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