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Both presentations for our July seminar were co-presented by Jennifer Clegg and Richard Lansdall-Welfare. They are UK researchers and clinicians who are very familiar with the Australian policy context. Their presentations revolve around their new publication Intellectual Disability in a Post-Neoliberal World and their recent analysis of the Disability Royal Commission. Their work brings clarit...

Trigger warning: the seminar discusses incidences where people with disabilities, workers, and in one case a worker’s unborn child, died as a result of service provision. The cases also involve serious harm to people with disabilities and workers, including sexual assault. Our June online seminar drew upon cases under work health and safety law regarding service provision to people with disabil...

Our April seminar featureed two more presentations critiquing aspects of the recommendations of the recent Disability Royal Commission. Dr Alan Hough, from Purpose at Work, critiqued the Royal Commission’s recommendations regarding the regulation of disability service provision. Laura Hogan, from the Centre for Disability Services (CDS), considers the Royal Commission’s approach to allied healt...

Critiquing the recommendations of the Disability Royal Commission Presenters: Professor Christine Bigby, Director, Living with Disability Research Centre, and Professor Teresa Iacono, La Trobe Rural Health School. This seminar focussed on two key aspects of the Royal Commission’s final report and implications for people with intellectual disabilities: group homes and inclusive school education....

Two presentations from La Trobe Master of Disability Practice graduates and new Active Support research Presenters: Steve Lowe, Master of Disability Practice graduate; Emily Daniels, Master of Disability Practice graduate and Dr Lincoln Humphreys, Research Fellow, Living With Disability Research Centre Our first online seminar for 2024 featured presentations by two of the Living with Disability...

Quality Hospital Care for People with Intellectual Disabilities Presenters: Professor Teresa Iacono, Professor of Rural and Allied Health, La Trobe Rural Health School, La Trobe University and Professor Christine Bigby, Director, Living with Disability Research Centre, La Trobe University In this seminar, we launched new Living with Disability Research Centre resources designed to improve hospi...

Our September online seminar featured two social scientists whose research focuses on the participation of people with intellectual disabilities. Urban geographer Associate Professor Ilan Wiesel from the University of Melbourne presents on the experiences of people with intellectual disabilities in community libraries. LiDs doctoral candidate Charity Sims-Jenkins presents on her PhD research, o...

Our August 2023 seminar featured two presentations about new research on the experiences of people with disabilities in organisational governance structures. Dr Alan Hough, director at Purpose at Work, presents the findings from a study that interviewed people with disabilities who were directors and were on the boards of a range of different organisations. Dr Bernadette Curryer from Side By Si...

Our July seminar features presentations from two of our colleagues from the Summer Foundation. The Summer Foundation aims to permanently stop young people with disability being forced into aged care and has a longstanding research partnership with LiDs. Dr Sharyn McDonald will present the findings of recent research that investigated factors affecting the delivery of support coordination servic...

Our June 2023 Online Seminar features Dr Lee-Ann Monk and Dr David Henderson, the co-authors of a new book, Failed Ambitions: Kew Cottages and Changing Ideas of Intellectual Disabilities. They are followed by LiDs Director Christine Bigby who authored the book’s epilogue. A gripping history, both topical and timely, this history of Melbourne’s Kew Children’s Cottages (1887-2008) is the challeng...

Our April 2023 online seminar is concerned with the lives of LGBTQA people with disabilities and the barriers to inclusion and acceptance that they face. Professor Adam Bourne and Dr Natalie Amos from the Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society (ARCHS) present the findings of their research which was commissioned by the Disability Royal Commission. Co researcher and self-advocate ...

LiDs Director Professor Christine Bigby presents a summary of findings from a recent review of the evidence about best practice in group homes, prepared for the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission as part its Own Motion Inquiry. Dr Lincoln Humphreys previews new online training resources on Skills for Active Support.

This video introduces Active Support and its four essential elements. Active Support is a way of assisting people with intellectual disabilities to engage in meaningful activities and social interactions. The four essentials are: Every moment has potential, Graded assistance to ensure success, Maximising choice and control, and Little and often. This video is from the online training resource S...

This video explains the concepts of engagement and disengagement, which are important for understanding Active Support. It shows people with intellectual disabilities engaged in meaningful activities and social interactions. For example, reading a book and watering plants. Active Support is used to assist people with intellectual disabilities to engage in meaningful activities and social intera...

Every moment has potential

Commentary Every moment has support

Little and often

Commentary Little and often

Graded assistance to ensure success

Commentary Graded assistance to ensure success

Maximising choice and control

Commentary Maximising choice and control

Enabling relationships

Supporting a group of people using Active Support

Commentary Supporting a group of people using Active Support

Supporting social interactions

Commentary Supporting social interactions

Person Centred Practices

Communication in Active Support