This research explored the health status of clients in Scope’s SIL homes. It also explored the impact of a model of support for staff, and staff views on supporting clients with complex health care needs living in SIL homes.
A research course was developed and delivered eight clients with intellectual disability. The course was about what research is and how to carry out research.
This research will co-design, test, and deliver resources to support communication and consultation with people with disability about their behaviour support plans and any proposed use of regulated restrictive practices.
Conducted to identify and explore falls risk factors within residents clients with intellectual disability living in group homes and pilot the use of a falls risk assessment screening tool.
This research, conducted as part of the Scope - University of Melbourne partnership, investigated how CE can be adapted for application in Australia.
This research project, conducted as part of the Scope - University of Melbourne partnership, explored the experiences of people with disability when their support service changed from a government service to a community service organisation.
This research explored the experiences of younger people (under the age of 65 years) who were living in, or at risk of entering residential aged care.
Scope partnered with the NDIA to conduct research that explored the supports NDIS participants use to build their capacity to work towards their own home and living goals.
The aim of the Keeping Pain in Check research was to determine if a checklist, the Non - Communicating Adult Pain Checklist (NCAPC), helped disability support workers to identify pain in people with intellectual disability and limited communication.
The aim of this research was to adapt a survey that was originally designed to measure outcomes of disability services for adults so that it can be used by carers of children and young people with disability.
The aim of this research was to develop and evaluate an online training course about decision-making support for disability support workers.
This research aimed to assess the reliability and validity of three surveys developed by Scope to measure outcomes of disability services.
The aim of this research was to build knowledge about how people with cognitive impairment can be supported to make life decisions, such as post-school options and accommodation.
The 1 in 4 Poll was a national survey on the issues of importance to people with a disability and their families undertaken in partnership with Deakin University.
This research includes 2 parts: One part examined the role of disability organisations in working together with people with a disability, families and communities to foster inclusion and how disability organisations could enhance their function in facilitating inclusion. The other was to identify key issues in how people with disability experience shopping centres.
This research focused on ‘building bridges’ between specialist and community providers of mental health services in relation to people with complex communication needs.