The lack of sexuality education, and common myths and misconceptions about the sexuality of people with intellectual disability can lead to caregivers being reluctant ‘jailers’.
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The NDIS offers support for activities of daily living, but doesn’t count parenting in this category.
People with intellectual disabilities face additional barriers to access and participation in community, which means their voices are often missing from LGBTQ+ events.
Research shows there can be profound business benefits to hiring people living with intellectual disability.
If hospitals know a person has an intellectual disability, they can tailor communication and care to improve their treatment and health outcomes.
People with intellectual disability told us they want better transport, employment and better maintained public toilets and pedestrian crossings. But many said their opinions were rarely sought.
The Attica uprising marked a milestone in the prisoners’ rights movement. Many of the grievances aired in 1971 are still relevant to today’s incarcerated population.
A quarter of prisoners report a cognitive, intellectual or developmental disability. But the true figure could be even higher.
Even before the pandemic, disabled people reported feeling socially isolated and lonely. Their plight has only been exacerbated by responses to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Self-isolation and physical distancing only add to the problems for mothers with an intellectual disability who are at risk of failing to get the help they need.
The government has made several announcements to safeguard aged care residents and those in hospitals, but we’re yet to see the same attention paid to the one in five Australians with a disability.
Sudden changes to routine and care might worsen mental health conditions, like anxiety, in autistic people or those with other intellectual disabilities.
Three-quarters of people with an intellectual disability receive prescribed drugs.
To understand what we suspect, so far, about the way in which some people with autism may see the world, we need to examine how we use the bank of experiences we have stored in memory.
It’s important for the child and their achievement at school that there is a good parent-teacher-student partnership.
People with intellectual disability experience higher rates of mental ill health than the rest of the population, so NDIS can be doubly relevant.
Things could get worse for special education students if the Trump administration follows through on its plans to give states more leeway when it comes to how they treat special education students.
Facilitated Communication began in Australia in the 1980s to help people with disabilities communicate, but it has since been shown to replace the voice of the person with that of the facilitator.
Employable Me is being touted as the feel good TV series of 2018. But will it make any difference to how employers approach jobseekers with disabilities?
Using antipsychotics off licence is causing more problems than it solves.
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Senior Lecturer, Center for Study of Human Health, Emory University
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Academic Clinical Fellow, UCL
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Professor, Medicine and Health, UNSW Sydney
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Senior Research Fellow, Research Centre for Children and Families, University of Sydney
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Lecturer & Director of Field Education in the Social Work Program, University of Sydney
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Director, Living with Disability Research Centre, La Trobe University
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Professor, School of Social Sciences & Institute Principle Fellow, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University
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Lecturer in Education, University of Newcastle
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Lecturer in Sociology (Human Rights), University of Salford
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Senior Lecturer, Monash University
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Professor, Faculty of Education and Arts, Australian Catholic University
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Professor of Disability and Health, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer and Associate, Monash Centre for Commercial Law and Regulatory Studies, Monash University
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Professor of Psychology and Education, University of Warwick
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Professor, Public Service Research, UNSW Sydney
