Links to External Training Resources
To nominate a link to be listed here,
contact: Judith McKenzie
Judith.mckenzie@uct.ac.za
Parents with IDD
This very comprehensive list of resources, on the site of the School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol, UK, provides helpful and practical resources for understanding parents with disabilities and best practices of support.
The Parenting Research Centre in Australia provides several useful links for professionals supporting parents with intellectual disabilities.
This professional magazine is from 2013, so it is a bit dated, but it provides some sound information. Center for Advanced Studies in Child Welfare, School of Social Work, University of Minnesota. Some further resources on their webpage: https://cascw.umn.edu/portfolio_tags/parental-disability/
IASSIDD-Generated Training Resources
To nominate a link to be listed here
contact: Michael Arthur-Kelly
michael.arthur-kelly@newcastle.edu.au
Parents with IDD
Resource 1
Families
Families
This is a link to resources that have been used in workshops on profound intellectual and multiple disability
Individual Quality of Life
The website is about training, research and counseling activities on disability to improve their quality of life and self –determination. The website is in Spanish and has many useful and free resources.
The website is in Dutch and is focused on promoting quality of life and guaranteeing human rights of people who are in vulnerable situations.
Individual Quality of Life
Family Quality of Life
The site is a resource on family quality of life, a conceptualization that consists in five domains: (1) family interaction (2) parenting (3) emotional well-being (4) physical/material well being and (5) supports for family member with a disability.
Resources on the quality of life of families who have one or more members with an intellectual or developmental disability. The project was initiated in 2000 by researchers from Australia, Canada, and Israel. Instrument is available in several languages.
September 10, 2020
Presentation by Ivan Brown to: Continuing Professional Development, Department of Psychiatry, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada, September 10, 2020
Co-hosted by: IASSIDD Academy and the Quality of Life Special Interest Research Group
Family Quality of Life
Quality of Life Concepts
Quality of Life Concepts
The International Association for the Scientific Study of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (IASSIDD) is the first and only world-wide group dedicated to the scientific study of intellectual disability.
Founded in 1964 as the International Association for the Scientific Study of Mental Deficiency, IASSIDD is an international, interdisciplinary and scientific non-governmental organization which promotes worldwide research and exchange of information on intellectual disabilities.
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