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  1. How Can I Tell if a Behaviour Support Plan Is Good? The Perspectives, Opinions and Experiences of Australian Disability Support Workers

    Article • Journal of Policy and Practice in Intellectual Disabilities, September 2026, Wiley

    Professor Karen Nankervis

  2. Equal Right to Decide: Introducing the Special Issue on Inclusive Research in Neurodevelopmental Disorders

    Article • Advances in Neurodevelopmental Disorders, August 2026, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Karen Nankervis

  3. Enhancing the work wellbeing of disability support workers: Solutions from their perspectives

    Article • Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability, August 2026, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Karen Nankervis

  4. Inclusive Research in Genomics and Disability: Findings from the “We Need to Talk” Project

    Article • Advances in Neurodevelopmental Disorders, May 2026, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Karen Nankervis

  5. United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

    Article • January 2026, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Karen Nankervis

  6. United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

    Article • January 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Karen Nankervis

  7. A systematic review of delivery modes in school‐based adolescent social–emotional learning programs—Current perspectives and future directions

    Article • Review of Education, December 2024, Wiley

    Professor Karen Nankervis, Annemaree Carroll

  8. A positive behaviour support practice framework for disability and community services in Australia that prioritises human rights and evidence-based practices

    Article • Disability and Rehabilitation, September 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Karen Nankervis

  9. The Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications of Genomics and Disability: Findings from a Scoping Review and Their Human Rights Implications

    Article • Advances in Neurodevelopmental Disorders, September 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Karen Nankervis

  10. Australasian genetic counselors' attitudes toward disability and prenatal testing: Findings from a cross‐sectional survey

    Article • Journal of Genetic Counseling, September 2023, Wiley

    Annemaree Carroll, Professor Karen Nankervis

  11. Can the Behaviour Intervention Plan Quality Evaluation, Version 2, be simplified for use by stakeholders with limited experience of positive behaviour support?

    Article • Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, February 2023, Wiley

    Professor Karen Nankervis

  12. ‘Environments of concern’: reframing challenging behaviour within a human rights approach

    Article • International Journal of Developmental Disabilities, January 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Karen Nankervis

  13. Applying the CRPD to People With Intellectual and Developmental Disability With Behaviors of Concern During COVID‐19

    Article • Journal of Policy and Practice in Intellectual Disabilities, March 2021, Wiley

    Professor Karen Nankervis

  14. Interactions of Residents Who Have Intellectual Disability and Challenging Behaviours

    Article • International Journal of Disability Development and Education, October 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Karen Nankervis

  15. Using Common Determinants of Out-of-Home Care to Profile Parents of Children and Adolescents with a Disability: an Exploratory Study

    Article • Advances in Neurodevelopmental Disorders, March 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Karen Nankervis

  16. Clinical Governance Climate Within Disability Service Organizations from the Perspective of Allied Health Professionals

    Article • Journal of Policy and Practice in Intellectual Disabilities, January 2019, Wiley

    Professor Karen Nankervis

  17. Agencies and Professions in the Provision of Care

    Article • January 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Karen Nankervis

  18. Severity of cognitive disability and mental health court determinations about fitness to stand trial

    Article • Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, January 2018, Wiley

    Mr Jesse T Young, Professor Karen Nankervis

  19. Can the job demand-control-(support) model predict disability support worker burnout and work engagement?

    Article • Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability, June 2017, Informa Healthcare

    Professor Karen Nankervis

  20. The outcome of a statewide audit of the quality of positive behaviour support plans

    Article • Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability, November 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Karen Nankervis

  21. Population statistics as a source of intellectual disability prevalence data and possible indicators of co-occurring challenging behaviour in Indigenous adults

    Article • Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability, May 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Karen Nankervis

  22. Stolen voices: Facilitated communication is an abuse of human rights

    Article • Evidence-Based Communication Assessment and Intervention, July 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Karen Nankervis

  23. Work engagement and job burnout within the disability support worker population

    Article • Research in Developmental Disabilities, November 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Karen Nankervis

  24. Investigating the importance of various individual, interpersonal, organisational and demographic variables when predicting job burnout in disability support workers

    Article • Research in Developmental Disabilities, November 2012, Elsevier

    Professor Karen Nankervis

  25. Challenging Behaviour, Mental Health, and Offending

    Article • Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, June 2012, Wiley

    Professor Karen Nankervis

  26. Respite and Parental Relinquishment of Care: A Comprehensive Review of the Available Literature

    Article • Journal of Policy and Practice in Intellectual Disabilities, September 2011, Wiley

    Professor Karen Nankervis

  27. Why do families relinquish care? An investigation of the factors that lead to relinquishment into out-of-home respite care

    Article • Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, February 2011, Wiley

    Professor Karen Nankervis

  28. Sexuality, pregnancy and midwifery care for women with intellectual disabilities: A pilot study on attitudes of university students

    Article • Contemporary Nurse, April 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Karen Nankervis

  29. Evaluation of an intervention system for parents of children with intellectual disability and challenging behaviour

    Article • Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, May 2003, Wiley

    Professor Karen Nankervis