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 question and answer session is designed to represent the experiences of people engaged in the NDIS behaviour support process. This discussion also aims to provide a forum for the audience to ask questions about how to best engage and work with a practitioner, and how practitioners should best work with families and other providers and supports.
It would commence with each of the panelists speaking for 15 mins before a question and answer session. It would end with a 5 min summary and wrap-up.
Speakers
Erin Leif – Monash University, Senior lecturer, Behaviour analyst
Dr Erin Leif is a Behaviour Analyst, Senior Lecturer, and Associate Head of School in the School of Educational Psychology and Counselling, Faculty of Education, at Monash University. At the core of her research lies a deep commitment to promoting social justice and inclusivity, ensuring that the rights of all people, but particularly people with disabilities, are recognised and protected. Erin’s current research focuses on ways to help parents, teachers, and behaviour support practitioners use positive, preventative, evidence-based practices when supporting people with diverse learning needs in home, school, and community settings.
Phil Hayes-Brown – Parent speaker, Wallara, CEO
Phil was appointed Wallara CEO in 2010 after a 20 year career spanning investment banking, commercial law and sports marketing. The leap to the disability sector was primarily driven by being a carer of a family member with an intellectual disability who is also non verbal. Phil sees the Wallara role as helping the group of 700 adults with different abilities who attend Wallara to realise their full potential with help from a group of 200+ talented Support Coaches.
Julie Phillips – Disability Discrimination Legal Service, CEO, Disability Advocate
After working in the disability sector for over 30 years as a community worker and advocate for the Deaf Community, Julie is now CEO of the Disability Discrimination Legal Service. She is also a Disability Advocate who specialises in using human rights legislation to assist people with disabilities gain their rights, particularly students. She is Chairperson of Disability Advocacy of Victoria. Julie’s special area of interest is children with disabilities and their access to education, and her priorities are the use of evidence based approaches to education, and the cessation of violence and abuse against students with disabilities who display behaviours of concern.