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  1. Frontline Practice Leadership for quality and safe services for people with intellectual disabilities – “ensuring work as expected” becomes “work as done”
  2. More of the Same: A Document Analysis of the Government's Response to Ageing with Intellectual Disabilities in Hong Kong
  3. Predictors of the Quality of Active Support and Levels of Engagement for People With Intellectual Disabilities: A Multilevel Path Analysis
  4. Predictors of Job Satisfaction of Frontline Staff Working in Supported Accommodation Services for People With Intellectual Disabilities
  5. Virtual Special Issue of JIDD and RAPIDD for ASID Conference
  6. Adults With Intellectual Disability Moving out of the Family Home Using the National Disability Insurance Scheme: Family Members' Planning Experiences
  7. Federal Court cases about harm to people with intellectual disabilities in service provision: lessons for safe support
  8. The right to communicate and be heard. ASID’s position on Facilitated Communication
  9. Non-pharmacological intervention experiences and expressed needs of people with young onset dementia: a scoping review
  10. The Transition From Family Home to Alternative Living Arrangements: Experiences of Adults With Intellectual Disabilities and Their Family Members
  11. Deinstitutionalisation and Later Developments in the Lives of Persons with Intellectual Disabilities
  12. Leading for Quality and Safety
  13. Progressing Beyond Institutional Closure to a Good Life for People with Intellectual Disabilities: Reflecting on the Nordic Countries
  14. Social work research culture in Australian university settings
  15. A Scoping Review of Outcomes Measured and Involvement of People With Intellectual Disabilities in Active Support Research
  16. ‘Because it’s who I am’: self-determination of LGBTQ adults with intellectual disability
  17. “Old problems and old solutions”: snapshots of the Disability Royal Commission and people with intellectual disabilities
  18. IASSIDD 2024
  19. Organisational culture in ‘better’ group homes for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities in England: A qualitative study
  20. Repairing disability access in competitive environments: drivers of inclusive service provision for people with intellectual disabilities
  21. Inclusive mainstream services for people with intellectual disabilities: A relational approach
  22. Supported decision-making and the Disability Royal Commission
  23. The strength of Frontline Practice Leadership in Australian supported accommodation services: Challenges confronting service providers
  24. Enforcement of work health and safety laws in services for people with disabilities: issues for policymakers and regulators
  25. A flawed model or weak implementation? A critical review of the approach to group homes taken the Disability Royal Commission
  26. Active Support Measure: a multilevel exploratory factor analysis
  27. Supporting healthy ageing for people with intellectual disabilities in group homes: Staff experiences
  28. Whose voice is it anyway? Adults with intellectual disabilities and future planning: A scoping review of qualitative studies
  29. Reading and reviewing Australia’s Disability Commission Report and its impact on people with intellectual disabilities
  30. Disability Practice
  31. Using Focussed Ethnography to Observe and Understand the Actions and Interactions of People With Prader-Willi Syndrome When They Exercise at a Community Gym: A Protocol
  32. Siblings of adults with intellectual disabilities in Chinese societies: A scoping review
  33. Factors Associated With Experiences of Harassment or Abuse Among Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Queer, and Asexual Young People With Disability in Australia
  34. Building Strong Foundations: Listening to and Learning from People with Intellectual Disabilities and Their Families
  35. Supporting Community Participation
  36. Supporting Engagement in Everyday Life at Home and in the Community: Active Support
  37. Supporting People with Complex and Challenging Behaviour
  38. The Right to Participate in Decision Making: Supported Decision Making in Practice
  39. Thinking About Disability: Implications for Practice
  40. ‘Nothing about us without us’. Including Lived Experiences of People with Intellectual Disabilities in Policy and Service Design
  41. Introduction
  42. Support Planning with People with Disabilities
  43. 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?
  44. Advancing Social Work Research in Australia: Experienced Researcher Perspectives
  45. Reflecting on change and continuity for people with intellectual disabilities: epilogue for Kew Cottages
  46. Australian work health and safety enforcement regarding service provision to people with disabilities: lessons for service providers*
  47. Policy and practice issues in making an advance care directive with decision making support: A case study
  48. More‐than‐care: People with intellectual disability and emerging vulnerability during pandemic lockdown
  49. Failed Ambitions: Kew Cottages and Changing Ideas of Intellectual Disabilities by Lee-Ann Monk et al. (review)
  50. ‘Mainstreaming’ Meets ‘Choice and Control’: Unsettling Neoliberal Imaginaries of Service Choice
  51. Progressive resistance training in young people with Prader-Willi syndrome: protocol for a randomised trial (PRESTO)
  52. Factors associated with experiences of abuse among lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer, and asexual (LGBTQA+) adults with disability in Australia
  53. The health inequities of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities: Strategies for change
  54. Three modes of inclusion of people with intellectual disability in mainstream services: mainstreaming, differentiation and individualisation
  55. 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.
  56. Moving from Support for Decision-making to Substitute Decision-making: Legal Frameworks and Perspectives of Supporters of Adults with Intellectual Disabilities
  57. Programs and Practices to Support Community Participation of People with Intellectual Disabilities
  58. The Types of Scholarly Publications Produced by Australian Social Work Researchers
  59. “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
  60. Patterns of group home culture in organisations supporting people with intellectual disabilities: A cross-sectional study
  61. Forming and supporting circles of support for people with intellectual disabilities – a comparative case analysis
  62. Parental strategies that support adults with intellectual disabilities to explore decision preferences, constraints and consequences
  63. Social inclusion of LGBTQ and gender diverse adults with intellectual disability in disability services: A systematic review of the literature
  64. Paternalism to empowerment: all in the eye of the beholder?
  65. Barriers to physical activity and sport participation for people with intellectual disabilities from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds*
  66. How leaders in day service organisations understand service quality
  67. What is good service quality? Day service staff's perspectives about what it looks like and how it should be monitored
  68. Research End-User Perspectives about Using Social Work Research in Policy and Practice
  69. Handbook on Ageing with Disability
  70. Ageing in Place in Group Homes
  71. Understanding Ageing with Disability
  72. People with intellectual disability and the digitization of services
  73. Performance, purpose, and creation of encounter between people with and without intellectual disabilities
  74. “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
  75. Stories from the Wild West Frontier: The National Disability Insurance Scheme Experiences of People with Severe and Profound Intellectual Disability
  76. Examining the Complexities of Support for Decision-Making Practice
  77. Programs and Practices to Support Community Participation of People with Intellectual Disabilities
  78. Australian Social Work Research: An Empirical Study of Engagement and Impact
  79. 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.
  80. Possibility and risk in encounter between people with and without intellectual disability
  81. The temporalities of supported decision-making by people with cognitive disability
  82. Creating opportunities for convivial encounters for people with intellectual disabilities: “It looks like an accident”
  83. The Production and Dissemination of Australian Social Work Scholarship: A Citation Analysis
  84. A process of decision-making support: Exploring supported decision-making practice in Canada
  85. Violence Prevention Strategies for People with Intellectual Disabilities: A Scoping Review
  86. Dedifferentiation and people with intellectual disabilities in the Australian National Disability Insurance Scheme: Bringing research, politics and policy together
  87. COVID-19 IDD: A global survey exploring the impact of COVID-19 on individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their caregivers
  88. Community participation as identity and belonging: a case study of Arts Project Australia. “I am an artist”
  89. Dimensions of group home culture as predictors of quality of life outcomes
  90. What constitutes effective support in obtaining and maintaining employment for individuals with intellectual disability? A scoping review
  91. A prospective study of hospital episodes of adults with intellectual disability
  92. The significance of research to practice during the COVID-19 pandemic
  93. Choice, Preference, and Disability
  94. Supported Decision Making
  95. Development and psychometric evaluation of the Group Home Culture Scale
  96. Predicting good Active Support for people with intellectual disabilities in supported accommodation services: Key messages for providers, consumers and regulators
  97. Quality of practice in supported accommodation services for people with intellectual disabilities: What matters at the organisational level
  98. Realising ‘will, preferences and rights’: reconciling differences on best practice support for decision-making?
  99. 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
  100. Factors that predict good Active Support in services for people with intellectual disabilities: A multilevel model
  101. The Routledge Handbook of Social Work Theory
  102. Moving on from Quality Assurance: Exploring Systems that Measure both Process and Personal Outcomes in Disability Services
  103. The home environments and occupational engagement of people with intellectual disabilities in supported living
  104. Writing the script. The overt and hidden contradictions of supporters’ work in independent self-advocacy groups
  105. Analysis of Australian Research Council Grants Awarded for Social Work Projects 2008–2017
  106. Are patients with communication difficulties included in qualitative research on patient experience?
  107. Review of “Enabling Risk: Putting Positives First”, online learning resource developed specifically for disability support workers by Bigby, Douglas, and Vassallo
  108. Introduction to the Australasian Society for Intellectual Disability Position Statement on Intellectual Disability and Complex Support Needs
  109. 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
  110. Using the concept of encounter to further the social inclusion of people with intellectual disabilities: what has been learned?
  111. Supporting decision-making of adults with cognitive disabilities: The role of Law Reform Agencies – Recommendations, rationales and influence
  112. ‘More people talk to you when you have a dog’ - dogs as catalysts for social inclusion of people with intellectual disabilities
  113. The state of health services partnering with consumers: evidence from an online survey of Australian health services
  114. An exploration of communication within active support for adults with high and low support needs
  115. The National Disability Insurance Scheme in an Urban Context: Opportunities and Challenges for Australian Cities
  116. Life stories of people with intellectual disabilities in modern Australia
  117. How frontline staff manage paperwork in group homes for people with intellectual disability: Implications for practice
  118. Commentary on ASID position statement: Addressing the shortcomings of dedifferentiation: Introduction and Summary
  119. ‘I Feel Free’: the Experience of a Peer Education Program with Fijians with Spinal Cord Injury
  120. Staff perspectives on paperwork in group homes for people with intellectual disability
  121. Providing support for decision making to adults with intellectual disability: Perspectives of family members and workers in disability support services
  122. Social Work Research in the Field of Disability in Australia: A Scoping Review
  123. The self-perception of staff in group homes for people with intellectual disability
  124. Communication access on trains: a qualitative exploration of the perspectives of passengers with communication disabilities
  125. Health Education by Peers with Spinal Cord Injury: a Scoping Review
  126. Delivering decision making support to people with cognitive disability - What has been learned from pilot programs in Australia from 2010 to 2015
  127. Identifying conceptualizations and theories of change embedded in interventions to facilitate community participation for people with intellectual disability: A scoping review
  128. Implementation of active support over time in Australia
  129. What constitutes effective support in obtaining and maintaining employment for individuals with intellectual disability? A scoping review
  130. Comparing costs and outcomes of supported living with group homes in Australia
  131. A Comparative Study of Australian Social Work Research
  132. Navigating the complexity of disability support in tertiary education: perspectives of students and disability service staff
  133. Debates about dedifferentiation: twenty-first century thinking about people with intellectual disabilities as distinct members of the disability group
  134. Whose Life Story Is It? Self-Reflexive Life Story Research with People with Intellectual Disabilities
  135. Measuring practice leadership in supported accommodation services for people with intellectual disability: Comparing staff-rated and observational measures
  136. Conundrums of supported living: The experiences of people with intellectual disability
  137. Increasing day service staff capacity to facilitate positive relationships with people with severe intellectual disability: Evaluation of a new intervention using multiple baseline design
  138. Improving Quality of Life Outcomes in Supported Accommodation for People with Intellectual Disability: What Makes a Difference?
  139. Culture in Better Group Homes for People With Intellectual Disability at Severe Levels
  140. The role of practice leadership in active support: impact of practice leaders’ presence in supported accommodation services
  141. Perspectives on Social Work in Australia from the Norma Parker Addresses and Key Papers in Australian Social Work
  142. “I’ve never been a yes person”: Decision-making participation and self-conceptualization after severe traumatic brain injury
  143. A case study of an intentional friendship between a volunteer and adult with severe intellectual disability: “My life is a lot richer!”
  144. Commentary by Christine Bigby on “Reducing the Inequality of Luck: Keynote Address at the 2015 Australasian Society for Intellectual Disability National Conference” (Bonyhady, 2016)*
  145. Scientific Oral Presentations
  146. Australian social work research on ageing and aged care: A scoping review
  147. Transition to Retirement
  148. Supporting workers with disabilities: a scoping review of the role of human resource management in contemporary organisations
  149. Supporting Students with Invisible Disabilities: A Scoping Review of Postsecondary Education for Students with Mental Illness or an Acquired Brain Injury
  150. Confidence of group home staff in supporting the health needs of older residents with intellectual disability
  151. Intellectual Disability and Stigma
  152. Empowering People with Intellectual Disabilities to Challenge Stigma
  153. ‘We Were More Radical back then’: Victoria's First Self-Advocacy Organisation for People with Intellectual Disability
  154. Mainstream, Inclusionary, and Convivial Places: Locating Encounters Between People with and Without Intellectual Disabilities
  155. Social Work Research in the Child Protection Field in Australia
  156. Self-Advocacy as a Means to Positive Identities for People with Intellectual Disability: ‘We Just Help Them, Be Them Really’
  157. Becoming a decision-making supporter for someone with acquired cognitive disability following traumatic brain injury
  158. Preparing Manuscripts that Report Qualitative Research: Avoiding Common Pitfalls and Illegitimate Questions
  159. A case study about the supported participation of older men with lifelong disability at Australian community-based Men's Sheds
  160. Observing practice leadership in intellectual and developmental disability services
  161. Critical Realism in Social Work Research: Examining Participation of People with Intellectual Disability
  162. Paperwork in group homes for people with intellectual disability
  163. Reflections on being a first generation self-advocate: Belonging, social connections, and doing things that matter
  164. ‘The biggest thing is trying to live for two people’: Spousal experiences of supporting decision-making participation for partners with TBI
  165. “I won't be around forever”: Understanding the decision-making experiences of adults with severe TBI and their parents
  166. Movement on Shifting Sands: Deinstitutionalisation and People with Intellectual Disability in Australia, 1974–2014
  167. Mediating Community Participation: Practice of Support Workers in Initiating, Facilitating or Disrupting Encounters between People with and without Intellectual Disability
  168. Factors that Underpin the Delivery of Effective Decision-making Support for People with Cognitive Disability
  169. Transition to retirement and participation in mainstream community groups using active mentoring: a feasibility and outcomes evaluation with a matched comparison group
  170. “She's been involved in everything as far as I can see”: Supporting the active participation of people with intellectual disability in community groups
  171. A systematic review of hospital experiences of people with intellectual disability
  172. Identifying Good Group Homes: Qualitative Indicators Using a Quality of Life Framework
  173. ‘We Just Call Them People’: Positive Regard as a Dimension of Culture in Group Homes for People with Severe Intellectual Disability
  174. Sibling Roles in the Lives of Older Group Home Residents with Intellectual Disability: Working with Staff to Safeguard Wellbeing
  175. What are Victoria's Disability Service Standards Really Measuring?
  176. Is the National Disability Insurance Scheme Taking Account of People with Intellectual Disabilities?
  177. Health issues of older people with intellectual disability in group homes
  178. Guide to Visiting and Good Group Homes, by Christine Bigby and Emma Bould
  179. Cycles of Adaptive Strategies Over the Life Course
  180. An Effective Program Design to Support Older Workers With Intellectual Disability to Participate Individually in Community Groups
  181. “I'm in their shoes”: Experiences of peer educators in sexuality and relationship education
  182. Supported Decision Making: Understanding How its Conceptual Link to Legal Capacity is Influencing the Development of Practice
  183. Editorial
  184. Being Recognised and Becoming Known: Encounters between People with and without Intellectual Disability in the Public Realm
  185. Conceptualizing Inclusive Research with People with Intellectual Disability
  186. A Collaborative Group Method of Inclusive Research
  187. Mentors' experiences of using the Active Mentoring model to support older adults with intellectual disability to participate in community groups
  188. Residential aged care for people with intellectual disability: A matter of perspective
  189. Ethical challenges in researching in group homes for people with severe learning difficulties: shifting the balance of power
  190. Taking each day as it comes: staff experiences of supporting people with Down syndrome and Alzheimer's disease in group homes
  191. Responsiveness to self-report questions about loneliness: a comparison of mainstream and intellectual disability-specific instruments
  192. A National Disability Insurance Scheme—Challenges for Social Work
  193. ‘I hope he dies before me’: unravelling the debates about ageing and people with intellectual disability
  194. Whose decision is it anyway? How clinicians support decision-making participation after acquired brain injury
  195. ‘Do You Think I’m Stupid?’: Urban Encounters between People with and without Intellectual Disability
  196. Implementation of active support in Victoria, Australia: An exploratory study
  197. Maintaining Quality and Withstanding Challenges
  198. Uncovering Dimensions of Culture in Underperforming Group Homes for People with Severe Intellectual Disability
  199. A model of processes that underpin positive relationships for adults with severe intellectual disability
  200. The Toronto declaration on bridging knowledge, policy and practice in aging and disability
  201. Advancing a research agenda for bridging ageing and disability
  202. The Toronto declaration on bridging knowledge, policy and practice in aging and disability
  203. Social inclusion and people with intellectual disability and challenging behaviour: A systematic review
  204. Norma Parker Addresses
  205. Remembering Jim Mansell
  206. Competencies of front-line managers in supported accommodation: Issues for practice and future research
  207. Experiences of supporting people with Down syndrome and Alzheimer's disease in aged care and family environments
  208. Social Interaction with Adults with Severe Intellectual Disability: Having Fun and Hanging Out
  209. The Challenges and Benefits of Using Participant Observation to Understand the Social Interaction of Adults with Intellectual Disabilities
  210. EDITORIAL
  211. Encounter as a dimension of social inclusion for people with intellectual disability: Beyond and between community presence and participation
  212. Disconnected expectations: Staff, family, and supported employee perspectives about retirement
  213. 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
  214. Book Review: Group Homes for People with Intellectual Disabilities by Tim Clement and Christine Bigby. London: Jessica Kingsley, 2010. ISBN 978-1-84310-6456
  215. Editorial Note
  216. Inclusion in political and public life: The experiences of people with intellectual disability on government disability advisory bodies in Australia
  217. Rankings, Ratings, and Reviews
  218. 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
  219. 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
  220. The pearl in the middle: A case study of social interactions in an individual with a severe intellectual disability
  221. The potential for active mentoring to support the transition into retirement for older adults with a lifelong disability
  222. Hospital experiences of older people with intellectual disability: Responses of group home staff and family members
  223. Planning and decision making about the future care of older group home residents and transition to residential aged care
  224. Reflections on doing inclusive research in the “Making Life Good in the Community” study
  225. Group homes for people with intellectual disabilities: encouraging inclusion and participation
  226. Written out of History: Invisible Women in Intellectual Disability Social Work
  227. Social Work and Disability: An Uneasy Relationship
  228. A Five-Country Comparative Review of Accommodation Support Policies for Older People With Intellectual Disability
  229. Aging . . . A Continuing Challenge
  230. Social Work Practice and Intellectual Disability
  231. Building Social Work Scholarship
  232. Diversity and Ageing
  233. “I Want to See the Queen”: Experiences of Service Use by Ageing People with an Intellectual Disability
  234. Breaking Out of a Distinct Social Space: Reflections on Supporting Community Participation for People with Severe and Profound Intellectual Disability
  235. ‘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
  236. Position statement on housing and support for people with severe or profound intellectual disability
  237. Maximizing community inclusion through mainstream communication services for adults with severe disabilities
  238. Corrigendum
  239. The Quality and Integrity of Australian Social Work
  240. 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
  241. A survey of people with intellectual disabilities living in residential aged care facilities in Victoria
  242. Research: Issues of active ageing: Perceptions of older people with lifelong intellectual disability
  243. Beset by obstacles: A review of Australian policy development to support ageing in place for people with intellectual disability
  244. Social Roles and Informal Support Networks in Mid Life and Beyond
  245. Planning and Support for People with Intellectual Disabilities
  246. Reflecting on 60 Years ofAustralian Social Work
  247. Moving towards Midlife Care as Negotiated Family Business: Accounts of people with intellectual disabilities and their families “Just getting along with their lives together”
  248. Why are conferences “Sometimes about us, without us”?
  249. Tensions between institutional closure and deinstitutionalisation: what can be learned from Victoria’s institutional redevelopment?
  250. Shifting Models of Welfare: Issues in Relocation from an Institution and the Organization of Community Living
  251. When is a house a home?
  252. An International Call for Papers
  253. Positioning the Journal for the Next Decade
  254. A Tribute to Professor Norman Smith
  255. Comparative Program Options for Aging People with Intellectual Disabilities
  256. Book Reviews
  257. Another minority group: use of aged care day programs and community leisure services by older people with lifelong disability
  258. 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.
  259. 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
  260. Evaluation of the Independent Review of a Major Life Decision Affecting People Who Have an Intellectual Disability
  261. Disability, Citizenship and Community Care. A Case for Welfare rights
  262. Comparison of specialist and mainstream programs for older carers of adults with intellectual disability: Considerations for service development
  263. But why are these questions being asked?: a commentary on Emerson (2004)
  264. Retirement or just a change of pace: an Australian national survey of disability day services used by older people with disabilities
  265. Evaluation of the Independent Review of a Major Life Decision Affecting People Who Have an Intellectual Disability
  266. Book Review
  267. Facilitating Transition
  268. Ageing people with a lifelong disability: challenges for the aged care and disability sectors
  269. Shifts in the model of service delivery in intellectual disability in Victoria
  270. Parental Substitutes
  271. Shifting responsibilities: The patterns of formal service use by older people with intellectual disability in Victoria
  272. When Parents Relinquish Care: Informal Support Networks of Older People with Intellectual Disability
  273. Later life for adults with intellectual disability: A time of opportunity and vulnerability
  274. Transferring responsibility: The nature and effectiveness of parental planning for the future of adults with intellectual disability who remain at home until mid-life
  275. Is there a hidden group of older people with intellectual disability and from whom are they hidden? Lessons from a recent case-finding study
  276. A demographic analysis of older people with intellectual disability registered with Community Services Victoria
  277. Access and linkage: Two critical issues for older people with an intellectual disability in utilising day activity and leisure services
  278. ‘I Hope He Dies Before Me’
  279. Issues in Researching the Ageing of People with Intellectual Disability