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Activities for Everyone - Art and Craft By Mandy Williams
This activity book provides practical, easy to follow instructions for 20 creative activities. Activity analysis provides the reader with the opportunity to tailor each step of the activity to suit an individual's skills and preferences. There are plenty of tips, easy to make equipment, and associated activity ideas that further extend the number of activities provided in the book.
Price: $60.00
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Beyond Speech Alone: Guidelines for Practioners providing counselling services to clients with disabilities and complex communication needs
Beyond Speech Alone, PDF Format (26 pages, 604KB)
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Disability Speak
This publication has been created by Scope as a guide for those communicating with people who have disabilities.Contact the Scope Information Centre for a print copy or download the PDF version
Disability Speak, PDF format (8 pages, 204KB).
Disability Speak, Text format (8 pages, 14 KB).

Easy Relaxation
A relaxation program on compact disc designed specifically for the needs of people with disabilities.
Price: $22.30 (GST included)

Enhancing Self-Esteem / Nick Hagiliassis and Hrepsime Gulbenkoglu
Maintaining healthy levels of self-esteem is key to leading a positive and fulfilled life, but for many people with a disability it can be difficult when faced with the additional challenges they encounter. Negative messages, low expectations, reduced opportunities and discrimination are all facts of life for a large number of people, and these factors can have a serious impact on the development of self-esteem.
Available from Jessica Kingsley Publishers

Harness Safety
Scope has recently coordinated a Victorian-wide harness safety working group at the request of Department of Human Services.
The group has developed guidelines for prescribers and an information brochure for harness users and those who support them. available for download

Healthy mouths - How to look after your oral health
This is an Easy English summary of the book “A Guide for Carers: Assisting Clients with Oral Health Care”, 2008
available for download

It's My Money - So What's Different? - Conference on Individualised Funding
13 November 2007
Further information and downloads of presentations

The Living History Project
It is now more than 20 years since the International Year for Disabled Persons (IYDP 1981), a year that promised a social revolution for people with disabilities. So, what has happened in that period and what has been achieved in Victoria since that time?
Availalbe in PDF, Audio formats or request a print copy.

More than my child’s disability… A study of family-centred practices and family experiences of Scope early childhood intervention services and supports. (2004)
This research report provides an excellent overview of current research methods to determine levels of family centred practice in Early Intervention Services. By using an adaptation of the Measure of Processes of Care tool, the Scope research also documents the expectations and experiences of parents using Scope services. This is one of the few published benchmarks of Family Centred Practice in early intervention in disability in Australia. This report is a valuable reference tool for Early Intervention Service providers and researchers
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More than my child’s disability..., PDF format (224 pages, 1,368KB)
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"More than my child’s disability…” A comprehensive literature review about family-centred practice and family experiences of early childhood intervention services / Tim Moore and Helen Larkin. (2005).
This text is an invaluable reference guide to Family Centred Practice. In five sections, it offers a clear and concise discussion of the principles and practices of Family Centred Practice; its impacts; the experiences of families; and the focus of services and supports families receive within this model. This is an excellent practice guide for students and
practitioners in a wide range of health and community service disciplines, as well as agencies and families.
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"More than my child" disability" a literature review , PDF Format (80 pages, 2,707KB)
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Seeing is believing: changing attitudes to disability.
A review of disability awareness programs in Victoria and ways to progress outcome measurement for attitude change. Scope, 2007
Download full report in PDF Format
Seeing is believing (53 pages, 793 KB)

"Sensory Stimulation: Sensory-Focused Activities for People with Physical and Multiple Disabilities"
By Susan Fowler
This photocopiable resource provides the reader with a step-by-step approach to organising a sensory stimulation programme for carers and other professionals working with people with physical, multiple or complex disabilities. Importantly, it also presents information on sensory stimulation within a framework that embraces the person’s daily environment. Activity ideas are based around food, drink, personal and household care and crafts and are kept simple so they can be slotted into daily routine with minimum disruption. Assessment forms and checklists will help carers and support staff to monitor and understand their clients’ needs and progress.
Available from Jessica Kingsley Publishers
http://www.jkp.com/catalogue/book.php/isbn/9781843104551

Supporting People With Disabilities Coping With Grief And Loss: An Easy-To-Read Booklet
The aim of this booklet is:
To provide people with disabilities and their support people with an overview and an understanding of the grief process
To highlight the range of needs of people with disabilities who may be grieving
To provide effective strategies for supporting people with disabilities in dealing with grief and loss

This booklet is organised in two sections. The first section has been developed for people with disabilities themselves, written in easy English and using pictures. This section provides information about grief and loss, and strategies for dealing with grief, in an easy-to-read format.
The second section has been developed for people who support people with disabilities to deal with grief and loss. They are written as guidelines that may be helpful to families and service providers who wish to actively assist the grieving person with disability.
Supporting People With Disabilities Coping With Grief And Loss, PDF Format (40 pages,1079 KB)

ECAPSS newsletter - Enhancing communication and participation through sensory stimulation
This newsletter is published three times a year. It contains sensory-focused articles, resources, training and networking opportunities that can enhance communication and participation.
Further information

Too little, too late
Wait times and cost burden for people with a disability in seeking equipment funding in Victoria
by Erin Wilson, Jeffrey Wong and Jo Goodridge, 2006
Too little, too late PDF format (37 pages, 294KB)

Communication

The Triple C - Checklist of Communication Competencies
By Karen Bloomberg and Denise West - The Triple C is a screening checklist designed for use in assessing the communication skills of adolescents and adults who have severe or profound disabilities.
The package includes a manual, 10 checklist forms and a teaching video. The video presents scenarios that highlight the skills and abilities seen in the first six stages of communication development. The manual includes information on communication stages, instructions on how to score the checklist and 10 checklist forms.
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InterAACtion Strategies for Intentional and Unintentional Communicators
The InterACCtion package is the sequel to the Triple C - Checklist of Communication Competencies. The package is composed of a manual and training video. It is designed for people who work with adults who have complex communication needs. These adults have little or no functional speech and limited communication.
Further information

* Easy English Writing Style Guide available for download
This booklet will provide a range of guidelines to assist you present
information that is easy to understand.

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