The Disability Information and Resource Centre

The Stop the Violence Project (STVP) is a national project which aims to improve service delivery for women and girls with disabilities who are experiencing or at risk of violence.

The project headed by Women With Disabilities Australia (WWDA) is undertaking research to build the evidence base to support future reform of the service system to better respond to the needs of women and girls with disabilities.

A survey is currently being conducted and closes on the 31st of May. Click on the link below for more info.

http://www.stvp.org.au/

Shannon Peake

Community Information Worker

Women’s Information Service

Department for Communities + Social Inclusion

Ground floor, 91-97 Grenfell Street

Adelaide SA 5000

8303 0590  I  1800 188 158

shannon.peake@dcsi.sa.gov.au

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The ability for older people to access suitable transport options is important for maintaining social roles and well-being.  We are conducting research into older peoples’ perspectives of the “age-friendliness” of community transport in metropolitan South Australia.

Here’s your opportunity to have your say!

(Eastern); Payneham Community Centre, Payneham, 5070, on Wed 24th April, 10-11.30am.

(Southern); Onkaparinga Council, Ramsay Place, Noarlunga Centre, 5168, on Wed 17th April, 10-11.30am

(Northern) City of Tea Tree Gully civic centre – Friday 19 April, 10.30am – 12.00

(Western) City of Charles Sturt civic centre – Monday 15 April, 10.30am – 12.00

Please click here to download the flyer for more information.

TINNITUS SA Presents a free information session about “New Research in Tinnitus.” Tinnitus is commonly known as “ringing in the ears”.

Where:

Better Hearing Australia, Adelaide
SACOSS Building
47 King William Road
UNLEY

When:

Wednesday 31st October
10.00am – 11.30am

Bookings preferred:

Phone: 8268 4189

Click here to download flyer.

In this study happening at the Social Policy Research Centre, researchers are speaking with both young people with disabilities and their siblings without disabilities about their experiences of disability during young adulthood and how these affect their sibling relationships.

If either you or your brother or sister have a disability and you are both aged 15 to 25, you can participate via an interview or your own response to a few key questions that you send in via a format of your choice. Accessibility and communication supports are available.

Interviews are happening in Adelaide between November 5 and 11, 2012. To take part, see http://www.siblingsanddisability.com or contact Ariella Meltzer on (02) 9385 3747 or a.meltzer@unsw.edu.au.

Families4Families ABI Support Network Stage One surveys were sent in July and preliminary results are now in. Please join us for a discussion of our significant research findings along with an overview of preliminary results from our Stage One focus groups, which are currently being held. These findings are influencing the design and delivery of our Network Supports – an 18 month program for people with ABI and their family members being delivered across our state starting January 2013.

Monday 5 November 10 – 11.30 am

Flinders University City Campus

Click here to download invitation with maps

Hello, My name is Cindy Eggington.

I am a Ph.D. student from Flinders University, from the Unit of Disability and Community Inclusion.

I am conducting research about the stress associated with the caring role, involving the care-givers of people who experience mental illness. The attached PDF Introduction Letter and Information Sheet document contains an Introduction Letter and Information Sheet about the research project.

Your participation in this research project is completely voluntary. I would appreciate your contribution by completing a short survey.

The link below provides direct access to the survey.

Participants can return the survey directly, by clicking the submit button when finished.

https://adobeformscentral.com/?f=VqnaN4gaU800IvfVGMhS0A

Thank you very much for your assistance and contribution to this research. Please do not hesitate to contact me for more information at: cindy.eggington@flinders.edu.au

Yours Sincerely

Cindy Eggington

Flinders University of South Australia is running research examining concerns parents may have held for their child’s development, prior to their child’s diagnosis of high-functioning autism. We are particularly interested in how these concerns may differ for parents of daughters compared to parents of sons. The study also examines strategies that your child may have used to cope with various social situations.

Eligible participants: Parents of children who are currently aged between 6 and 17 years old, were diagnosed at or after the age of six years old, have a diagnosis of high-functioning Autistic Disorder, Asperger’s, or Pervasive Developmental Disorder not-otherwisespecified.

In this study, High-functioning Autistic Disorder is defined as having some verbal ability and no intellectual disability.

If you would like further information please do not hesitate to contact the primary researcher, Rachel Hiller rachel.hiller@flinders.edu.au or supervisor, Associate Professor Robyn Young robyn.young@flinders.edu.au

This study is part of the project entitled ‘Identifying the Features of Autism Spectrum Disorders in Adulthood’ supported by Flinders University School of Psychology, and aims to identify the features of autism that are most relevant in adulthood to assist with adult diagnoses and to inform the development of adult diagnostic tools. We are looking for participants 18 years and over who have been diagnosed with an ASD and you will be reimbursed $25 for costs. For more information contact Clare Holmes on 8201 7920 or email clare.holmes@flinders.edu.au

The School of Psychology at Flinders University is recruiting siblings of children with ASD to validate a behavioural screening tool to look at how your child behaves in a semi-structured play setting.

We are looking for children:

• Between 12-37 months old

• Has a sibling with ASD

• May have some communication/developmental difficulties (but not ASD)

It will be a one-time session (about 1 hour) at the Early Intervention Research Program (EIRP) centre at Flinders University. Each participant who comes to the EIRP centre will be reimbursed $20. Home visits can also be arranged.

To find out more information or register your interest contact Yong-Hwee Nah (Fei) at Flinders University on 8201 3998 or email yonghwee.nah@flinders.edu.au Identifying the features of Autism

The School of Psychology at Flinders University is recruiting participants to validate a behavioural screening tool to identify the milder ASD condition in young children in a semi-structured play setting. We are looking for children:

• Between 12-37 months old

• Diagnosed only with PDD-NOS (not Autism)

It will be a one-time session (about 1 hour) at the Early Intervention Research Program (EIRP) centre at Flinders University. Each participant who comes to the EIRP centre will be reimbursed $20. Home visits can also be arranged.

To find out more information or register your interest contact Yong-Hwee Nah (Fei) at Flinders University on 8201 3998 or email yonghwee.nah@flinders.edu.au