Listening to those rarely heard

This video is part of a training package developed for a group of people who know someone with a severe to profound intellectual disability well.

It is designed to focus around someone who may be facing a decision, either now, or into the future. Embedded within this package is a framework used to guide supporters through a process of supported decision making with people with Severe to Profound Intellectual Disabilities (Watson, 2010).
 
The package has been developed by Jo Watson and Rhonda Joseph from Scope Victoria, Australia and has been funded by the Victorian Department of Human Services (Disability Services).

It has been filmed, scripted and directed by McClure Multimedia. The package consists of a PowerPoint presentation (Watson & Joseph, 2011) which includes facilitators notes, this training video (Watson & Joseph, 2011) and a workshop booklet.

The package has been piloted over 6 months with various families, and is now published. It can be obtained from Scope. For more information please contact: Jo Watson, Research Fellow at: jwatson@scopevic.org.au.

Watch the Listening to those rarely heard video on Vimeo.

What people have said about this resource

"What an amazing piece of work this resource pack is. I feel it will definitely benefit the lives of people we work alongside as we are hoping to put a training programme together around the resource pack you sent us and support staff to gain more knowledge and understanding about how supporting individuals to be involved in the decision making process. This fits in with the aims of our project brilliantly. Well done and thank you so much for sharing this with us. I look forward to viewing future work. All the very best."
Lorna Smith
Specialist Advocacy Worker
People First Independent Advocacy
Voices of the Voiceless
United Kingdom
 
"It’s a wonderful resource- well done again SCOPE!"
Felicity Burke
Practice Leader Speech Pathology
Office of the Senior Practitioner
Ageing Disability and Home Care,
NSW, Australia

"I think this will be a really useful resource and spark lots of thinking in many of the staff we work with!"
Harmony Turnbull
Regional Senior Speech Pathologist (Grade 4)
Ageing, Disability and Home Care
NSW, Australia