The learning, compliance, and psychological costs of applying for the Disability Support Pension

Australia is implementing an ambitious new approach to individualised disability support based on a social insurance model. In a world first, the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) is funded through a levy on income and general taxation and gives Australians with disability an entitlement to social service support. This chapter describes the NDIS approach and implementation so far and summarises concerns and challenges about the NDIS discussed in the literature. It uses data from an action research project to inform feasibility questions about how people find out about and receive the individualised support they need. The chapter highlights a basic gap in people’s familiarity with what individualised support is, how it works and how they might benefit from the new approach. A policy implication is that, with the expansion of individualised support, the public is likely to need various opportunities and forms of information sharing, to explore and learn from each other about what the new approach is and what its possibilities are.

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Maawandoonan: early childhood disability support services in Constance Lake First Nation

10.32920/ryerson.14654955 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Nicole Ineese-Nash

Keyword(s):

Early Childhood ◽

Support Services ◽

Service System ◽

First Nation ◽

Childhood Disability ◽

Northern Ontario ◽

Disability Support Services ◽

Disability Theory ◽

Disability Support ◽

The Impact

This paper details an institutional ethnography conducted in Constance Lake First Nation, a rural Oji-Cree community in northern Ontario, Canada. The study is a part of a larger project called the Inclusive Early Childhood Service System Project, which is partnered with several municipalities and service organizations in four communities across Ontario. The current project examined six family narratives of accessing disability support services for young children. The project seeks to understand how the service system functions from the perspective of families, and the impact of institutional interactions on families within the service system. Employing critical disability theory and Indigenous perspectives of child development, the study seeks to develop a culturally-based conceptualization of disability support for Indigenous children with disabilities or gifts.

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Disability

Policy Quarterly ◽

10.26686/pq.v17i1.6732 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 17 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Sam Murray ◽

Roger Loveless

Keyword(s):

Living Standards ◽

Development Model ◽

Structural Factors ◽

Publicly Funded ◽

Structural Barriers ◽

Disability And Health ◽

Disabled People ◽

Government Decision ◽

Wide Range ◽

Disability Support

Disabled people and their whänau have poorer outcomes across a wide range of wellbeing and living standards measures.1 Yet disability analysis does not appear to be well integrated into government decision making on wellbeing. This article builds a framework for understanding disability in a wellbeing context by using the Treasury’s Living Standards Framework and Sophie Mitra’s human development model for disability and health. One of the most important aspects of Mitra’s model is the interaction between resources and structural factors. Structural factors, such as an inaccessible built environment, force disabled people to spend more resources to get the same outcomes as nondisabled people. Publicly funded disability support is essential to counteract these structural factors. We also need to improve the usability of the four capitals for disabled people and their whänau to reduce these structural barriers.

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How Involved Should They Be? Students with ASD in Postsecondary Settings and Their Family Members

The Qualitative Report ◽

10.46743/2160-3715/2018.3149 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Bryan Dallas ◽

Julie Ramisch ◽

Alyssa Ashmore

Keyword(s):

Family Member ◽

Family Members ◽

Autism Spectrum ◽

Postsecondary Students ◽

Positive Outcomes ◽

Mixed Methods Approach ◽

Disability Support ◽

Students With Autism ◽

Family Member Involvement ◽

Member Involvement

We investigated the need for family member involvement for students with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) in postsecondary settings. We also looked at the perceived needed and fulfilled roles of family members and if family member involvement resulted in positive outcomes for postsecondary students with ASD. We surveyed 211 postsecondary Disability Support Professionals (DSPs) through the AHEAD organization. Using a mixed methods approach including inductive content analysis, results primarily indicated that there is a need for family members to be involved non-academically with students with ASD. We discuss roles that DSPs think family members should fulfill versus roles that DSPs think that family members are actually fulfilling. It is apparent that DSPs think family member involvement is important but must be balanced with increasing the independence of students with ASD while enrolled in school.

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Mutual Obligation, Participation and Popularity: Social Security Reform in Australia

Journal of Social Policy ◽

10.1017/s0047279402006499 ◽

2002 ◽

Vol 31 (1) ◽

pp. 21-38 ◽

Cited By ~ 14

Author(s):

PETER SAUNDERS

Keyword(s):

Social Security ◽

Reference Group ◽

Social Security Reform ◽

Income Support ◽

Australian Government ◽

Reform Agenda ◽

Disability Support ◽

Mutual Obligation ◽

The Unemployed

Mutual obligation – the idea that those who receive assistance in times of need should be required to ‘give something back’ – is the driving force behind the current social security reform agenda in Australia. After more than a decade of intense reform, the Australian Government is considering a reform blueprint based on the recommendations of a Welfare Reform Reference Group. These include proposals to increase mutual obligation requirements on the unemployed and that sole parents and disability support pensioners should be required to demonstrate some form of social or economic participation in return for receiving income support. Results from a national survey of public opinion are used to explore community views on a range of mutual obligation requirements for the unemployed. The analysis indicates that there is support for mutual obligation for the young and long-term unemployed, but not for others, such as the older unemployed, those caring for young children and those with a disability. Most people also see mutual obligation as implying action on the part of government to reduce unemployment and ease the plight of the unemployed.

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Impacts of genomics on the health and social costs of intellectual disability

Journal of Medical Genetics ◽

10.1136/jmedgenet-2019-106445 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 57 (7) ◽

pp. 479-486 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Brett Doble ◽

Deborah Schofield ◽

Carey-Anne Evans ◽

Tudor Groza ◽

John S Mattick ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Intellectual Disability ◽

Knowledge Bases ◽

Social Costs ◽

Reference List ◽

Monogenic Disorders ◽

Whole Exome ◽

Literature Searches ◽

Disability Support ◽

Common Causes ◽

Social Expenditures

BackgroundThis study provides an integrated assessment of the economic and social impacts of genomic sequencing for the detection of monogenic disorders resulting in intellectual disability (ID).MethodsMultiple knowledge bases were cross-referenced and analysed to compile a reference list of monogenic disorders associated with ID. Multiple literature searches were used to quantify the health and social costs for the care of people with ID. Health and social expenditures and the current cost of whole-exome sequencing and whole-genome sequencing were quantified in relation to the more common causes of ID and their impact on lifespan.ResultsOn average, individuals with ID incur annual costs in terms of health costs, disability support, lost income and other social costs of US$172 000, accumulating to many millions of dollars over a lifetime.ConclusionThe diagnosis of monogenic disorders through genomic testing provides the opportunity to improve the diagnosis and management, and to reduce the costs of ID through informed reproductive decisions, reductions in unproductive diagnostic tests and increasingly targeted therapies.

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College disability support offices as advertisements: A multimodal discourse analysis

Discourse Studies ◽

10.1177/1461445620966921 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 146144562096692

Author(s):

So Yoon Kim

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

Discourse Analysis ◽

Students With Disabilities ◽

Higher Education Institutions ◽

Genre Analysis ◽

Multimodal Discourse Analysis ◽

College Community ◽

Multimodal Discourse ◽

Disability Support ◽

Semiotic Resources

This study examined the disability support offices (DSOs) websites of twelve US higher education institutions (HEIs) anchored in multimodal discourse analysis and genre analysis to examine how semiotic resources are deployed to describe DSO services on their websites and to determine the discursive functions of advertisement they perform. The DSO websites were within four clicks from HEI homepages but had inconsistent navigation paths, making it difficult to reach DSO websites. DSO websites were foregrounding promoting and branding the institutions rather than presenting the information about the services offered. This is achieved by using multimodal promotional rhetoric such as: (a) situating accessibility as central commodifiable attribute, (b) promoting the value of accessibility, (c) establishing the superiority of the institution, (d) constructing images of students with disabilities as empowered but dependent upon the DSO, and (e) situating students within a college community. Implications for DSO websites functioning as advertisements are also discussed.

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