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Transition services are intended to provide young people with access to relevant post secondary educational opportunities or employment/meaningful day activities.
Read MoreThis is an excellent example of 'person-centred' research, in which the authors state "Our aim is not to (list) the pros and cons of parenthood for people with learning difficulties* but to convey something of the joys and heartaches it brought for the families in our study in a way...
Read MoreIn this article, Hume outlines what state-sanctioned euthanasia, i. e. legalised euthanasia, would mean for people with disabilities, especially those with very high support needs who may not be able to speak for themselves. She backs her argument up with information from the Dutch experience.
Read MoreChauncey, a boy with very high support needs, attended a summer camp with 200 other children in which he made a number of friends and generally had an excellent time.
Read MoreIntoRec is a community based recreation organisation based in Townsville. This article clearly describes its work, the challenges the organisation has faced and the way it has/continues to meet these challenges.
Read MoreA group of exercises and strategies designed for planning a job or career for a young person with a disability. The exercises would also be quite easily adapted to suit a person with higher support needs who might need help from family and friends.
Read More"Home at Last" is the inspiring and thoughtful story of two young women with significant support needs and their move from residential settings to a home of their own. It outlines the struggles of their parents to achieve this goal.
Read MoreThis study looks at the friendships between four pairs of children, where one of each pair has no disability and the other has a disability. While there are similarities across the friendships, each relationship is unique and fulfils an individual need in each of the students involved.
Read MoreEvidence is growing that co-operative, interdependent learning positively affects the skills acquisition of students with learning challenges. This article outlines a study of three children with multiple severe disabilities placed in regular classrooms.
Read MorePre-natal screening for Down Syndrome is becoming more widely used. This article reports the findings of a three year study which was published in the British Medical Journal. In addition it canvasses (partly through extracts from correspondence) ethical and moral issues surrounding pre-natal screening.
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