Plain Language Abstract 

This presentation is about communication. There are more than a million people with a communication disability in Australia. Two out of every five people have difficulties with reading and writing. 

These people can have difficulty getting and keeping jobs. 

We worked with five big employers to improve the inclusion of people with communication disabilities and low literacy. 

We worked together to understand problems. We made resources and training. 

We hope the employers will be more skillful and confident to employ and support people with communication disabilities and low literacy. 

This presentation is about a new business. Sometimes a new business is called a startup.

We decided that we wanted people with disability included in all parts of the small business. We wanted our business to be accessible.

We will tell you how we included people with disability into all parts of the business.

We asked people in the business what they thought/ We asked people who used our service what they thought.

We learnt about what worked, didn’t work, and new ways to do things to have disability inclusion.

This presentation is about a new idea for supporting people who have behaviours of concern.

The idea is called the Positive Behaviour Support Pathway or the PBS-P.

We read lots of information about Positive Behaviour Support. We talked to people with disabilities who had Positive Behaviour Support. We talked to people who did Positive Behaviour Support.

We read the Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse and Neglect of People with Disability, and rules of human rights.

We used all this knowledge to write the PBS-P. We think it will help people with disability in Australia.

This presentation is about harm. Harm is a type of hurt. 

We did a project on harm. 

Sometimes people with intellectual disability feel harm with their disability support workers.

We talked to 36 pairs of people with intellectual disability and one of their support workers.

They talked about harm. They talked about preventing harm. They talked checking feelings. They talked about fixing harm.

We learnt that there are things that can improve disability support workers. There are things that services can do to change harm for people with disability.

Plain Language Abstract 

This presentation is about Positive Behaviour Support. 

Some people with disabilities have behaviours of concern. Positive Behaviour Support practitioners are people who are trained to support people with behaviours of concern. 

Positive Behaviour Support practitioners write a plan to help people. Sometimes these plans are really good. Sometimes they are not good enough. 

We ran a training course for 265 Positive Behaviour Support Practitioners. The course took eight weeks to finish. The people who did the training said it was good. 

The plans that they wrote after the training improved. 

Better Positive Behaviour Support practitioners will help people with disabilities have better lives.