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Community of Practice – Inclusive University for People With Intellectual Disability

|| Join our First Zoom Meeting! || CDS at USyd in collaboration with Flinders University are establishing a community of practice on Inclusive University for people with intellectual disability. || […]

Artist Clare Hooper shares her beautiful artwork with CDS

Wonderful to have artist Clare Hooper call into the CDS offices to drop off her beautiful artwork to our Executive Director Mary-Ann O’Donovan! We will use the artwork on our […]

Webinar on recent publication with AHURI Individual Supported Living arrangements for adults with intellectual disabilities and high support needs

CDS recently cowrote a report for AHURI on Individual Supported Living arrangements for adults with intellectual disabilities and high support needs, click here to access the report. CDS are pleased […]

Special Commentary: Celebrating International Day of People with Disability

A/Prof Mary-Ann O’Donovan, Associate Professor and Executive Director, Center for Disability Studies (CDS), the University of Sydney. Debashis Sarker, Lead, Inclusive Education, Center for Disability Studies (CDS), the University of […]

Open Letter to The Hon Mr Brad Hazzard MP – Minister for Health and Medical Research about Specialist Clinical Services for People with Intellectual Disability

Since 1998, Centre for Disability Studies (CDS) has hosted the Developmental Disability Health Unit (DDHU), which has operated a statewide clinic for adolescents and adults with an intellectual or developmental disability.  The […]

IRN Paper Published in the Special Edition of Social Sciences Edited by Patricia O’Brien

Alongside our research team, the Inclusive Research Network have recently been published in the special issue of Social Sciences edited by Patricia O’Brien. The Inclusive Research Network (IRN) at CDS […]

CDS Clinical Professor and Senior Researcher Vivienne Riches Awarded Visiting Professorship in Singapore

Recently, the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NIE, NTU, Singapore) established the Lien Ying Chow Professorship in Education. The first awardee is Clinical Professor Vivienne Riches who […]

uni 2 beyond 2022 updates

The uni 2 beyond program is currently halfway through Semester 1, 2022. This year, the program has welcomed 18 students, the program’s largest cohort yet. Students started class in February, […]

Inclusive employment for people with intellectual disabilities: what more needs to be done?

  Access to employment is one of the key areas that could ensure inclusion and empowerment of people with disabilities particularly for people with intellectual disabilities. But people with intellectual […]

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