The 42nd ASSID Annual Conference was held in Fremantle in 2007

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Life Experiences of Parents with a young adult son or daughter with Intellectual Disability who share the family home: Letting go of the pathogenic paradigm
Murray Rieck
Psychologist, Disability Services Queensland

‘Voices for Change’: Participatory Action Research in partnership with young adults with Down Syndrome in New South Wales
Miriam Stevenson PhD Candidate University of Sydney
Supervisors: Professor Barbara Fawcett Dr Margot Rawsthorne
(Faculty of Education and Social Work)

Defining the Sexual Health Needs of Men with an Intellectual Disability: A Salutogenic Approach

Cluster Housing: What is its likely impact?
Robert L. Jackson PhD
Edith Cowan University

Happy feet: keeping feet in tune
Paula Burgess and Chris Atkins
Health Care Team, Disability Enterprises, Leura NSW

Making Sense of Communication- A Collaborative Approach to Sensorimotor Therapy
Pia Turner and Irene Orkopoulos
Project Officers Therapy Focus Inc

Promoting Participation and Quality of Life: Use of the Life Needs Model (King et al, 2002) to guide service planning
Louella Vogel
Clinical Standards Officer, Therapy Focus Inc.

Talking Mats: Making Choices and Expressing View for People with Communication Support Needs
Irene Orkopoulos
Project Officer Therapy Focus July 2007

Using a clinical audit tool to examine life long learning in the disability sector
Abigail Lewis
Clinical StandardsOfficer Therapy Focus Inc

Heidegger, Dasein and Disability: Re-thinking what it means to be Human?
Terri Fealy
La Trobe University

Getting a Life: Key transitions in the lives of people with Intellectual disabilities
Dorothy Atkinson
The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK