After more than 700 submissions and evidence from 79 witnesses at three public hearings, the senate inquiry into ADHD diagnosis and treatment barriers has delivered its findings.
One treatment option for children’s trauma is eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing, or EMDR. Here’s how it works and what the research says about its effectiveness.
Currently, when someone turns 65 they are not eligible to apply for NDIS support, even if they had disability before then. We asked experts if that should change.
Over 20% of people diagnosed with brain cancer survive longer than five years. But the NDIS may not recognise their need for support to live, work, learn and play.
Currently, when a visa applicant or their child has a health condition or disability likely to incur ‘a significant cost to the Australian community’ they can be deported.
People with intellectual disability told us they often felt cut out of their own health appointments, as healthcare practitioners spoke to their support person or family instead of to them.
The disability royal commission was a once-in-a-lifetime chance to investigate the realities of life for disabled Australians. But it missed three critical areas in need or urgent reform.
A limited number of specialists are able to diagnose and treat ADHD, making it difficult to even start the process of getting diagnosed. Should GPs play a greater role?
Focusing on specialist schools for students with disability misunderstands the royal commission report’s point and misses its major implications for all schools.
In this podcast, Greens Senator and disability advocate Jordon Steele-John, who campaigned for the Royal Commission, joins The Conversation to give us his take on the report.
The government taskforce responding to the disability royal commission recommendations needs to learn from the stories shared and also how they were communicated.
One recommendation from the Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability, could be the game changer that will impact everything – a disability rights act.
The disability royal commission recommended providers offer redress to people who experience harm while in their care. But reparations for past harms were not addressed.
Education segregation could continue for Australia’s young people for at least another generation – and possibly longer – in light of the disability royal commission recommendations.
The disability royal commission’s final report makes 222 recommendations, including ensuring people with disability are considered in national housing and homelessness plans.
The new Quarterly Essay weaves personal history and detailed policy analysis, examining the unintended consequences of the NDIS, and how we can best realise the scheme’s original intent.
Associate Professor, Rehabilitation, Ageing and Independent Living Research Centre and Occupational Therapy Department, School of Primary and Allied Healthcare, Monash University