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