Dr Genevieve Johnson and Melo Kalemkeridid show how visual techniques can be incorporated into research, including Photovoice to promote inclusive research #vdc2022 #scopesust

Georgia Burn from Scope at the VDC2022 calls for us to ensure our community is communication accessible and shows us how #VDC2022 #scopeaust

Dougie Herd at the VDC2022 calls the NDIS to account - give the NDIS back to people with disability #VDC2022 #scopeaust

We're looking for a Senior Research Fellow to come and work with the Scope-University of Melbourne Partnership Scope Faculty of Arts go.unimelb.edu.au/p9fe

Fantastic week at Hobart for 40th Anniversary of Speak Out - self advocacy for people with intellectual disability - Minister Shorten spoke this am … very reassuring #SpkOutConf22

It’s great to have a UN day celebrating disabled people, but let’s at least make the theme accessible: “Transformative solutions for inclusive development: the role of innovation in fuelling an accessible and equitable world“. What a load of academic wank - & I’m an academic!

Disability Pride: Raising expectations on the International Day of Persons with Disabilities - a piece from Senator Jordon Steele-John and me including a link to his fantastic keynote address at the recent Virtual Disability Conference #IDPWD Scope Faculty of Arts about.unimelb.edu.au/__data/assets/…

New paper with Dr Eli Cohn (lead author) and Keith R. McVilly “Echolalia as defined by parent communication partners” - important to invite stakeholder voices into our research and professional spaces. 🔬🔗: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/23…

Our report for @DRC_AU challenges idea that inclusion is limited to places & spaces and calls for changes in policy, practice and the values of our community so that people with disability feel welcome and safe, and where their voice is heard, respected and acted upon University of Melbourne

Need to raise the bar. so many issues need to be better addressed. It should never be left to the individual to try to make it work. theage.com.au/lifestyle/heal… Keith R. McVilly too much ignored #UniversalDesign at end of story The Age must do better here. Know what it really means 1/3

What is “a good reproductive outcome” code for? Is The Drum panel discussing eugenics? #TheDrum

Congratulations Maree Maxfield #unimelb winner of #GraduateWomenVictoria Capicchiano Bursary winner 2023 Melbourne Disability Institute Melbourne Social Equity Institute Melbourne School of Population and Global Health

New Article!! We took a critical look into literature on disability inclusion - and only 30% of pubs actually involved talking to people with disability. Not good. Open access, have a look! Thanks to Keith R. McVilly Matthew Harrison 🔬+🕹+🧠 Victor Sojo Anna Genat doi.org/10.1111/jppi.1…

We need community visitors for every group home in Australia #4corners Craig Wallace Sam Connor @billshortenmp

How do disability service providers get away with practices we saw on 4 Corners? My report to the Vic govt in 2009 accepted in full recommendations that prone restraint was deadly and regulations were in force. ABC News abc730 ABC The Drum

Commissioner Dan Stubbs released a public statement calling for a national worker registration scheme in advance of the @DRC_AU Report. The media release is available to read on our website - vdwc.vic.gov.au/about/news-res… #SaferStrongerSector #TheSafeChoice

Just Vote YES. If we can’t include First Nations Peoples, what hope for people with disability?#VoteYes #VoteYES23Australia #VoteYesAustralia

Victorian Disability Worker Commissioner calls for regulators and services to work together to prevent abuse and neglect of people with disability Victorian Disability Worker Commission

NDIS provider accused of excessive use of force against people with disabilities abc.net.au/news/2024-05-0…

Young people with intellectual disability in the justice system deserve better - Danny Tran at the ABC writes: abc.net.au/news/2024-10-1…