Events
2022
International perspectives on supported decision making
The CPP SIRG is hosting a session as part of the 2022 IASSIDD Virtual Conference.
This webinar brings together key socio-legal researchers to discuss the varying international progress of law reform to recognise supported decision making and highlight the complexities of practice and policy change. Through this review of progress to further supported decision making, the discussion will draw out issues common to all groups of people with cognitive disability and those unique to people with intellectual disability.
Chairing by Professor Christine Bigby who has led a multi-disciplinary program of research about the policy and practice of supported decision making at the Living with Disability Research Centre, La Trobe University, in Australia.
- Professor Terry Carney, Emeritus Professor of Law from the University of Sydney:
‘Where does supported decision making sit in relation to existing services, guardianship and other arrangements?’
- Associate Professor Shih-Ning Then, Australian Centre for Health Law Research at Queensland University of Technology:
‘Supported decision-making: Legal reform and practice.’
- Prof Christine Bigby, Living with Disability Research Centre, La Trobe University:
‘Implementing the La Trobe Support for Decision Making Practice Framework in different settings.’
2019
The CPP SIRG has received a high number of abstracts for IASSIDD’s 16th World Congress which takes place in Glasgow, Scotland from 6-9th August 2019. CPP will host its General Meeting during the Congress and welcomes all, whether or not you are CPP members. Details of CPP presentations, roundtables and symposium will be released in due course when the programme is finalized. We look forward to meeting you there.
2018
IASSIDD’s 5th European Congress was hosted in Athens, Greece from 17-20th July 2018. A total of 68 abstracts were approved in the CPP track which examined a wide range of issues including service systems, enhancing professional practice, adult life, family supports, ageing supports, skill developments, decision making, autism spectrum disorder, coercive methods, nursing practices and deinstitutionalisation. Roundtables were delivered on practice leadership, facilitating the development of community-based practices in Europe, and challenging in mapping the situation of people with ID in Europe.
Later in the year, a Discussions in Disability Seminar was hosted on ‘Assisted Decision Making’, in Dublin on 27 August 2018 in a collaboration between IASSIDD CPP and the UCD Centre for Disability Studies. This seminar explored developments in assisted decision making, advocacy for those with complex support needs and legislation on capacity, safeguarding and consent.
2017
CPP SIRG contributed to IASSIDD’s Health SIRG conference hosted in Belfast from 19-20 June 2017, entitled “Bridging the gap: from evidence to improved health for persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities”. The CPP element addressed measures to improve access to health for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
2016
IASSIDD’s 15th World Congress was hosted in Melbourne, Australia from 15-19 August 2016. CPP abstracts reflected a global reach describing disability services from Azerbaijan, Australia, United States and New Zealand to name a few. Distinct symposia, taking an in-depth look at key issues in comparative policy and practice focused on people with ID with high support needs, collaborations between research and practice, quality of life outcomes, culture in group homes, personalization and decision making.
Later in the year, CPP hosted a joint roundtable with IASSIDD’s QOL SIRG in Zagreb, Croatia from October 20-21, 2016. This roundtable included presentations on Disability Issues in the Community, Support for People with Disabilities, Family Quality of Life and Measurement Issues in Quality of Life. Linked with an IASSIDD Academy event on Inclusive Education and Quality of Life across the lifespan, the roundtable aimed to examine issues of policy and practice impacting on individuals’ quality of life. This roundtable had a particular focus on the movement of services from congregated to community living.
2014
IASSIDD’s 4th European Congress, Pathways to Inclusion, was hosted in Vienna, Austria from 14th – 17th July 2014. The Comparative Policy and Practice SIRG was well represented with 111 abstracts accepted in the Living in the Community track. Symposia were presented on a range of topics including citizenship, technology, supporting families, support needs, quality of life, self-advocacy, community living, social inclusion. Roundtables were hosted on the role of ideology in service developments and on efforts to enhance social inclusion in the neighbourhood.
2013
Developing community based support for people with intellectual disability: Working in partnership to achieve change
This conference will be organised jointly by the IASSIDD Special Interest Research Group on Comparative Policy and Practice and Charles University Prague as part of the QUALI-TYDES Czech Research Foundation project (No. P407/11).
Conference support and organisation by IASSID and SPMP
- Date: Friday 15th November 2013 (Please note change of date from the original announcement due to venue restrictions)
- Venue: Hotel Olsanka, Prague, Czech Republic
SIRG Roundtable Saturday 16th November 2013: The Prague conference will be followed by a Comparative Policy and Practice Special Interest Research group roundtable on Saturday 16th November 09 30 til 1400. The primary purpose of this meeting will be to discuss the content of the papers for the Special Issue on Policies for a Good Life in the Community and to discuss future activities of the SIRG. A brief general meeting will also be held. Further infromation on the programme will be made available here soon.
2012
At the IASSIDD World Congress in Halifax, we had a joint discussion with members of the Quality of Life and Ageing SIRGs. This discussion focused on draft papers prepared and circulated prior to the event by Ivan Brown, Chris Bigby, David Felce and Julie Beadle-Brown and related to the Policies for a good Life in the Community programme of work that had initially been agreed in Rome and then advance at a symposium discussion held in Iceland at the NNDR Conference. The papers focused on:
- Rekindling the ideological drive
- Establishing the evidence base for models of community based provision
- Mapping the situation for people with Intellectual Disabilities: building on the DECLOC report,
- Unraveling the cost effectiveness discourse
Prior to the event, SIRG members helped to complete templates for their countries about the situation of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Attendance at the discussion was good and the discussion was very fruitful and will be used to revise the papers with the aim of compiling a special issue for a journal.