Non-members can purchase access to the recording of past webinars. Below are descriptions of all the webinars and the cost to access the recordings is $20 per webinar.
Please email the ASID office, info@asid.asn.au, to purchase a past webinar.
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Webinar | Creating inclusive spaces with Hidden Disabilities Sunflower
Wednesday, 6 May 202612:30pm – 1:30pm (AEST - Sydney time)2:30pm – 3:30pm (NZST - New Zealand time)Webinar: via Zoom Cost: Free for ASID members $30 for non-members Speaker Sandee Facy - Head of Hidden Disabilities Sunflower Aus/NZ ...
2026 | Between silence and risk
How people with intellectual disability raise concerns in paid care relationships. Proudly presented by the ASID Victoria division. Tuesday, 21 April 202612:30pm – 2:00pm (AEST - Sydney time)2:30pm – 4:00pm (NZST - New Zealand time)Webinar: via Zoom Cost: Free for...
2026 | Including people with intellectual disabilities on boards: Legal issues
Thursday, 23 April 202612:30pm – 1:30pm (AEST - Sydney time)2:30pm – 3:30pm (NZST - New Zealand time)Webinar: via Zoom Cost: Free for ASID members $25 for non-members About The Disability Royal Commission encouraged disability service providers to include people...
2026 | A place to call home: Interface hospital to home
Thursday, 2 April 202612:30pm – 1:30pm (AEDT - Sydney time)2:30pm – 3:30pm (NZDT - New Zealand time)Webinar: via Zoom Cost: Free for ASID members $30 for non-members About This webinar will present three models from across Australia and New Zealand on the challenges...
2026 | Experiences with co-design and co-research
Thursday, 5 March 202612:30pm – 1:30pm (AEDT - Sydney time)2:30pm – 3:30pm (NZDT - New Zealand time)Webinar: via ZoomCost: Free for ASID members $25 for non-members About In this webinar, Julia will talk about her experiences as a researcher with a learning disability...
2026 | Including the Voices of people with an Intellectual Disability in Research
Proudly presented by the QLD division. Wednesday, 11 February 202612pm – 1pm (AEST - QLD time)1pm – 2pm (AEDT - Sydney time)3pm – 4pm (NZDT - New Zealand time)Webinar: via Zoom Cost: Free for ASID members $25 for non-members About This presentation will describe the...
2026 | Rostering for Retention: a research-informed approach
Thursday, 5 February 202612:30pm – 1:30pm (AEDT - Sydney time)2:30pm - 3:30pm (NZDT - New Zealand time)Webinar: via Zoom Cost: Free for ASID members $25 for non-members About This event will describe how NOSS transformed staff engagement through person-centred...
2025 | Talking about the end of life with people with intellectual disability
Monday, 24 November 202511:30am – 12:30pm (AEST - Queensland time)12:30pm – 1:30pm (AEDT - Sydney time)2:30pm - 3:30pm (NZDT - New Zealand time)Webinar: via ZoomCost: Free for ASID members $30 for non-members AboutIn this webinar Michele will discuss:What happens if...
2025 | Queenslanders With Disability Network: Peer Leaders and Co-Design
Thursday, 20 November 202511:00am – 12:00pm (AEST - Queensland time)12:00pm – 1:00pm (AEDT - Sydney time)2:00pm - 3:00pm (NZDT - New Zealand time)Webinar: via Zoom Cost: Free for ASID members $25 for non-members About Queenslanders with Disability Network (QDN) is...
2025 | Real world challenges for young people with intellectual and cognitive disabilities in transition to adulthood
Monday, 29 September 2025 2:30pm – 5pm (AEST - Brisbane time) Location: The University of Queensland | Modwest Building 11A 120/121, St Lucia, Brisbane, QLD, 4072 Cost $10 for members $20 for non-members About This symposium is hosted by the Queensland Division...
2025 | More Choices, Better Spaces, Less Restraint
Exploring how increasing agency and building capable environments can reduce the use of restrictive practices for people with intellectual disability Thursday, 4 Sep 2025 12:30pm – 1:30pm (AEST - Sydney time) 2:30pm – 3:30pm (NZST - New Zealand time) Webinar:...
2025 | Safeguarding the Communication Rights of Minimally- and Non-Speaking Individuals
Safeguarding the Communication Rights of Minimally- and Non-Speaking Individuals In relation to Facilitated Communication and Rapid Prompting Method / Spellers Method About Growing numbers of minimally- and non-speaking people are being subjected to Facilitated...
2025 | Perspectives on making written information accessible to people with intellectual disabilities
Thursday, 10 July 2025 2pm – 3:30pm (AEST) 4pm – 5:30pm (NZST - New Zealand time) Webinar: via Zoom Speakers and Program Cathy Basterfield is a speech pathologist with 37 years experience working with people with intellectual disability and...
2025 | Improving Access to Justice
The Role of the Queensland Intermediary Scheme in Supporting People with Intellectual Disabilities during Police and Court Processes Presented by ASID QLD Division Wednesday, 23 July 2025 12pm – 1pm (AEST) 2pm – 3pm (NZST - New Zealand time) Webinar: via Zoom Cost...
2025 | From Compliance to Best Practice
Thursday, 5 June 2025 12pm – 1pm (ACST - Adelaide time) 12:30pm – 1:30pm (AEST - Sydney time) 2:30pm – 3:30pm (NZST - New Zealand time) Webinar: via Zoom * Please note due to an error the recording of this webinar is not available About Mel and Bec from Community...
2025 | Easy Read: Culture, Inclusion, and Future
Presented by ASID Aotearoa New Zealand Division Thursday, 29 May 2025 3pm – 4pm (NZST - New Zealand time) 1pm – 2pm (AEST - Sydney time) Webinar: via Zoom About Easy Read is part of learning/intellectual disability culture. This presentation will talk about Easy...
2025 | What should individuals and families expect from a behaviour support practitioner?
Presented by ASID Victoria Division Tuesday, 3 June 2025 To purchase a recording of this webinar, please contact info@asid.asn.au. About This event is primarily aimed towards professionals working in disability service provision. This online panel discussion and...
2025 | Delivering the service-for-one model
Tuesday, 8 April 2025 10am – 10:45am (AEST QLD time) Webinar: via Zoom About Graham will reflect on implementing and operating a service-for-one model to build a better quality of life for his profoundly disabled son. Graham deals with recruitment, training, sourcing...
2025 | Maximising the benefits of research for people with an intellectual disability
Thursday, 1 May 2025 12:30pm – 1:30pm (AEST Sydney time) Webinar: via Zoom Cost Free for members $25 for non-members About This presentation is suitable for a mixed audience of multidisciplinary professionals, family members and self advocates, and discusses how to...
2024 | The importance of trauma informed approaches
Thursday, 24 October 20243pm – 4pm (NZST - New Zealand time)1pm – 2pm (AEST - Sydney time)Webinar via ZoomSpeaker: Frian Wadia MNZMFounder & Chairperson NATINA(Neuroscience And Trauma Informed Network Aotearoa)Frian is a parent of three children with learning...
2024 | Tired of spinning plates: Re-storying care in the lives of people with intellectual and learning disabilities and their family carers
Thursday, 3 October 20245.30pm – 6.30pm (ACST - Adelaide time)6pm – 7pm (AEST - Sydney time)In Person: SACOSS Meeting room - 47 King William Rd, Unley, AdelaideWebinar: via ZoomSpeaker: Professor Katherine Runswick-ColeKatherine is a Visiting Scholar from the UK and...
2024 | Stronger Together: Inclusive research with people with intellectual disability
Thursday 11 July 2024 5pm - 7pm (ACST) 5.30pm - 7.30pm (AEST) Hybrid event What is this discussion about? This is a Hybrid Event, which means that some people will be online and some people will be in the room at the venue. People with intellectual disability are...
2024 | The use and utility of do-not-resuscitate orders for people with learning disability
Wednesday, 19 June 20246pm – 7pm (NZST - New Zealand time)4pm – 5pm (AEST - Sydney time)Webinar via ZoomSpeaker: Elizabeth Blake - Registered Nurse, Te Whatu Ora Waitaha - CanterburyElizabeth Blake is a Registered Nurse currently working in the Specialist Mental...
2024 | An accessible approach to advance care planning
Thursday, 30 May 2024 3pm – 4:15pm (NZST - New Zealand time) 1pm – 2.15pm (AEST - Sydney time) Webinar via Zoom Speaker: Dr Nic McKenzie, Disability sector consultant and researcher This event is a webinar. It might be of interest to people with intellectual...
2022 | Mental health support for adults with intellectual disability in NSW
Research shows that people with intellectual disability have a higher rate of mental health problems than the general population, but can struggle to get their particular needs met. This presentation will outline the opportunities and challenges for adults with...
2023 | Transitions to supported living for adults with intellectual disability
Article 19 of the Convention of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities stipulates the rights of persons with disabilities to choose where and with whom they live and to have access to the necessary supports to enable them to do so. In Australia, the National...
2022 | Stepping out in the World – the new adulthood for Gen Zs with Down Syndrome
Down syndrome (DS) was first described in 1866 and has one of the longest histories of documentation of any disability. Unfortunately, the misconceptions from the era when DS was called Mongolism, and when individuals were confined to institutions from birth with...
2022 | Trauma Informed Practice
Presented by Sally Skewes, Sally Robinson and Sue Goodall. What is this webinar about? People with disability experience 1.8 times higher rates of violence/abuse, including extreme forms of intimate partner violence/sexual assault, and greater barriers to accessing...
2022 | Ethical research and co-design of easyread resources with women with intellectual disabilities
Supporting informed pregnancy decision making for people with intellectual disabilities who have experienced violence – A collaborative, mixed-methods practice and research project. Presented by Victoria Tucker, WWILD SVP Association Inc. and Kari Vallury, Children by...
2022 | Improving Child & Family Outcomes Where a Parent has an Intellectual Disability Webinar
Presented by Dr Susan Collings, Senior Research Fellow at the University of Sydney’s Research Centre for Children and Families, Dr Catherine Wade, Principal Research Specialist at the Parenting Research Centre and Dr Margaret Spencer, Senior Lecturer in Social Work...
2022 | STOMPing out the use of inappropriate psychotropic drugs for people with intellectual and other disabilities
Presented by Mandy Donley, the Senior Practitioner in Victoria, Professor Shoumi Deb, Imperial College London and Ms Bharati Limbu, Imperial College London, 12 April 2022. What is this webinar about? Stopping Over-Medication of People with a Learning Disability...
2022 | Positive Behaviour Support and Clinical Supervision
Presented by Dr Jeffrey Chan, 7 April 2022. What is this webinar about? Integral to the Positive Behaviour Support (PBS) capability framework and good quality behaviour support planning is clinical supervision for PBS practitioners. Behaviour support plan writers...
2021 | Counting for Something: Early deaths must be better understood
Presented by: Sharon Brandford, 18 June 2021 What is the webinar about? Mortality data provides a rich source of information to understand why people with intellectual disability in New Zealand die between 18 and 23 years earlier than the general population. Drawing...
2021 | COVID-19 and Human Rights issues for People with intellectual disabilities
Presented by: Dr Elena Jenkin, 10 August 2021 What is the webinar about? People with intellectual disabilities are particularly susceptible to COVID-19. Whilst Victorian disability services have a responsibility to protect people with intellectual disabilities’ human...
2021 | Enabling hospitals to be more responsive to people with intellectual disabilities
Presented by Professor Christine Bigby, 8 September 2020 What is this webinar about? The study concerns the interfaces across mainstream service systems, people with disabilities and their families, and disability service systems. The study aim was to provide...
2020 | Adapting Trauma Treatment for Youth Who Have an Intellectual/Developmental Disability
Presented by Brian Tallant, 7 October 2020 What is this webinar about? In a 45-50 minute presentation, Brian Tallant will discuss supporting people who have an Intellectual Developmental Disability and who have experienced trauma. The presentation will also have a...
2021 | Intellectual disability: What is it, and what is its impact?
Presented by: Dr Michele Wiese & Samantha Frain, 12 August 2021 What is the webinar about? This webinar is for entry-level disability support professionals, or anyone who wants to understand what intellectual disability is. The presenters will cover three aims: 1)...
2021 | LGBTIQA+ people with intellectual disability
Presented by: Dr Amie O'Shea (Deakin University) & Nathan Despott (Inclusion Melbourne), 27 May 2021 What is this webinar about? This seminar will present the contemporary research based understandings surrounding LGBTIQA+ people with intellectual disability. It...
2020 | Developing a social skills program for adults with an Intellectual Disability
Presented by Emily Churchill, 8 December 2020 What is this webinar about? Social skills programs offer one way for people to improve their skills and independence over time. There is evidence to suggest that when delivered effectively they can assist people to...
2020 | Mean As!: People with a learning disability connecting the strands of Inclusive Research and Sexual Citizenship
Presenters: Dr Brigit Mirfin-Veitch - Director of the Donald Beasley Institute & Paul Milner - Senior Researcher at the Donald Beasley Institute, 29 October 2020 What is this webinar about? Many people with a learning disability describe lives lived at the very...
2020 | Sexuality education in NSW high schools
Presented by Prof Iva Strnadová and Julie Loblinzk, 26 August 2020 What is this webinar about? Students with an intellectual disability and/or autism often do not receive holistic sexuality education, unlike students without a disability. According to the UN...
2021 | Shining a light on parents with intellectual disbility
Presented by: Dr Susan Collings , 7 October 2021 What is this webinar about? This session is for anyone interested to know more about the experiences of people with Intellectual Disability when they become parents. We will hear from a passionate academic, Dr...
2020 | Sleep disturbance in children with developmental differences
Presented by Jemma Vivian and Jacqui Knight, 21 September 2020 What is this webinar about? This webinar is about sleep in children with developmental differences, and will focus on the importance of sleep, the impact of sleep problems in children with developmental...
2020 | Supporting people with intellectual and developmental disability from refugee backgrounds
Presented by Dr Angela Dew, 11 August 2020 What is this webinar about? Recently 15 million Syrian and Iraqi people fled their homes because of war and human rights violations. In 2015, Australia committed to settle 12,000 of them as humanitarian entrants. In 2012 the...
2020 | We can achieve more when we work together as a team: talking about inclusive governance
Presented by Robert Strike and Justine O'Neill, 18 November 2020 What is this webinar about? CID board member Robert Strike AM and CEO Justine O’Neill will explain how inclusion strengthens the vision, unity and focus of a board. We’ll talk about how we make it work...
2021 | To tweet or not to tweet? Using twitter to promote research
Presented by: Dr Simone Reppermund, 10 June 2021 What is the webinar about? Twitter is used by many researchers and institutions and is seen as a powerful platform to increase the outreach and engagement of projects and publications. Understanding how it works and how...
2020 | What do disability support organisations believe about Positive Behaviour Support?
Presented by Brent Hayward in conjunction with the Association for Positive Behaviour Support Australia (APBSA), 13 October 2020 What is this webinar about? Despite the increasing promotion of positive behaviour support (PBS) in intellectual disability services and...
2021 | What’s Reasonable? Type 2 Diabetes Guidelines
Presented by Dr Henrietta Trip, 26 August 2021 What is the webinar about? Diabetes for people with learning, intellectual and developmental disability is often not diagnosed, under reported and, as a result, may be poorly managed. Henrietta was part of a team through...
2020 | Wills and Estate Planning: Questions and Issues Confronting Parents with Children with Intellectual Disabilities
Presented by Jill Wilson and Ben White, 12 October 2020 What happens in this webinar Welcome/Acknowledgement of Country (5 mins) Jill Wilson and Ben White will speak on recently published research paper: What is fair and reasonable? Norms and strategies guiding the...
2020 | Your Dental Health: Interdisciplinary approaches to supporting the oral health of people with intellectual disability
Presented by Nathan Despott - Inclusion Melbourne and Dr Kerrie Punshon President of ASSCID (Australian Society of Special Care in Dentistry), 10 November 2020 What is this webinar about? This webinar will be facilitated by members of the Oral Health and Disability...