Disability Practice Safeguarding Quality Service Delivery: a podcast series from the Living With Disability Research Centre
Disability Practice: Safeguarding Quality and Service Delivery is a new podcast series based upon the book of the same name, which is available as a free e-book from Springer.
Each episode coincides with one of the book’s chapters, featuring discussions the chapter’s author and a series of take-home messages[JP1] to apply to disability service delivery.
This series has been facilitated by Emeritus Professor Christine Bigby AO, Living with Disability Research Centre at La Trobe University, and Dr. Alan Hough, director of Purpose at Work, who co-edited the Disability Practice book.
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Disability Practice Safeguarding Quality Service Delivery: a podcast series from the Living With Disability Research Centre
Building Strong Foundations: Listening to and Learning from People with Intellectual Disabilities and Their Families
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This discussion is based upon the chapter of the same title, by Aaron J. Jackson and Christine Bigby in the book Disability Practice Safeguarding Quality Service Delivery (Bigby & Hough, 2023)
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This episode concentrates on the need to listen to and learn from people with intellectual.
People with intellectual disabilities are often not well-supported to participate in contributing to changes or are only represented by families or other allies.
The new, rights-based approaches discussed in the book emphasise hearing directly from people with lived experience of disability about their experiences as service users, to inform policy change and service design.
