contains issues raised and actions proposed as a result of a statewide forum held in Victoria and attended by professionals and parents of children who have disabilities.

Early Intervention: A Guide for Parents and Carers

This small booklet is a guide for parents and carers and describes early intervention practices and procedures in Victoria for children with disabilities.

Factors associated with integrated educational placement

This paper describes a study on the integration of students with severe disabilities into local schools in an effort to determine what common factors were involved in successful situations of inclusion. Keywords: Education, School age

Accommodation and Inclusive Communities: Services Making Changes

This paper describes Access Incorporated (Access), an accommodation support service in Queensland, which is manage by an independent management committee. Access offers an individualised outreach service, the aim of which is to support people to gain and strengthen their valuable roles in society. Keyword: Accommodation

I've counted Jon: Transformational experiences of teachers educating students with disabilities

This article describes the results of a study looking at the experiences of general education teachers who have a student with severe disabilities in their class.

Building Communities from the Inside Out: A path toward mobilising a community's assets

A most practical guide. The use of the term 'community' has often been criticised in the disability field.

The Working Lives of People with Disabilities

In this book thirteen people with varying disabilities talk honestly about themselves and their experience in the workplace. Their stories highlight the fact that disability need not be a barrier to employment. Keyword: Employment

Supporting Adults with Severe Disabilities in the Community: Selected Issues in Residential Services

The authors write, "In the past few years, it has become increasingly clear that all people with developmental disabilities. . . can be supported in the community.

Supporting Families with a Child with a Disability: An international outlook

This book is concerned with three entwined issues - disability, culture and family - and the ways in which they play themselves out in the lives of families.

Annie's Coming Out

Anne McDonald was born in Victoria in 1961 and confined to an institution because of her physical disabilities. Anne is hardly alive when an assistant to the hospital discovers her.