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Letting in the Light - Reflections on Leadership, Ethics and Human Services
Challenging the age old role of the service system as meeting nothing more than the physical needs of a person with disability, this book speaks of the opportunities available both to communities and the establishment to enrich their lives and advocates how a valued social role can be built around...
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A New Vision
When the timing of a major setback with their daughter's service provider coincided with the opportunity to take up a new option called Self Managed Community Participation, Helen knew she had to make it happen.
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Let's Get Working
The transition from school to work can be a very difficult time for both the student and the family. Following an assessment during the last year of school, decisions have to be made around finding the right service that best suits an individual
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Taking Control
In this article Sylvana shares her son's initial steps into post school life. As with most families, the self managed approach at first seemed to onerous to manage with family, work and other commitments. It was also perceived as an option available to only a select few.
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University Days
In this paper, Miriam explains how dreaming 'big' applies not only to families - the Up the Hill Project is not just a dream, but a reality at a farsighted university in Adelaide that offers an exciting post school option.
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Inclusion or Segregation for Children with an Intellectual Impairment: What does the Research Say?
An inclusive education has been legally supported in Australia since 1992, and recommended by the united Nations since 1994. However, there has been a considerable reluctance from state and private education systems to adopt inclusion as the norm.
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All Children Belong Together - QPPD Overview of Inclusive Education 1989-2009
During the past two decades there has been a push to improve the inclusion of students with disabilities in the mainstream education system.
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Accommodating human rights: A human rights perspective on housing, and housing and support, for persons with disability
Access to adequate housing, and to adequate social support services, are fundamental human rights, but too often governments and others fail to recognise the human rights dimension in both. This position paper outlines PWD's formal policy position on these issues.
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At least the barbed wire has gone!
Often we take for granted the choices we have in life - where we want to live, with whom, the type of accommodation, in the city or, maybe the country.
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When People Care Enough To Act
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