Community Disability Services is an edited text designed to be used by education providers delivering short and long courses to Disability Studies students and by current practitioners working in community disability services. In its primary role of promoting the development of a highly trained workforce in the modern community disability sector, it embraces three major themes: Disability and Modern Society, Working with individuals with a Disability, and Working in Disability Services. The book addresses the critical issues that affect people with disabilities and therefore staff and disability support organisations. And to assist in bridging the divide between research and practice, it discusses work-based issues, and provides ample case studies and action learning activities.

About the Author
Ian Dempsey is a lecturer and researcher based at the Centre for Special Education and Disability Studies at the University of Newcastle. He has previously worked as a schoolteacher, a teacher of children and adolescents with autism, and a coordinator of a respite care service for people with a disability. Karen Nankervis is the Head of Division, Disability Studies, in the School of Health Sciences at RMT University, Melbourne, Karen has more than 20 years' experience in providing support to people with disabilities. She has been the national president of the Australian Society for the Study of Intellectual Disability and the editor of Intellectual Disability Australia.


Book Information
ISBN 9780868406152
Author Ian Dempsey
Format Paperback
Page Count 416
Imprint NewSouth Publishing
Publisher NewSouth Publishing
Weight(grams) 690g