48th Annual Australasian Society for Intellectual Disability Conference
 
Keynotes Include:
 
 Minister for Disability Services address to be confirmed
 
 
 
 
 
 Robert Strike and Sarah Butler
Self Advocacy Sydney
"Our time:  Lived experience"


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Angela Novak Amado PhD
University of Minnesota’s Institute on Community Integration 
"Person-centred practices and inclusion"
 
 
 
 
  
Michael Wehmeyer PhD
Professor of Special Education, University of Kansas, USA
"Transition to adulthood"
 
 
 
 
Sue Read PhD
Professor of Learning Disability Nursing,Head of Research, School of Nursing & Midwifery, Keele University 
"Journeys without maps:  A loss and intellectual disability perspective" 
 
 
Eric Emerson PhD
Professor of Disability & Health Research at the Centre for Disability Research, Lancaster University, UK and Co-Director of the English specialist Public Health Observatory on intellectual disabilities. Professor of Disability Population Health at the Centre for Disability Research and Policy at the University of Sydney.  
"Conceptualising and measuring outcomes" 
 
Keith McVilly PhD
Associate Professor Keith R. McVilly B.A., Grad. Dip. Psych., M.Psych (Clinical), PhD, MAPS, MCClP
Principal Research Fellow, School of Psychology, Deakin University, Australia 
"Positive Behaviour Support - consolidation and moving forward" 
 
  
Trevor Parmenter AM PhD 
Professor Emeritus in Sydney Medical School, and Honorary Professor Faculty of Education & Social Work and Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Sydney. Adjunct Professor, School of Rural Medicine, University of New England 
"The study of intellectual disability: Have we been too introspective?"
 

 
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