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Preparing For Life Transitions: Home to School; Class to Class; Primary to High School; High School to University, TAFE or Work

Almost always, things go better if you plan. If you start thinking of an ideal life for your son or daughter when they leave school, your dream is more likely to become a reality if you start planning when he/she is age 2 than age 17.
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The Future of Children with Significant Impairments: What Parents Fear and Want, and What They and Others May Be Able to Do About It.

For over 40 years, Wolf Wolfensberger has been involved with parents of disabled people. Drawing on this long experience, he spells out in this three-part book, the concerns that many parents have for the future of a child with a disability.
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What is "Permanency"?

Permanency is about family membership: all children belong with families and families need support to thrive. This short article examines the need for permanency for all children, while suggesting ways to support families to thrive and carry out their function of child rearing.
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Daring to Dream: Stories of parent advocacy in Queensland

Daring to Dream' is a collection of biographical stories around the theme of advocacy for people with disabilities. It tells a history of several families involvement with the organisation 'Queensland Parents for People with Disabilities' and how advocacy became the key to achieving their dreams for their family member.
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The Genetics Genie

It is clear that we need better regulation of genetic testing and counselling; better information, support and guidance for parents; and better public policy around what genetic decisions mean for prospective parents.
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Disability Discrimination... How The Act Can Work For You

A short easily read overview of the Federal Disability Discrimination Act 1992 (note: that this act is currently under review by HREOC). The article explains what is covered by the Act as well as giving some clear examples of what is meant by the term "disability discrimination".
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Sharing Our Wisdom: A Collection of Presentations by People withint the Autism Spectrum

22 people share their experiences of autism and tell a very different tale to the one universally accepted by many medical/therapeutic practitioners and the media. These are stories of hope and achievement, often against great odds.
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Families & Positive Behaviour Support: Addressing Problem Behaviour in Family Contexts

The purpose of this text is to present current theory, practice and research on positive behaviour support (PBS) within families of children and youth with developmental disabilities and problem behaviour. PBS is a collaborative, assessment based approach to address problem behaviour that is underpinned by person centred values.
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John Deere and the Bereavement Counselor

This article discusses how service technologies have the potential to impede progress rather than accelerate it. An illustrative example used is 'bereavement counselling', a service which weakened the effectiveness of family and community support in times of mourning.
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Some Reasons Why Social Role Valorization Is Important

This article discusses the importance of Social Role Valorization (SRV) theory, arguing that it speaks to universal, timeless truths of human nature. SRV raises consciousness and concern about the fate of socially devalued people, as well as providing individuals an action theory with which to take a stand.
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