2023 Conference – Melbourne
Conference Theme was “Valuing different perspectives”
The 56th ASID conference was held from 22 – 24 November at the Crown Promenade Hotel, Melbourne.
This year’s conference theme is valuing different perspectives. It represents ASID’s mission and strategic goals to forge interaction between intellectual disability research, policy, and practice and the involvement of people with intellectual disability. The conference provides the only opportunity for researchers, policymakers, service providers, practitioners, families and carers, and people with intellectual disability to come together and learn from each other specifically about supporting people with intellectual disability well.
Aim of the Conference
People with intellectual disability continue to experience some of the poorest health and social outcomes and are disadvantaged in disability support systems. It is these issues which drive ASID’s goals of achieving rights and opportunities for people with intellectual disability.
Organising Committee
Christine Bigby
Andrea Cosentino
Bernadette Curryer
Andela Dew
Coral Farr
Brent Hayward
Laura Hogan
Darryleen Wiggins
John Willis
Program Committee
Christine Bigby
Angela Dew
Laura Hogan
Hilary Johnson
Keynote Speakers
- Dr Gustaaf Bos
- Assoc Prof Ilan Wiesel
- Dr Petra Bjorne
- Mandy Donley
- Prof Shih-Ning Then
- Prof Christine Bigby
- Dr Michelle King
- Daelle Bunker
ASID 2023 Conference – Wednesday
Presentation PDFs
Where available, PDFs of presentation slides are linked below. Abstracts can be viewed through the Handbook PDF.
Opening Session
- Evidence about good practice for supporting people with complex behaviour – Dr Petra Bjorne
- Promoting the reduction and elimination of the use of restrictive practices by providers to the greatest extent possible – Mandy Donley
Concurrent Session #1
- The aggression-severity outburst scale: testing a new behaviour severity measure – Glenys Holt
- What makes a good behaviour support plan? – Maria Vassos
- Trauma and stigma: The shadow side of belonging Benjamin – Garcia-Lee
- Shining light on personhood for people with intellectual disability – Eden Tuisaula Cruice & Brigit Mirfin-veitch
- Saying sorry for disability institutions – Gina Andrews-Zucker, Phillipa Carnemolla & Jack Kelly
- 4 rights for decision making – Ricky Kremer & Alexander Elliott
- People First NZ learn with us webapp: A digital tool – Julia Young & Alex Johnsen
- An update on accessible written information – Cathy Basterfield
- Carers from refugee backgrounds: Co-creating Arabic resources – Louisa Smith
Concurrent Session #2
- Housing and people with multiple and complex disabilities in NZ – Umi Asaka & Brigit Mirfin-veitch
- Post-parental care planning in rural Australia – Stuart Wark
- Moving out of the family home – Irene Belperio
- Living a good life in my own home – Angela Walter
- A mental health support program for us by us – Erin Louise Whittle
- Role of research building agency with people with intellectual disability – Morag Kelly
- Lived experience: Profound intellectual disabilities and inclusion in research – Michelle King
- The inclusion library – Phillippa Carnemolla & Jack Kelly
- The healthy discussions project – Michelle Wilcox
- Enhancing preventive healthcare through service provider education – Clare Woods & Jennifer Brennen
- Wellbeing Indicators for intellectually disabled New Zealanders – Shara Turner
- Transitioning from prison to community: Reflections from an NDIS OT – Sally Lamshed
Concurrent Session #3
- Centering Lived Experience of Intellectual Disability in Violence Prevention – Kristy Hill & Alison Maclean
- Understanding everyday harm: a scoping review of abuse literature – Sally Robinson
- Reframing parenting with intellectual disability: From problem to solution frame – Susan Collings
- Disability or not, I am still a parent, sometimes I just need a little support – Renee Mills & Crystal Richardson
- CID’s working together framework: Making co-production easy – Catalina Voroneanu & Jack Kelly
- Co-designing hospital education for healthcare workers about intellectual disability – Cathy Beck, Katie Brooker & Catrin Culla
ASID 2023 Conference – Thursday
Presentation PDFs
Where available, PDFs of presentation slides are linked below. Abstracts can be viewed through the Handbook PDF.
Opening Session
- Encounters between people with and without intellectual disabilities – Christine Bigby
- Responding to otherness. Encounters with people with severe intellectual disabilities – the potential of experimental-relational spaces of encounter – Dr Gustaaf Bos
- Making place for encounter across cognitive difference – Ilan Wiesel
Concurrent Session #4
- Roadmap for Improving the health of people with intellectual disability – Nicholas Lennox & Anthony Lark
- Co-designing a healthy cooking program for adults with intellectual disability – Roberta Asher
- Just include me: Co-produced easy read health literacy resources – Laura Naing, Jack Kelly & Nicole Ascaino
- Women with intellectual disability and mental health disorders – Erin Louise Whittle
- Scoping review, comparison of proxy and self-reports of internal states – Kristen Webb
- Lived experience of the fetal alcohol spectrum disorder diagnostic assessment – Kerryn Bagley
Concurrent Session #5
- Ageing residents in group homes: Exploring staff experiences – Tal Araten-Bergman
- Support model for seven people living in shared accommodation – Melanie Ingham
- Checking if services are good and safe for people with intellectual disability – Jade McEwen
- Changes in quality of support in group homes – Christine Bigby
- Collecting healthcare experience information from people with intellectual disability – Bronwyn Newman
- Improving the delivery of annual health assessments – Nicholas Lennox & Anthony Lark
- Falls in people with intellectual disability who live in group homes – Caroline Hart & Stella Koritsas
- Resources for strengthening hospital inclusion of people with intellectual disabilities – Teresa Iacono
- Towards inclusive practice: Reflections on why inclusive practice matters – Luke Nelson & Jamie Bannister
- The practical application of the Inclusive Governance Project findings – Bernadette Curryer & Will Harding
- TEDx for everyone: People with intellectual disability speaking up – Kathy Ellem & Donna Best
- The Silos Project: Working together helps students with intellectual disabilities to get jobs – Janice O’Connor
Concurrent Session #6
- Family’s experiences supporting adults in group homes during COVID‐19 – Tal Araten-Bergman
- Family perspectives on support in group homes – Christine Bigby
- Exploring student-parent experiences of a postgraduate disability studies program – Sian Anderson
- Enduring strength from a labour of love: Family-life with disability – Murray Rieck
- Contribution: A different perspective on measuring outcomes – Samuel Arnold & Sarah Butler
- Implementation of toolkit for planning and supporting new living arrangements – Micaela Goldsmith
ASID 2023 Conference – Friday
Presentation PDFs
Where available, PDFs of presentation slides are linked below. Abstracts can be viewed through the Handbook PDF.
Opening Session
- Recognising diversity: A framework for implementing supported decision making across sectors and disability groups – Christine Bigby
- Profound intellectual disability and decision-making: Lived experience from the margins – Michelle King & Daelle Bunker
- Supported decision making law reform – Shih-Ning Then
Concurrent Session #8
- Supported decision making: There is no ‘except who’ – Leanne Pearman & Shewani Shilkar
- Targeting feelings in choice and control workshops for staff – Charity Sims-Jenkins, Kathryn Bartlett & Rachael Walters
- Making moves in disability support work – Catherine Maitland
- He is just like a two-year-old: Controversial? – Sheridan Forster
- Raising awareness of self advocacy – David Corner
- Being equally valued in economic life – Ben Alexander & Raylene Griffiths
- Doing peer work with people with intellectual disability – Louisa Smith & Jarrod Sandell-Hay
Concurrent Session #9
- The role of the family in finding meaningful employment – Jan Kruger & Jack Kruger
- Family roles in adults’ lives: Views of service managers – Monica Cuskelly
- The NDIS and disability employment: A customised approach – Peter Smith
- NDIS workplace counselling and capacity building – Peter Smith & Lauren Pavlidis
- A new way to make choices about the end of life – Nicola McKenzie
- Deciding with support: Bringing supported decision-making to positive behaviour support – Sally Robinson