GSDD5013 Community Living

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This unit provides students with an understanding of contemporary issues in provision of community living services to people with a developmental disability. Students will be able to demonstrate knowledge, skills, attitudes and beliefs relevant to managing and evaluating community living services. Students will become familiar with and critically analyse scholarly research and practice, and apply this knowledge to current and developing trends in multidisciplinary practice in the field of community living. By doing so they will acquire the evidence-based knowledge needed to become leaders in the developmental disability field.

This unit provides students with an understanding of contemporary issues in provision of community living services to people with a developmental disability. The unit will be of most benefit to those students who have some experience of developmental disability services.

Roger J. Stancliffe Ph.D. FAAIDD is a researcher in the developmental disability field with a special interest in community living. He is Associate Professor of Disability Studies at The University of Sydney, Faculty of Health Sciences. He also works as a consultant Research Associate with the Research and Training Center on Community Living at the University of Minnesota (USA). He was the lead investigator in many Australian research and evaluation projects on deinstitutionalisation and community living during his time as a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Developmental Disability Studies (1997-2007) in Sydney. Previously, he has worked in the developmental disability field as a Research Fellow and a Research Associate at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, as a member of the NSW Guardianship Tribunal, as a consultant, as a manager of a community living service and as a psychologist. His research interests include choice, self-determination, community living, Active Support, individual planning, deinstitutionalisation, and cost effect-effectiveness of services. He is a member Office of the Protective Commissioner/ Office of the Public Guardian Advisory Council, Editor of the Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability, and a Consulting Editor to four other international research journals on intellectual disability. In 2002 he was appointed as a Fellow of the American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (AAIDD).