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0000-0001-6417-7276
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Deakin University
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Swinburne University of Technology
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Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-02-2010
DOI: 10.3109/13668250903499090
Abstract: This study sought to elucidate the extent to which behaviour support plans for people with intellectual disability are inclusive of best practice criteria, with a comparison made prior to and following proclamation of the Disability Act (2006) in Victoria, Australia. This study used a data collection instrument developed by the researchers incorporating best practice criteria as identified in the review of literature and Victorian legislative requirements. The instrument was used to assess a s le of behaviour support plans. Best practice criteria are inadequately included in behaviour support plans with little difference between pre- and post-Act plans. The results of this study indicate that disability support staff are ill equipped to undertake the complex assessments, planning, and implementation associated with behaviour support strategies, despite the legislative framework that guides and directs this intervention.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 02-08-2019
DOI: 10.1111/CHSO.12356
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 08-03-2022
DOI: 10.1002/AJS4.154
Abstract: The aim of this paper is to inform the design of in idualised funding schemes via an examination of discourses and experiences of choice related to people with psychosocial disability. Mind Australia, in partnership with Deakin University, interviewed 22 in iduals with psychosocial disability who are recipients of in idual funding packages in three National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) trial sites across Australia. This research involved examining the policy and assumptions of choice under the NDIS, as well as the experience of undertaking choice through in idualised funding arrangements which position people with psychosocial disability as consumers in a market place of service provision. The findings demonstrate that choice is an ongoing activity and that at every stage personal, programmatic and market barriers impact in iduals’ capacity to maximise choice. The intent of government policy to provide choice to in idual funding recipients based on an optimally functioning market place with empowered self‐actualising in iduals collides with a complex reality where barriers abound at every stage of the choice making process. Enhancing choice making of people with psychosocial disability within the NDIS requires governments and services to explicitly address the personal, programmatic and market‐based barriers to choice.
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 30-10-2020
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 2004
Publisher: Swinburne University of Technology
Date: 20-05-2013
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 04-05-2010
DOI: 10.3109/17483101003793404
Abstract: A group of Australian researchers seeking an accessible online survey tool discovered to their concern that most commercially available survey tools are not actually "useable" by a significant number of assistive technology users. Comparative effectiveness analysis of 11 popular survey tools. A bespoke survey tool was subsequently created to meet all accessibility guidelines and useability criteria as determined by the wide range of assistive technology users with whom the research team was working. Many survey tools claim accessibility status but this does not reflect the actual situation. Only one survey met all compliance points however, it was limited by inflexible layout and few options for question types some surveys proved unusable by screen reader. All surveys reviewed represented a compromise between accessibility and breadth of functionality. It would appear the voices of a proportion of people living with disability are absent from the data collected by surveys, and that current accessibility guidelines, even where implemented, still fall short of assuring useable survey tools. This article describes one online solution created to successfully survey a broad population, and outlines a design approach to encompass user ersity.
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 05-04-2023
Publisher: Unpublished
Date: 2016
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 08-06-2023
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 12-2015
DOI: 10.1093/BJSW/BCV094
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 08-02-2021
Abstract: Prevention systems improve the performance of health promotion interventions. This research describes the establishment of the Australian state government initiative, Healthy Together Victoria’s (HTV) macro infrastructure for the delivery of large-scale prevention interventions. Methods: This paper reports on findings of 31 semi-structured interviews about participants’ understanding of systems thinking and their reflections of the strengths and weaknesses of the HTV prevention system. A chronic disease prevention framework informed the coding that was used to create a causal loop diagram and a core feedback loop to illustrate the results. Results: Findings highlighted that HTV created a highly connected prevention system that included a sizeable workforce, significant funding and supportive leadership. Operating guidelines, additional professional development and real-time evaluation were significant gaps, which hindered systems practice. For inexperienced systems thinkers, these limitations encouraged them to implement programs, rather than interact with the seemingly ambiguous systems methods. Conclusions: HTV was an innovative attempt to strengthen health promotion infrastructure, creating a common language and shared understanding of prevention system requirements. However, the model was inadequate for HTV to achieve population-level reductions in chronic disease as system oversight was missing, as was an intervention delivery focus. Clarity was needed to define the systems practice that HTV was seeking to achieve. Importantly, the HTV prevention system needed to be understood as complex and adaptive, and not prioritized as in idual parts.
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