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Bringing supported decision-making to behaviour support

Project Details

Funding partner

NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission


Timeframe

June 2021 – June 2023


Publications

Pillen, H., Robinson, S., Fisher, A., Brebner, C., & Attrill, S., (2024). Educating for supported decision making and shared decision making: a scoping review of educational design and outcomes for education and training interventions. Disability and Rehabilitation

Team

This project is jointly led by Flinders and Council for Intellectual Disability.


DCI researchers


Flinders University researchers

  • Professor Chris Brebner


Research partners

  • Council for Intellectual Disability – Sabrina Forte, Lizzie Spasich, Julian Vaz

  • UNSW Sydney Social Policy Research Centre – Professor Karen Fisher, Dr Julian Laurens, Rosemary Kayess

  • University of Adelaide – Associate Professor Stacie Attrill

  • Office of the Public Advocate (Victoria) – Colleen Pearce, Aiofe Cooke

  • Possability – Matthew Spicer, Nicole Crates

Summary

The project website shares four integrated sets of resources tailored for the key project audiences: people with disability, supporters, service providers, and behaviour support practitioners. https://decidingwithsupport.flinders.edu.au/


Evidence reviews which underpin a model for supported decision-making will also be made available.

Impact

The results of the research will support people with decision-making disability to participate more fully in an important part of their own lives, improving their access to their human rights.


The co-design methodology will generate high-quality resources for participants and supporters, and address resistant problems in generating quality in behaviour support plans and decreasing the use of restrictive practices.


The project outputs will contribute to a national approach to training and competency development and outcome measurement and continuous improvement that underpins high-quality, consistent and safe behaviour support practices.

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