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Professor Christine La Trobe University Cassandra Politanski, MIND Australia “Translating research into practice in an early childhood intervention service” Nicole Mahar and Dr Kate Davis, EPIC Centre RMIT University Dr Stella Koritsas, Scope Australia, and Rachel Vanstone, Carers Victoria “Guided self-determination: How people with intellectual disability have been supported to have choice and control.”, William Crisp, La Trobe University Claire Quillam, La Trobe University “Working with Indigenous Clients – it doesn’t have to be hard” Adrian Appo, OAM, Australians Capital, and Founding CEO, Ganbina 12:45pm Lunch – 1 hour 1:45pm – 3:15pm Inclusive research Workshop: “Involving people whose voices are not often heard in research and service development” Dr Sarah Pollock, Mind Australia, and Dr Erin Wilson, Deakin University Workforce “Precarious employment in the disability support workforce” Speaker TBC, RMIT University “Strategies to maximise support worker opportunities in NDIS environment” Dr Carmel Laragy and Wendy Taylor, RMIT University “Enabling the front line. Testing New ways of working: the evaluation of the High Performing Work Practices Initiative” Caroline Alcorso, NDS Models of community participation “Using different conceptualisations of community participation to support people with intellectual disability to make choices” Professor Christine Bigby, La Trobe University “Inclusion and capability – emergence through living systems” Lucy Murphy and Adam Schickerling, Annecto Interfaces between services “Hospital encounters of adults with cognitive disability – examining ways to strengthen a mainstream system” Dr Teresa Iacono, La University “Evaluation of the Baptcare LAC in the Tasmanian NDIS trial sites” Christina RMIT University and Rachel Breman, Baptcare “Working together to respond to violence and challenges and good practice across the disability and domestic violence sectors” Dr Patsie Frawley, Deakin University Housing and Supported Living “Bringing together students and people with disabilities: Utilising the University as a collaborative space for disability research” Dr Andrew Martel, University of Melbourne “Lake House: Seeing group homes differently” Lisa Hamilton, La Trobe University “Staff perceptions of organisational culture in group homes” Lincoln Humphreys, La Trobe University 3:15pm – 4:00pm Plenary and closing remarks, NDIA TBC Gordon Duff, Reflection on national developments of the Centre for Applied Disability Research Daniel Leighton, Chair of the NDS Victoria Research Advisory Group
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