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The author Judith Cross, a Health and Welfare Consultant in South Australia, was commissioned to prepare this report in response to concerns expressed about the future of advocacy for people with disabilities in South Australia.
Read MoreThis paper, prepared by the Disability Program Section of the Department of Health, Housing and Community Services, looks at strategies designed to widen the choice of housing available to aging persons with a disability.
Read MoreCurrent service philosophies of Social Role Valorisation, the advent of the self advocacy movement and new legislation have all contributed to the current emphasis on consumer views being sought and used in shaping service delivery to ensure it is individualised.
Read MoreLyn Farrell of Brisbane North Intellectual Disability Services, writes that "Human services all over the world have been guilty of stigmatising service users through the way in which services are provided and of contributing to the community's devaluing perception of these citizens".
Read MoreThis article was written by Christine Baxter of the Deakin University Department of Intellectual Disabilities which conducted an evaluation of the Shared Family Care program which operates in Victoria.
Read MoreThis paper analyses the way in which the notions of 'integration' and 'normalisation' have been incorporated into disability policy to the potential political and economic benefit of government, and to the possible detriment of a significant number of people who have disabilities.
Read MoreAMIDA, a community based accommodation support organisation in Victoria, prepared this article as the result of its research into the effectiveness of consumer participation.
Read MoreThe article describes an attendant care scheme based on individualised consumer control and worker participation. The author, an attendant of the Disability Attendant Study Incorporated in Victoria, maintains that attendant care is the key to de-institutionalisation and gives people with disabilities greater control over their lives and time.
Read MoreThis article looks at the ineffective ways in which information has historically been collected from people with a disability and their families.
Read MoreACROD NSW published this paper in 1992 to raise issues about the Consumer Focused Funding Approach (CFFA), touted as empowering individuals. ACROD states that empowerment of individuals is a principle in itself and does not necessarily equate with the CFFA. The paper stresses that CFFA is not brokerage.
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