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  1. Social work research culture in Australian university settings
  2. A Scoping Review of Outcomes Measured and Involvement of People With Intellectual Disabilities in Active Support Research
  3. ‘Because it’s who I am’: self-determination of LGBTQ adults with intellectual disability
  4. “Old problems and old solutions”: snapshots of the Disability Royal Commission and people with intellectual disabilities
  5. IASSIDD 2024
  6. Organisational culture in ‘better’ group homes for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities in England: A qualitative study
  7. Repairing disability access in competitive environments: drivers of inclusive service provision for people with intellectual disabilities
  8. Inclusive mainstream services for people with intellectual disabilities: A relational approach
  9. Supported decision-making and the Disability Royal Commission
  10. The strength of Frontline Practice Leadership in Australian supported accommodation services: Challenges confronting service providers
  11. Enforcement of work health and safety laws in services for people with disabilities: issues for policymakers and regulators
  12. A flawed model or weak implementation? A critical review of the approach to group homes taken the Disability Royal Commission
  13. Active Support Measure: a multilevel exploratory factor analysis
  14. Supporting healthy ageing for people with intellectual disabilities in group homes: Staff experiences
  15. Whose voice is it anyway? Adults with intellectual disabilities and future planning: A scoping review of qualitative studies
  16. Reading and reviewing Australia’s Disability Commission Report and its impact on people with intellectual disabilities
  17. Disability Practice
  18. Using Focussed Ethnography to Observe and Understand the Actions and Interactions of People With Prader-Willi Syndrome When They Exercise at a Community Gym: A Protocol
  19. Siblings of adults with intellectual disabilities in Chinese societies: A scoping review
  20. Factors Associated With Experiences of Harassment or Abuse Among Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Queer, and Asexual Young People With Disability in Australia
  21. Building Strong Foundations: Listening to and Learning from People with Intellectual Disabilities and Their Families
  22. Supporting Community Participation
  23. Supporting Engagement in Everyday Life at Home and in the Community: Active Support
  24. Supporting People with Complex and Challenging Behaviour
  25. The Right to Participate in Decision Making: Supported Decision Making in Practice
  26. Thinking About Disability: Implications for Practice
  27. ‘Nothing about us without us’. Including Lived Experiences of People with Intellectual Disabilities in Policy and Service Design
  28. Introduction
  29. Support Planning with People with Disabilities
  30. Delivering decision making support to people with cognitive disability—What more has been learned from pilot programmes in Australia and internationally from 2016 to 2021?
  31. Advancing Social Work Research in Australia: Experienced Researcher Perspectives
  32. Reflecting on change and continuity for people with intellectual disabilities: epilogue for Kew Cottages
  33. Australian work health and safety enforcement regarding service provision to people with disabilities: lessons for service providers*
  34. Policy and practice issues in making an advance care directive with decision making support: A case study
  35. More‐than‐care: People with intellectual disability and emerging vulnerability during pandemic lockdown
  36. ‘Mainstreaming’ Meets ‘Choice and Control’: Unsettling Neoliberal Imaginaries of Service Choice
  37. Progressive resistance training in young people with Prader-Willi syndrome: protocol for a randomised trial (PRESTO)
  38. Factors associated with experiences of abuse among lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer, and asexual (LGBTQA+) adults with disability in Australia
  39. The health inequities of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities: Strategies for change
  40. Three modes of inclusion of people with intellectual disability in mainstream services: mainstreaming, differentiation and individualisation
  41. COVID-19 IDD: Findings from a global survey exploring family members’ and paid staff’s perceptions of the impact of COVID-19 on individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) and their caregivers.
  42. Moving from Support for Decision-making to Substitute Decision-making: Legal Frameworks and Perspectives of Supporters of Adults with Intellectual Disabilities
  43. Programs and Practices to Support Community Participation of People with Intellectual Disabilities
  44. The Types of Scholarly Publications Produced by Australian Social Work Researchers
  45. “I used to call him a non-decision-maker - I never do that anymore”: parental reflections about training to support decision-making of their adult offspring with intellectual disabilities
  46. Patterns of group home culture in organisations supporting people with intellectual disabilities: A cross-sectional study
  47. Forming and supporting circles of support for people with intellectual disabilities – a comparative case analysis
  48. Parental strategies that support adults with intellectual disabilities to explore decision preferences, constraints and consequences
  49. Social inclusion of LGBTQ and gender diverse adults with intellectual disability in disability services: A systematic review of the literature
  50. Paternalism to empowerment: all in the eye of the beholder?
  51. Barriers to physical activity and sport participation for people with intellectual disabilities from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds*
  52. How leaders in day service organisations understand service quality
  53. What is good service quality? Day service staff's perspectives about what it looks like and how it should be monitored
  54. Research End-User Perspectives about Using Social Work Research in Policy and Practice
  55. Handbook on Ageing with Disability
  56. Ageing in Place in Group Homes
  57. Understanding Ageing with Disability
  58. People with intellectual disability and the digitization of services
  59. Performance, purpose, and creation of encounter between people with and without intellectual disabilities
  60. “The Scheme Was Designed with a Very Different Idea in Mind of Who a Disabled Person Is”: The National Disability Insurance Scheme and People with Intellectual Disability
  61. Stories from the Wild West Frontier: The National Disability Insurance Scheme Experiences of People with Severe and Profound Intellectual Disability
  62. Examining the Complexities of Support for Decision-Making Practice
  63. Programs and Practices to Support Community Participation of People with Intellectual Disabilities
  64. Australian Social Work Research: An Empirical Study of Engagement and Impact
  65. COVID-19 IDD: A global survey exploring family members’ and paid staff’s perceptions of the impact of COVID-19 on individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their caregivers.
  66. Possibility and risk in encounter between people with and without intellectual disability
  67. The temporalities of supported decision-making by people with cognitive disability
  68. Creating opportunities for convivial encounters for people with intellectual disabilities: “It looks like an accident”
  69. The Production and Dissemination of Australian Social Work Scholarship: A Citation Analysis
  70. A process of decision-making support: Exploring supported decision-making practice in Canada
  71. Violence Prevention Strategies for People with Intellectual Disabilities: A Scoping Review
  72. Dedifferentiation and people with intellectual disabilities in the Australian National Disability Insurance Scheme: Bringing research, politics and policy together
  73. COVID-19 IDD: A global survey exploring the impact of COVID-19 on individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their caregivers
  74. Community participation as identity and belonging: a case study of Arts Project Australia. “I am an artist”
  75. Dimensions of group home culture as predictors of quality of life outcomes
  76. What constitutes effective support in obtaining and maintaining employment for individuals with intellectual disability? A scoping review
  77. A prospective study of hospital episodes of adults with intellectual disability
  78. The significance of research to practice during the COVID-19 pandemic
  79. Choice, Preference, and Disability
  80. Supported Decision Making
  81. Development and psychometric evaluation of the Group Home Culture Scale
  82. Predicting good Active Support for people with intellectual disabilities in supported accommodation services: Key messages for providers, consumers and regulators
  83. Quality of practice in supported accommodation services for people with intellectual disabilities: What matters at the organisational level
  84. Realising ‘will, preferences and rights’: reconciling differences on best practice support for decision-making?
  85. Factors associated with increases over time in the quality of Active Support in supported accommodation services for people with intellectual disabilities: A multi-level model
  86. Factors that predict good Active Support in services for people with intellectual disabilities: A multilevel model
  87. The Routledge Handbook of Social Work Theory
  88. Moving on from Quality Assurance: Exploring Systems that Measure both Process and Personal Outcomes in Disability Services
  89. The home environments and occupational engagement of people with intellectual disabilities in supported living
  90. Writing the script. The overt and hidden contradictions of supporters’ work in independent self-advocacy groups
  91. Analysis of Australian Research Council Grants Awarded for Social Work Projects 2008–2017
  92. Are patients with communication difficulties included in qualitative research on patient experience?
  93. Review of “Enabling Risk: Putting Positives First”, online learning resource developed specifically for disability support workers by Bigby, Douglas, and Vassallo
  94. Introduction to the Australasian Society for Intellectual Disability Position Statement on Intellectual Disability and Complex Support Needs
  95. Development of an evidence-based practice framework to guide decision making support for people with cognitive impairment due to acquired brain injury or intellectual disability
  96. Using the concept of encounter to further the social inclusion of people with intellectual disabilities: what has been learned?
  97. Supporting decision-making of adults with cognitive disabilities: The role of Law Reform Agencies – Recommendations, rationales and influence
  98. ‘More people talk to you when you have a dog’ - dogs as catalysts for social inclusion of people with intellectual disabilities
  99. The state of health services partnering with consumers: evidence from an online survey of Australian health services
  100. An exploration of communication within active support for adults with high and low support needs
  101. The National Disability Insurance Scheme in an Urban Context: Opportunities and Challenges for Australian Cities
  102. Life stories of people with intellectual disabilities in modern Australia
  103. How frontline staff manage paperwork in group homes for people with intellectual disability: Implications for practice
  104. Commentary on ASID position statement: Addressing the shortcomings of dedifferentiation: Introduction and Summary
  105. ‘I Feel Free’: the Experience of a Peer Education Program with Fijians with Spinal Cord Injury
  106. Staff perspectives on paperwork in group homes for people with intellectual disability
  107. Providing support for decision making to adults with intellectual disability: Perspectives of family members and workers in disability support services
  108. Social Work Research in the Field of Disability in Australia: A Scoping Review
  109. The self-perception of staff in group homes for people with intellectual disability
  110. Communication access on trains: a qualitative exploration of the perspectives of passengers with communication disabilities
  111. Health Education by Peers with Spinal Cord Injury: a Scoping Review
  112. Delivering decision making support to people with cognitive disability - What has been learned from pilot programs in Australia from 2010 to 2015
  113. Identifying conceptualizations and theories of change embedded in interventions to facilitate community participation for people with intellectual disability: A scoping review
  114. Implementation of active support over time in Australia
  115. What constitutes effective support in obtaining and maintaining employment for individuals with intellectual disability? A scoping review
  116. Comparing costs and outcomes of supported living with group homes in Australia
  117. A Comparative Study of Australian Social Work Research
  118. Navigating the complexity of disability support in tertiary education: perspectives of students and disability service staff
  119. Debates about dedifferentiation: twenty-first century thinking about people with intellectual disabilities as distinct members of the disability group
  120. Whose Life Story Is It? Self-Reflexive Life Story Research with People with Intellectual Disabilities
  121. Measuring practice leadership in supported accommodation services for people with intellectual disability: Comparing staff-rated and observational measures
  122. Conundrums of supported living: The experiences of people with intellectual disability
  123. Increasing day service staff capacity to facilitate positive relationships with people with severe intellectual disability: Evaluation of a new intervention using multiple baseline design
  124. Improving Quality of Life Outcomes in Supported Accommodation for People with Intellectual Disability: What Makes a Difference?
  125. Culture in Better Group Homes for People With Intellectual Disability at Severe Levels
  126. The role of practice leadership in active support: impact of practice leaders’ presence in supported accommodation services
  127. Perspectives on Social Work in Australia from the Norma Parker Addresses and Key Papers in Australian Social Work
  128. “I’ve never been a yes person”: Decision-making participation and self-conceptualization after severe traumatic brain injury
  129. A case study of an intentional friendship between a volunteer and adult with severe intellectual disability: “My life is a lot richer!”
  130. Commentary by Christine Bigby on “Reducing the Inequality of Luck: Keynote Address at the 2015 Australasian Society for Intellectual Disability National Conference” (Bonyhady, 2016)*
  131. Scientific Oral Presentations
  132. Australian social work research on ageing and aged care: A scoping review
  133. Transition to Retirement
  134. Supporting workers with disabilities: a scoping review of the role of human resource management in contemporary organisations
  135. Supporting Students with Invisible Disabilities: A Scoping Review of Postsecondary Education for Students with Mental Illness or an Acquired Brain Injury
  136. Confidence of group home staff in supporting the health needs of older residents with intellectual disability
  137. Intellectual Disability and Stigma
  138. Empowering People with Intellectual Disabilities to Challenge Stigma
  139. ‘We Were More Radical back then’: Victoria's First Self-Advocacy Organisation for People with Intellectual Disability
  140. Mainstream, Inclusionary, and Convivial Places: Locating Encounters Between People with and Without Intellectual Disabilities
  141. Social Work Research in the Child Protection Field in Australia
  142. Self-Advocacy as a Means to Positive Identities for People with Intellectual Disability: ‘We Just Help Them, Be Them Really’
  143. Becoming a decision-making supporter for someone with acquired cognitive disability following traumatic brain injury
  144. Preparing Manuscripts that Report Qualitative Research: Avoiding Common Pitfalls and Illegitimate Questions
  145. A case study about the supported participation of older men with lifelong disability at Australian community-based Men's Sheds
  146. Observing practice leadership in intellectual and developmental disability services
  147. Critical Realism in Social Work Research: Examining Participation of People with Intellectual Disability
  148. Paperwork in group homes for people with intellectual disability
  149. Reflections on being a first generation self-advocate: Belonging, social connections, and doing things that matter
  150. ‘The biggest thing is trying to live for two people’: Spousal experiences of supporting decision-making participation for partners with TBI
  151. “I won't be around forever”: Understanding the decision-making experiences of adults with severe TBI and their parents
  152. Movement on Shifting Sands: Deinstitutionalisation and People with Intellectual Disability in Australia, 1974–2014
  153. Mediating Community Participation: Practice of Support Workers in Initiating, Facilitating or Disrupting Encounters between People with and without Intellectual Disability
  154. Factors that Underpin the Delivery of Effective Decision-making Support for People with Cognitive Disability
  155. Transition to retirement and participation in mainstream community groups using active mentoring: a feasibility and outcomes evaluation with a matched comparison group
  156. “She's been involved in everything as far as I can see”: Supporting the active participation of people with intellectual disability in community groups
  157. A systematic review of hospital experiences of people with intellectual disability
  158. Identifying Good Group Homes: Qualitative Indicators Using a Quality of Life Framework
  159. ‘We Just Call Them People’: Positive Regard as a Dimension of Culture in Group Homes for People with Severe Intellectual Disability
  160. Sibling Roles in the Lives of Older Group Home Residents with Intellectual Disability: Working with Staff to Safeguard Wellbeing
  161. What are Victoria's Disability Service Standards Really Measuring?
  162. Is the National Disability Insurance Scheme Taking Account of People with Intellectual Disabilities?
  163. Health issues of older people with intellectual disability in group homes
  164. Guide to Visiting and Good Group Homes, by Christine Bigby and Emma Bould
  165. Cycles of Adaptive Strategies Over the Life Course
  166. An Effective Program Design to Support Older Workers With Intellectual Disability to Participate Individually in Community Groups
  167. “I'm in their shoes”: Experiences of peer educators in sexuality and relationship education
  168. Supported Decision Making: Understanding How its Conceptual Link to Legal Capacity is Influencing the Development of Practice
  169. Editorial
  170. Being Recognised and Becoming Known: Encounters between People with and without Intellectual Disability in the Public Realm
  171. Conceptualizing Inclusive Research with People with Intellectual Disability
  172. A Collaborative Group Method of Inclusive Research
  173. Mentors' experiences of using the Active Mentoring model to support older adults with intellectual disability to participate in community groups
  174. Residential aged care for people with intellectual disability: A matter of perspective
  175. Ethical challenges in researching in group homes for people with severe learning difficulties: shifting the balance of power
  176. Taking each day as it comes: staff experiences of supporting people with Down syndrome and Alzheimer's disease in group homes
  177. Responsiveness to self-report questions about loneliness: a comparison of mainstream and intellectual disability-specific instruments
  178. A National Disability Insurance Scheme—Challenges for Social Work
  179. ‘I hope he dies before me’: unravelling the debates about ageing and people with intellectual disability
  180. Whose decision is it anyway? How clinicians support decision-making participation after acquired brain injury
  181. ‘Do You Think I’m Stupid?’: Urban Encounters between People with and without Intellectual Disability
  182. Implementation of active support in Victoria, Australia: An exploratory study
  183. Maintaining Quality and Withstanding Challenges
  184. Uncovering Dimensions of Culture in Underperforming Group Homes for People with Severe Intellectual Disability
  185. A model of processes that underpin positive relationships for adults with severe intellectual disability
  186. The Toronto declaration on bridging knowledge, policy and practice in aging and disability
  187. Advancing a research agenda for bridging ageing and disability
  188. The Toronto declaration on bridging knowledge, policy and practice in aging and disability
  189. Social inclusion and people with intellectual disability and challenging behaviour: A systematic review
  190. Norma Parker Addresses
  191. Remembering Jim Mansell
  192. Competencies of front-line managers in supported accommodation: Issues for practice and future research
  193. Experiences of supporting people with Down syndrome and Alzheimer's disease in aged care and family environments
  194. Social Interaction with Adults with Severe Intellectual Disability: Having Fun and Hanging Out
  195. The Challenges and Benefits of Using Participant Observation to Understand the Social Interaction of Adults with Intellectual Disabilities
  196. EDITORIAL
  197. Encounter as a dimension of social inclusion for people with intellectual disability: Beyond and between community presence and participation
  198. Disconnected expectations: Staff, family, and supported employee perspectives about retirement
  199. The Development and Utility of a Program Theory: Lessons from an Evaluation of a Reputed Exemplary Residential Support Service for Adults with Intellectual Disability and Severe Challenging Behaviour in Victoria, Australia
  200. Book Review: Group Homes for People with Intellectual Disabilities by Tim Clement and Christine Bigby. London: Jessica Kingsley, 2010. ISBN 978-1-84310-6456
  201. Editorial Note
  202. Inclusion in political and public life: The experiences of people with intellectual disability on government disability advisory bodies in Australia
  203. Rankings, Ratings, and Reviews
  204. Social Work Practice and Intellectual Disability, Christine Bigby and Patsie Frawley, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2010, pp. xv + 238, ISBN 978-0-230-52166-7 (pbk),  17.99
  205. Group Homes for People with Intellectual Disabilities: Encouraging Inclusion and Participation, Tim Clement and Christine Bigby, London, Jessica Kingsley, 2010, pp. 228, ISBN 9781 8431 0645 6 (pbk),  25.00
  206. The pearl in the middle: A case study of social interactions in an individual with a severe intellectual disability
  207. The potential for active mentoring to support the transition into retirement for older adults with a lifelong disability
  208. Hospital experiences of older people with intellectual disability: Responses of group home staff and family members
  209. Planning and decision making about the future care of older group home residents and transition to residential aged care
  210. Reflections on doing inclusive research in the “Making Life Good in the Community” study
  211. Group homes for people with intellectual disabilities: encouraging inclusion and participation
  212. Written out of History: Invisible Women in Intellectual Disability Social Work
  213. Social Work and Disability: An Uneasy Relationship
  214. A Five-Country Comparative Review of Accommodation Support Policies for Older People With Intellectual Disability
  215. Aging . . . A Continuing Challenge
  216. Social Work Practice and Intellectual Disability
  217. Building Social Work Scholarship
  218. Diversity and Ageing
  219. “I Want to See the Queen”: Experiences of Service Use by Ageing People with an Intellectual Disability
  220. Breaking Out of a Distinct Social Space: Reflections on Supporting Community Participation for People with Severe and Profound Intellectual Disability
  221. ‘It's pretty hard with our ones, they can't talk, the more able bodied can participate’: staff attitudes about the applicability of disability policies to people with severe and profound intellectual disabilities
  222. Position statement on housing and support for people with severe or profound intellectual disability
  223. Maximizing community inclusion through mainstream communication services for adults with severe disabilities
  224. Corrigendum
  225. The Quality and Integrity of Australian Social Work
  226. Known well by no‐one: Trends in the informal social networks of middle‐aged and older people with intellectual disability five years after moving to the community
  227. A survey of people with intellectual disabilities living in residential aged care facilities in Victoria
  228. Research: Issues of active ageing: Perceptions of older people with lifelong intellectual disability
  229. Beset by obstacles: A review of Australian policy development to support ageing in place for people with intellectual disability
  230. Social Roles and Informal Support Networks in Mid Life and Beyond
  231. Planning and Support for People with Intellectual Disabilities
  232. Reflecting on 60 Years ofAustralian Social Work
  233. Moving towards Midlife Care as Negotiated Family Business: Accounts of people with intellectual disabilities and their families “Just getting along with their lives together”
  234. Why are conferences “Sometimes about us, without us”?
  235. Tensions between institutional closure and deinstitutionalisation: what can be learned from Victoria’s institutional redevelopment?
  236. Shifting Models of Welfare: Issues in Relocation from an Institution and the Organization of Community Living
  237. When is a house a home?
  238. An International Call for Papers
  239. Positioning the Journal for the Next Decade
  240. A Tribute to Professor Norman Smith
  241. Comparative Program Options for Aging People with Intellectual Disabilities
  242. Book Reviews
  243. Another minority group: use of aged care day programs and community leisure services by older people with lifelong disability
  244. Christine Bigby, Ageing with a Lifelong Disability: A Guide to Practice, Programme and Policy Issues for Human Services Professionals, Jessica Kingsley, London, 2004, 320 pp., pbk £19.95, ISBN 1 84310 0770.
  245. Ageing with a lifelong disability: A guide to practice, program and policy issues for human services professionals. Christine Bigby. Jessica Kingsley Publishers, London, 2004. Pages: 319
  246. Evaluation of the Independent Review of a Major Life Decision Affecting People Who Have an Intellectual Disability
  247. Disability, Citizenship and Community Care. A Case for Welfare rights
  248. Comparison of specialist and mainstream programs for older carers of adults with intellectual disability: Considerations for service development
  249. But why are these questions being asked?: a commentary on Emerson (2004)
  250. Retirement or just a change of pace: an Australian national survey of disability day services used by older people with disabilities
  251. Evaluation of the Independent Review of a Major Life Decision Affecting People Who Have an Intellectual Disability
  252. Book Review
  253. Facilitating Transition
  254. Ageing people with a lifelong disability: challenges for the aged care and disability sectors
  255. Shifts in the model of service delivery in intellectual disability in Victoria
  256. Parental Substitutes
  257. Shifting responsibilities: The patterns of formal service use by older people with intellectual disability in Victoria
  258. When Parents Relinquish Care: Informal Support Networks of Older People with Intellectual Disability
  259. Later life for adults with intellectual disability: A time of opportunity and vulnerability
  260. Transferring responsibility: The nature and effectiveness of parental planning for the future of adults with intellectual disability who remain at home until mid-life
  261. Is there a hidden group of older people with intellectual disability and from whom are they hidden? Lessons from a recent case-finding study
  262. A demographic analysis of older people with intellectual disability registered with Community Services Victoria
  263. Access and linkage: Two critical issues for older people with an intellectual disability in utilising day activity and leisure services
  264. ‘I Hope He Dies Before Me’
  265. Issues in Researching the Ageing of People with Intellectual Disability