Improving academic outcomes by moderating anxiety in children with autism. The project aims to investigate links between anxiety and academic enablers for children with autism. As a group, these children are currently achieving at lower rates than their peers, with implications for their future social and economic wellbeing. Effective interventions to improve educational outcomes are lacking. This project will investigate how anxiety, a commonly occurring condition in autism, impacts attitudes a ....Improving academic outcomes by moderating anxiety in children with autism. The project aims to investigate links between anxiety and academic enablers for children with autism. As a group, these children are currently achieving at lower rates than their peers, with implications for their future social and economic wellbeing. Effective interventions to improve educational outcomes are lacking. This project will investigate how anxiety, a commonly occurring condition in autism, impacts attitudes and behaviours that facilitate students’ participation in and ability to benefit from academic instruction in the classroom. Findings are intended to provide an evidence base for the development of an intervention suitable for use by service providers to increase academic achievement in children with autism.Read moreRead less
Industry Laureate Fellowships - Grant ID: IL230100154
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$2,582,419.00
Summary
Fixing the NDIS: cost, effectiveness and access for psychosocial disability. This project aims to address serious deficits in the operation of the National Disability Insurance Scheme for one of its largest participant groups: people with psychosocial disability. This project expects to develop new data on scheme outcomes, cost-effectiveness and participant experiences to develop an appropriate and implementable program logic to improve supports for this group. Expected outcomes will be scheme r ....Fixing the NDIS: cost, effectiveness and access for psychosocial disability. This project aims to address serious deficits in the operation of the National Disability Insurance Scheme for one of its largest participant groups: people with psychosocial disability. This project expects to develop new data on scheme outcomes, cost-effectiveness and participant experiences to develop an appropriate and implementable program logic to improve supports for this group. Expected outcomes will be scheme reform by implementing a new framework of supports for psychosocial disability and data to improve the operation of national policy for this group more broadly. This should provide significant benefits for the cost-effective operation of the National Disability Insurance Scheme and build research capacity in disability policy.Read moreRead less
The Disability Dialogue brings people together to find common ground and find solutions that work for people with disability.
The Disability Dialogue is a safe space, independent of government, where people with disability, their families, representative organisations, providers, researchers, and the wider community come together to work on things that matter to us.
Disability advocates across the country spend close to half their time on NDIS related matters. This means advocates have a wide range of expertise and experiences about what is, and isn’t, working in the Scheme. The NDIS Review is interested in learning from this expertise, and to hear about how to make sure the Scheme is delivering for people with disability, their families and supporters.
The NDIS Review is looking at the quality and safety of services within the NDIS and the safety of people with disability in other places. The Disability Royal Commission has looked at harm and neglect in the NDIS but also in schools, family homes, hospitals, and correctional facilities. The Government has also implemented the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Framework 2016 (the Framework) and the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission 2018 (the Commission). The Framework aims to ensure the quality ....The NDIS Review is looking at the quality and safety of services within the NDIS and the safety of people with disability in other places. The Disability Royal Commission has looked at harm and neglect in the NDIS but also in schools, family homes, hospitals, and correctional facilities. The Government has also implemented the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Framework 2016 (the Framework) and the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission 2018 (the Commission). The Framework aims to ensure the quality and safety of NDIS services, empower and support participants, and provide consistent regulation of service providers to address reports of harm to service users.Read moreRead less
The conference will bring together fresh ideas and new considerations, all grounded in good practice and evidence, to foster a discussion about the future of the workforce, policy, service provision and the human rights of people with disability.
The report explains, from an international perspective, why the current design of the NDIS is unsustainable and offers a regenerative vision for its reform.
Every Day Matters: Reducing School Non-Attendance in Autistic Students. Autistic children miss one day a week of school, three times more than their peers. This significantly impacts their learning, wellbeing and later, their vocational outcomes. This project aims to identify the factors that put autistic children at increased risk of missing school and map the supports and interventions used to reduce school non-attendance. Expected outcomes include an autism-specific model of the how and why s ....Every Day Matters: Reducing School Non-Attendance in Autistic Students. Autistic children miss one day a week of school, three times more than their peers. This significantly impacts their learning, wellbeing and later, their vocational outcomes. This project aims to identify the factors that put autistic children at increased risk of missing school and map the supports and interventions used to reduce school non-attendance. Expected outcomes include an autism-specific model of the how and why school non-attendance is elevated for autistic students. It is anticipated that this model make the important step of enabling teachers and professionals to identify which autistic children are most at risk of absenteeism and select the best strategies to support a positive and beneficial return to school.Read moreRead less
3D Printed Food for People with Swallowing Disability. This project aims to identify ways that 3D food printing (additive manufacturing using real food in a device like a ink-jet printer) could be used to improve the visual appeal of puree meals for people with swallowing difficulty, who make up ~8% of the world's population. This study will be the first to include people with swallowing disability (e.g., related to cerebral palsy, stroke, older age) and their supporters in examining the views a ....3D Printed Food for People with Swallowing Disability. This project aims to identify ways that 3D food printing (additive manufacturing using real food in a device like a ink-jet printer) could be used to improve the visual appeal of puree meals for people with swallowing difficulty, who make up ~8% of the world's population. This study will be the first to include people with swallowing disability (e.g., related to cerebral palsy, stroke, older age) and their supporters in examining the views and experiences of stakeholders on the impact of 3D food printing on quality of life, enjoyment, participation, and safety. Outcomes include new knowledge on factors affecting the implementation of 3D food printing in disability and aged care services, to inform policy, practice, and future research.Read moreRead less