Programme

The conference programme will run from 8:20am Wednesday 7 November through to approximately 5:00pm on Friday 9 November 2012.

A pre-conference workshop will be held on Tuesday 6 November. Further information about workshops is available here.

Please click here to view the final conference programme (pdf, 514KB).

Please see the documents below for each day's conference abstracts:

ASID Awards

The following Awards were presented during the ASID 2012 Conference.

FELLOW OF ASID

In recognition of exceptional and significant contribution to the field of intellectual disability.

PROFESSOR NICK LENNOX

(MBBS, BMEDSC, DIPOBST, FRACGP)

Director of the Centre for Intellectual and Developmental Disability

The School of Population Health

University of Queensland

For his contribution across several fields, including:

ASID RESEARCH GRANT ($5000)

Award to:

DR NATHAN J WILSON

Lecturer (Teaching and Research)

Faculty of Health Sciences

University of Sydney

Sydney, NSW

and

DR PATSIE FRAWLEY

Research Fellow

Living with Disabilities Research Group

School of Allied Health

La Trobe University

Melbourne, Victoria

For proposal: "Sexuality during Transition to Adulthood: framing the tension between unwanted risks and promoting a healthy sexuality".

Conference Theme

The conference theme is Unity in Diversity: different perspectives, common purpose.

The theme acknowledges:

The rich diversity of perspectives that contribute to our shared knowledge base – philosophies and values, cultural diversity related to ethnicity, place in the lifespan, gender, as well as different consumer perspectives
A desire across Australasia to move from splintered and uncoordinated support frameworks to a more integrated approach to individuals, family and social groups, and communities.

Programme Abbreviations

TOPIC	ABBREVIATION
Bioethics	Bioethics
Legal issues and developments in forensics	Forensics
Cultural and social contexts	Cultural
Values into practice	Values
Health and wellbeing across the lifespan	Health