Disability: Working in disability

The second edition of The Disability Support Worker meets the needs of people who adopt a person-centred approach in their work. The wholly Australian text now includes the introduction of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS), and other required reforms consistent with the United Nations convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities. This text supports training and skills development for the CHC43115 Certificate IV in Disability, and Disability electives of the CHC33015 Certificate III in Individual Support. Revisions reflect changes to the training package, particularly upgrading competencies dealing with individualised support, empowerment and facilitation consistent with a strengths-based approach.

This series of programs brings together people with a great deal of personal and professional experience to discuss, argue and inform us about three important stages of transition. Young children with disability and their transition to school; adults who have acquired a disability later in life and their re-adjustment back into society; students with disability who are transitioning to post-school destinations. The series highlights some of the challenges people with disability face today as they navigate their way through society.

The main focus of the DVD is to be proactive, rather than reactive. We do this by preventing the behaviour from happening in the first place rather than having to pick up the pieces after the behaviour. With positive programming, we do look at the behaviour, we do look at the individual, but we now look at lifestyle changes using a holistic approach. However, the DVD is of a general nature and can be used with people who have a disability and non-disabled, and both for children and adults.