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
‘Nothing about us without us.’ Including Lived Experiences of People with Intellectual Disabilities in Policy and Service Design’
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This episode is based upon the chapter of the same name by Dr Sian Anderson and Professor Christine Bigby in the book Disability Practice Safeguarding Quality Service Delivery (Bigby & Hough, 2023).
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This episode reviews different approaches to tapping into the expertise of people with disabilities from their lived experiences of disability and the practices that are most effective for working together with people with intellectual disabilities.
It considers some of the unresolved issues that support workers, managers and policy makers grapple with to further the rights of people and ensure there is ‘nothing about us without us’.