Virtual Disability Conference 2024: New Frontiers

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Stream 2 - Session 1 - Building a capable and safe workforce

Stream 2

Stream 2

11:20 am

25 September 2024

Concurrent Room 1

Streams

Building a capable and safe workforce

Session Description

Stream chair: Emily Forrest
Stream co-chair: Meredith Prain

Session Chairs

Emily Forrest

National Disability Services (NDS)

Meredith Prain

National Head of Research and Centre of Excellence – Deafblind

Able Australia

Session Program

11:20 am

Building Employer Confidence to recruit and retain employees with communication disability and low literacy.

Jacob Matthew - Communication Access Assessor - Scope, Katie Lyon - Grants & Service Innovation Manager - Scope

11:45 am

Accessibility and inclusion in emerging startups

Belle Tukin - The Achieve Foundation

12:10 pm

Positive Behaviour Support Pathway: A practice framework that prioritises human rights

Alinka Fisher - Senior Lecturer - Flinders University

12:35 pm

Everyday steps to address everyday harm against people with disability

Sally Robinson - Professor Disability and Community Inclusion - Flinders University

1:00 pm

Innovative Online Training for Positive Behaviour Support: Enhancing Workforce Capability in the NDIS Framework

Nick Hagiliassis - Director, Consultant Psychologist, Specialist Behaviour Support Practitioner - Trellis Australia, Alex Kalff - Speech Pathologist, Director - Trellis Australia, Aoife McCann - Psychologist, Director - Trellis Australia, Mark Di Marco - Psychologist, Director - Trellis Australia

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