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Statement of Concern – COVID-19: Human rights, disability and ethical decision-making

Disabled Peoples Organisations Australia
Tuesday 14th April, 2020
This Statement of Concern is made by internationally recognised independent experts in the area of human rights, bioethics and disability who have come together to emphasise key human rights principles
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Q&A webinar with Scott McNaughton from the National Disability Insurance Agency

Every Australian Counts
Thursday 9th April, 2020
The forum covered a lot of issues, including PPE and support for self-managing participants. Two notable coming changes are more flexibility to use NDIS funding for devices for people who
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Best practice in disability advocacy – Course promo

DARU
Friday 3rd April, 2020
This course is a foundation in how to provide best practice individual advocacy. You will learn how a person with disability works through advocacy issues with the assistance of advocates
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Supporting people to stay infection online course

Disability Services Consulting
Monday 17th November, 2025
This early release module is part of a new online support worker training package that provides practical strategies for preventing and controlling infections. This 30 minute eLearning module is specifically
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List of issues for people with disability – COVID-19

Disability Peak Bodies
Friday 20th March, 2020
Monday 21st December, 2020
Call for immediate proactive response to Coronavirus (COVID-19) for Australians with disability. The following is a list of issues that need to be addressed urgently to ensure the wellbeing of
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Disability Support Pension (DSP) pre-claim guide

Services Australia
Friday 21st February, 2020

This guide has been developed to help you understand the rules for DSP and decide whether to make a claim. It won’t tell you if you’ll get DSP. This is

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Health‐related quality of life amongst primary caregivers of children with intellectual disability

UTS Centre for Health Economics Research and Evaluation
Journal for Intellectual Disability Research
Sunday 15th December, 2019

Children with intellectual disability (ID) frequently have significant educational, social and health care needs, resulting in caregivers often experiencing a wide range of negative effects. This paper aims to determine…

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Creating a More Inclusive World: How to Test Products for Accessibility and Usability

Ashley Ferguson
“We’ve tested for usability — now we need to look at accessibility.” If you work in user research, you’ve probably heard statements like this. Researchers often go about testing for
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Our Site: A website by and for women and girls (15+) with disability

Women With Disabilities Australia
Friday 6th March, 2020
This website was created as a platform by women and girls with disability, for women and girls with disability. 'Our Site' provides practical resources and information across five main areas
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The future of the aged care workforce

Australian Government
Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety
Thursday 27th February, 2020
The complete transcript from Friday 21 February, 2020 hearing of the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety is now available to read.
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The future of the aged care workforce

Australian Government
Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety
Friday 28th February, 2020
The Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety has published the submission on the future of the aged care workforce made by Counsel Assisting at the Adelaide Hearing 3.
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Co-designing a peer support platform for people with low vision and blindness

Anthony McCosker, Zoe Teh, Milovan Savic, Prem Prakash Jayaraman
Swinburne Social Innovation Research Institute
Wednesday 29th January, 2020
This report evaluates the design and development of a prototype Peer Support Platform that aimed to address the information, linkages and capacity (ILC) building needs of people with low vision
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