This document outlines the program for a conference on intellectual and developmental disabilities. It includes keynote speakers, breakout sessions, and topics like the NDIS, health perspectives, families and children, access to justice, employment, and self-advocacy. The conference runs from November 11-13, 2015 with sessions, presentations, workshops, and social events each day.

1. Program

2. 8.00am Registration
9.00am Opening Ceremony
9.30am – 10.30am
Keynote 1: Bruce Bonyhady OAM
Chairman, National Disability Insurance Agency
NDIS: Progress, Participation and Potential
Plenary
Wednesday 11th November 2015
10.30am-11.00am Morning Tea – Promenade foyer
11.00am – 12.30pm Session one
Plenary Room 1 Room 2 Room 3 Room 4 Room 5
National Disability
Insurance Scheme
Health Perspectives from
Self advocates
Plain English papers Families and Children Access to Justice –
Round Table
1.
Michelle Moss
In the driver's seat-
road to the NDIS and
living a good life
4.
Jessica Smith
Attitudes and
experience of doctors
care of people with an
intellectual disability
7.
Rebecca Hughes
Holding my vision of “a
real life in the real world”
10.
Bruce Bonyhady OAM
Plain English keynote
- NDIS: Progress,
participation, potential
12.
Chris Oliver
Challenging behaviour,
quality of life and
parental well-being in
rare genetic syndromes
15.
Patrick McGee
Access to justice for
people with intellectual
disabilities- making it
real
2.
Pamela Toster
Disability reform in
Western Australia – the
WA NDIS My Way trial
5.
Jane Tracy
GP e-learning:
assessment of behaviour
change in people with
intellectual disability
8.
Caroline Cummins
Implementing person-
centred active
support in supported
accommodation
11.
Susan Arthur
Creating positive change
for parents with an
intellectual disability-
Workshop
13.
Dawn Adams
Service use in children
with intellectual
disabilities with and
without challenging
behaviour
6.00pm-7.30pm
3.
Gillian Robertson
The challenge of
enabling choice-
overcoming perceptions
9.
Sarah Pepper
Addressing the
“elephant in the room” A
contemporary approach
to sexuality
14.
Jane Goodwin
Family-centred services
and psychological
growth in parents
of children with
developmental disorders
12.30pm - 1.30pm LUNCH - POSTER SESSION
Promenade foyer
11.00 – 12.25pm
Keynote 2: Aine Healy and Michael Sullivan
CEO and Chairman, New South Wales Council for Intellectual Disabilities
Speaking up about the BIG issues!
Plenary
Session Two
Plenary Room 1 Room 2 Room 3 Room 4 Room 5
Effective Services - people
with complex needs
Mental Health Effective Services –
supported accommodation
Plain English papers –
inclusive education
Home and Family Effective Services – post
school
16.
Leanne Dowse
Framing complex
support needs in
theory, policy
and practice
19.
Angela Dew
Representation of
people with intellectual
disabilities in Australian
mental health policy
22.
Claire Quilliam
An evil necessity:
Frontline staffs'
perspective(s) on group
home paperwork
25.
Roly Weatherall
Participatory music
education: From the
student's perspective
28.
Kylie Gray
Behaviour and emotional
problems in children
with developmental
disabilities: Australian
population survey
31.
Michelle L. Bonati
Promoting access to
university curriculum
for individuals with
intellectual disabilities
through service-learning
18
Angela Dew
Establishing a
knowledge translation
planinacomplexsupport
needs environment
20.
Stephen Edwards
Do negative life events
affect adults with
intellectual disability?
23.
Vicki Godkin
Every moment has
potential
26.
Els Tielemans
Creating an accessible
learning environment:
student experience
29.
Kate Sofronoff
Translating data into
family differences
following a parenting
program
32.
Ted Evans
Community access
service evaluation
approaches co-produced
withpeople with
intellectual disabilities
17.
Susan Collings
Effective support
planning for
people with complex
support needs
21.
Stephen Edwards
Ask adults with
severe and profound
intellectual disability
about anxiety and
depression
24.
Christine Bigby
Culture in higher
performing group homes
for people with severe
intellectual disabilities
27.
Kim Yearwood
From paddock to plate-
developing work skills
30.
Julie Hodges
Characteristics associated
with coercive parenting
of children with
developmental disability
33.
Ted Evans
Community access
services co-produced
together with people
with intellectual and
developmental disabilities
Afternoon Tea – Promenade foyer2.30pm - 4.00pm
Session three4.30pm – 5.30pm
Plenary Room 1 Room 2 Room 3 Room 4 Room 5
Effective Services –
supporter workers
Effective Services Publishing and
measuring outcomes
Plain English papers –
inclusive research
Leisure and Recreation Effective Services
34.
Davina Taylor
Two realities: The
experiences of
disability support
workers in supported
accommodation
36.
Sheridan Forster
Stop asking, hands
down, shoosh: Social
restraint in the name of
appropriateness?
38.
Michael Arthur-Kelly
& Christine Bigby
Writing for Publication in
RAPIDD and JIDD
40.
Patricia O'Brien
Experiences of people
with intellectual
disability of rights:
An inclusive research
approach
41.
Janet Parker
All abilities netball...a
story of participation,
fitness and fun
43.
Paul Matley
Circles of Support: A
practical model for
supporting a person with
a disability
35.
Virginia Howie
Current knowledge of
intellectual disability
nursing in Australia
37.
Jenny Bourke
Validation of intellectual
disability from hospital
morbidity records
39.
Stella Koritsas
Measuring whole of life
outcomes- the
Outcome and Impacts
Scale (Revised)
42.
Stephanie Greenland
Examining inclusive
practices in South
Australian sport and
recreation clubs
5.30pm – 6.00pm ASID Annual General Meeting
Plenary
Cocktail Party
ASID’s 50th Birthday Celebration
Promenade foyer
2.30pm – 4.00pm
6.
Teresa Iacono
Hospital encounters
of adults with cognitive
disability: Report of a
pilot study

3. 67.
Joanne Watson
Characterising decision-
makingsupportforpeople
with severe to profound
intellectual disability
71.
Belinda Jarman
School experiences,
ASD characteristics, and
mental health in females
with asperger syndrome
75.
Karen Major
Kane’s story (from the
perspectives of his
two service providers
working together)
79.
Colin Hiscoe
Why self advocacy
matters- workshop
82.
Christina David
Can individualised
funding deliver on its
human rights promise?
86.
Ove Mallander
Self-advocacy- the
characteristics and
organization in Sweden
68.
Carolyn Stobbs
Making the right to
decide real
72.
Anne Speekman
Mothers / carers and
educational settings-
What is true partnership?
76.
Vivienne Riches
Person centred clinical
risk assessment
83.
Darren O’Donovan
Rules, risk and rights:
accessing justice under
the national disability
insurance scheme
87.
Sian Anderson
Scaffolding the
development of positive
identity: support workers
in self-advocacy groups
5.30pm – 6.00pm Poster session
6.00pm until late Restaurant night
66.
Anna Arstein-
Kerslake
Human right to legal
capacity: Respecting
autonomy and
providing support
70.
Anne Wilson
Skilling students to
actively participate in
program support group
meetings
74.
Mandy Donley
The chemical restraint
reduction strategy in
Victorian disability
services
78.
Prof. Chris Oliver
Plain English keynote
- The challenge of
difference
81.
Raelene West
Monitoring the
Convention: ‘Apparently
we have rights to health!’
85.
Therése Mineur
Self-advocacy in Sweden
- impact on identity and
social relations
9.00am - 9.15am Housekeeping
9.15am – 10.15am
Keynote 3: Professor Chris Oliver
Professor of Neurodevelopmental Disorders, Cerebra Centre for Neurodevelopmental Disorders, University of Birmingham,
United Kingdom
The challenge of difference
Plenary
10.15am – 10.45am Morning Tea – Exhibition Hall
Thursday 12th November 2015
10.45am – 12.45pm Session four
Plenary Room 1 Room 2 Room 3 Room 4 Room 5
Support for Decision
Making 1
Health and Aging Effective Service – people
with complex needs
Inclusive Theatre Freedom from Abuse Family Perspectives
44.
Deborah Knowles
One agencies
experience in
supporting the model
48.
Jocelyn Craig
The intrinsic value of
identity: Maintaining
meaning as an
older person
52.
Julian Trollor
Rethinking psychotropic
prescribing practices
in people with
intellectual disability
56.
Tamara Searle
Play for real- Back to
Back theatre workshop
57.
Leanne Dowse
Understanding gendered
disability violence at the
intersections of
criminalisation and
victimisation
61.
Kim Fairbairn-Baker
More the same than
different
45.
Michael Lech
Supported decision
making: What being
a decision maker has
meant to me
49.
Roger Stancliffe
Dying to talk
project: Exploring
understandings about
dying and death
53.
Therese Cumming
Positive behaviour
supports:Using technology
to support adults with
intellectual disabilities
58.
Patsie Frawley
Including women with
an intellectual disability
in violence and abuse
prevention programs
62.
Kathy Ellem
Choosing the harder
road: Family member
accounts of planning the
good life
50.
Rahila Ummer
Christian
Access and appro-
priateness of dental
services for people with
intellectual disabilities
54.
Alan Robinson
Intellectual disability
mental health- a
major unmet services
need/requiring
extraordinary action
59.
Sally Robinson
Safe at school? safety
and harm of students
with cognitive disability
63.
Sue Dymond
A mind shift to create a
solution
12.45pm - 1.45pm LUNCH - POSTER SESSION
Exhibition Hall
1.45pm – 2.00pm ASID Awards
Plenary
Keynote 4: Dr Jennifer Clegg
Honorary Associate Professor, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom
Imagining six possible things before breakfast
Plenary
3.00-3.30pm Afternoon Tea – Promenade foyer
3.30-5.30pm Session five
Plenary Room 1 Room 2 Room 3 Room 4 Room 5
Support for Decision
Making 2
Education Effective Services – people
with complex needs
Plain English papers Access and Equity Participation – self
advocacy
65.
Brenda Burgen
Some successes and
challenges of volunteers
supporting socially
isolated people with
decision-making
69.
Lorraine Gaunt
Numeracy and adults
with intellectual
disabilities
73.
Lynne Webber
The success of a restraint
reduction strategy
to reduce restrictive
interventions
77.
Dr Jennifer Clegg
Plain English keynote
- Imagining six possible
things before breakfast
80.
Paul Ramcharan
Monitoring the CRPD- a
view from people with
disability
84.
Magnus Tideman
Policy and practice for
people with intellectual
disability in Sweden
46.
Mary Whiteside
Supporting people
with intellectual
disabilities in decision
making – processes and
dilemmas
47.
Michelle Browning
The practice of
supported decision
making in Canada
51.
Astra King
Looking for ADHD in
Fragile X Syndrome:
The parts that affect
functioning
55.
Teresa Hinton
Uncounted costs: Choice
and control for people
withbehavioursofconcern
60.
John Chesterman
Violence and abuse in
disability residential
services
64.
Anthony Kolmus
Families and service
providers working
together
2.00- 3.00pm

4. 12.45pm – 1.45pm Morning Tea – Promenade foyer
1.45pm – 2.25pm
Invited Guest Speaker: Prof Magnus Tideman
Professor of Disability Studies, Halmstad University, Sweden
The current situation for people with intellectual disability in Sweden – a role model or a warning example?
Main Plenary
90.
Sally Robinson
Space, place, relationships:
Methods to privilege young
people’s participation
94.
Amanda Chan
Exploring the relationship
between self-determination
and work-readiness in youth
with intellectual disability
98.
Meaghan Edwards
Plain English keynote-
Regulating the quality Health
and Social Care Services in
England: What might be
learned f or Australia
102.
David Behan
Plain English keynote-
Regulating the quality Health
and Social Care Services in
England: What might be
learned f or Australia
106.
Samuel Arnold
Revising the FACS NSW
Behaviour Support Policy and
Practice Manual
91.
Susan Collings
Adult gatekeepers in research
with children of mothers with
intellectual disability
95.
Rob Hardy
Outing Disability: Inclusion
for lesbian, gay, bisexual,
transgender, intersex and
queer people.
99.
Angela Dew
Evaluating innovative
rural approaches to improve
transition to school outcomes
103.
Magnus Tideman
Plain English invited speaker
- The current situation for
people with intellectual
disability in Sweden – a role
model or a warning example?
107.
Amanda Smith
Take away my freedom but
give me my rights
Session 7
Plenary Room 1 Room 2 Room 3
Workshop Effective Services Effective Services Interactive workshop Freedom from Abuse
108.
Warren Francois
“Speaking Up”: Perspective of a
co-facilitator with an intellectual
disability
109.
Aine Healy and
Michael Sullivan
What works for us!
113.
Allyson Thomson
Parental attitudes to
employment for adults with
Angelman syndrome and
Prader-Willi syndrome
116.
Wendy Keay-Bright
An interactive art experience
to improve self-confidence
and fitness
111.
Tania De Bortoli
Maximising communication
participation for children who
have multiple and severe
disabilities
114.
Carmel Laragy
Success factors for people
with intellectual disability
accessing housing in the
community
118.
Brent Hayward
Prophylactic camera
surveillance in disability
residential services: the state
of the evidence
112.
Kaidee Dick
The accidental sexuality
educator: Using the sex, safe
and fun resource
115.
Keith McVilly
People with intellectual
disability achieving goals
through systematic, data
based support
119.
Christine Wilson
The healthy relationships
abuse and violence prevention
program: Quantitative
analysis of effectiveness
2.00pm – 4.00pm
Room 4
117.
Goetz Ottmann
“I walk from trouble”:
Exploring safeguards with
adults with intellectual
disabilities
4.00pm – 4.30pm Closing Ceremony
• Discounted annual conferences
• Local seminars, workshops and social gatherings
• Opportunities to share knowledge, network and
work together to make change
• Quarterly issues of the Journal of Intellectual
and Development Disability (JIDD) and Research
and Practice in Intellectual and Developmental
Disabilities (RAPIDD).
Organisational Individual
Memberships available
What is ASID?
The Australasian Society for Intellectual Disability (ASID) is a not-for-profit organisation that brings together research, policy and practice
to improve the lives of people with a disability. As an independent authority on intellectual disability issues, ASID aims to develop strategic
partnerships and bring together knowledge from across Australasia.
Become an ASID member today!
110.
Stephen Edwards
Responses to emotional faces
in adults with severe and
profound intellectual disability
9.00am - 9.15am
Minister Foley MP
Minister for Housing, Disability and Ageing, Minister for Mental Health, Minister for Equality, Minister for Creative Industries.
Plenary
9.15am – 10.15am
Keynote 5: David Behan
Chief Executive Officer, Care Quality Commission, United Kingdom
Regulating the quality Health and Social Care Services in England: What might be learned for Australia.
Plenary
10.15am – 10.45am Morning Tea – Promenade foyer
Friday 13th November 2015
10.45am - 12.45pm Sessions Six
Plenary Room 1 Room 2 Room 3 Room 4
Participation – inclusive research Employment Home and Family Plain English papers Access to Justice
88.
Patsie Frawley
Having a real say in
research: a colla-borative
community based approach
92.
Jayne Barrett
Career creation, making it
real: The community living
projects micro-enterprise
project
96.
Susan Collings
Formal services in the lives
of children of mothers with
intellectual disability
100.
Danny Thomas
People’s organisations
104.
Astrid Birgden
Offenders with intellectual
disability: A framework
for managing risk and
meeting needs
93.
Peter Smith
They listen, but they don’t
hear me!
97.
Jenny O’Neill
The experiences of
mothers of young adolescents
with intellectual disability
during puberty
101.
Anna Eglitzky
A best practice framework
for accessible written
information
105.
Rachel Daysh
Ten years on: Learnings from
the implementation of a
compulsory care framework
89.
Paul Milner
“I am here:” Research partners
making it real together

5. Session Times:
Wednesday 11th November – 12.30pm -1.30pm
Thursday 12th November – 12.45pm - 1.45pm 5.30pm - 6.00pm
Poster Presentations
120
Merissa Van Der Linden
Understanding internet access for people with disability in shared supported accommodation
121
David Glazebrook
Social Impact, a training program so people can form friendships and relationships
122
Kathy Wilton
Increasing participation: thinking differently about how learning occurs at conferences
123 Brent Hayward
An evaluation of behaviour support training units against elements of PBS training
124 Deanne Ray
An innovative program – ‘focus’ opens up a work shed with a difference
125 Samantha Hardy
Promoting the health values of clients in the shared homes program
126 Ted Evans
Our lives, our passion: an exploration of leisure and the arts
127 Bridget Maguire
A reason to smile: an oral hygiene resource for disability residential services
128 Barbara Solarsh
Communication research to practice- making it happen at V/Line
129 Barbara Solarsh
Communicating in the community- developments in communication access
130 Kate Pensa
Multidisciplinary approaches to supporting complex comorbidity in offenders with Intellectual Disability
131
132 Lucy Murphy
Design, technology and support- creating a home and place in the community
133 Caitlin Powell-Jones
My space, your space; our place
Martin Gomes
Organisational change management and staff development in disability services
134 Vicki Hayes
Conversations that create a future-self-directing a move to community living
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