NDIS providers, allied healthcare professionals, and educators supporting people with disability need to know about supported decision-making to do their jobs competently.
Fortunately, a wealth of excellent free resources are available to get informed about supported decision-making, thanks in large part to the generous work of people with disability, disability advocates, academics, and government and not-for-profit organisations.
In this post, I highlight and share some of the best free resources I’ve come across while learning about legal capacity and supported decision-making so that we can assist our clients to make and communicate their own decisions.
“Deciding with Support” is a toolkit designed with and for people with disability as supported decision makers. Made by a team of people with disability, academics at Flinders University, @CIDvoice, disability advocates, and others, it is designed to help people make decisions about their behaviour support plans: https://decidingwithsupport.flinders.edu.au/
Thanks very much to Dr Jo Watson for highlighting these two additional resources:
This article also appears in a recent issue of Banter Booster, our weekly round up of the best speech pathology ideas and practice tips for busy speech pathologists, providers, speech pathology students, teachers and other interested readers.
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Hi there, I’m David Kinnane.
Principal Speech Pathologist, Banter Speech & Language
Our talented team of certified practising speech pathologists provide unhurried, personalised and evidence-based speech pathology care to children and adults in the Inner West of Sydney and beyond, both in our clinic and via telehealth.
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