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A guide for parents and carers: Guidelines on Pathways to Care for children and adolescents with intellectual disability and challenging behaviour and/or mental health problems.
View the executive summary of the "Leading the Way in Mental Health and Intellectual Disability" needs analysis report here.
View the 2017 Obudsman Inquiry into behaviour management in schools. This report focuses on issues concerning students with complex needs and challenging behaviour. The report discusses the difficult challenges that schools face, but also draws attention to reasonable steps that can and should be taken to meet the learning and support needs of students, within a framework of best practice and evidence-based behaviour support.
Thursday, July 5, 2018 at 12:13AM The NDIS is providing funds for disability services for eligible people in Australia. If you are looking for information on how to provide positive or negative feedback on NDIA decisions or consumer and service provide concerns, then look no further than this flow chart.
Wednesday, January 31, 2018 at 4:10PM 
The Children's Hospital at Westmead are looking for participants to join their research study into a therapeutic program to improve the mental health and well-being of adolescents on the autism spectrum who also have an intellectual disability.
1. Adolescents aged between 12-16 who have a co-diagnosis of autism and mild intellectual disability and their carers (parents and teachers),
or
2. Educators or other proefssionals with at least three years experience working with adolescents on the autism spectrum and/or with a mild disability.
If you would like read more about the study or would like to find out how you can take part please read the full description here.
Contact: Anita Gardener, Research Psychologist, the Children's Hospital at Westmead
Friday, December 22, 2017 at 1:54PM We want your opinion! Do you have a spare 5 minutes?
Please complete the following survey to help CHW School-Link improve our professional development activities and the journal on the topic of the mental health of children with an intellectual or developmental disability.
We also want to hear your thoughts on how to improve this journal.
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The survey closes on the 28 February 2018.
Friday, December 22, 2017 at 1:48PM The latest issue of the Journal of Mental Health for Children and Adolescents with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities is now ready for your holiday reading!!
Highlights include:
Friday, September 29, 2017 at 7:14AM 
The Westmead Feelings Program resources, were launched by the Children's Hospital at Westmead and ACER at the Asia Pacific Autism Conference in Sydney on September 9. Westmead Feelings Program 1 is a 15-month intervention program teaching children with autism spectrum disorder and mild intellectual disability about emotional understanding and social awareness, in close collaboration with parents, teachers and facilitators. Westmead Feelings Program 1 was previously known as the Emotion Based Social Skills Program, but has now been updated and published by ACER.
The accompanying resources and online professional learning are now available on the ACER website here.