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Click here for a copy of our latest Journal Edition. Volume 15, Issue 1, 2025.
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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.
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The National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA) has asked the Mental Health Council of Australia (MHCA) to propose a framework for funding and delivering services to people with psychosocial disability related to mental illness through the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS).
Wednesday, December 18, 2013 at 12:45PM The December 2013 edition of The Children’s Hospital at Westmead’s School-Link newsletter on mental health and intellectual disability in children and adolescents is now available by clicking here.
Highlights include:
Draft Guidelines on the Pathways to Care for Children and Adolescents with Intellectual Disability and Challenging Behaviour and/or Mental Health Problems. David Dossetor Access to Allied Psychological Services (ATAPS)
Report on the Society for the Study of Behavioural Phenotypes Conference Dr Peter Wurth
Using the Positive Behaviour for Learning Framework. Leanne Neville
Collaboration: not the Emperors New Clothes. Terry Sarten
Neuropsychological Profile of Children with Autistic Spectrum Disorders. Dr Phil Ray
Neuroscience of caregiving: a seminar with Dr Daniel Hughes. Anders Hansson
Personalised Learning and Support for Students with Additional Needs: Every Student Every School. Katrina Worrall
The Medicine Cabinet. Clonidine Judy Longworth
Wednesday, December 18, 2013 at 12:39PM 
Seasons Greetings from Jodie and Hebah who are currently on maternity leave.
We wish you a merry xmas and safe and happy new year.
We look forward to returning back to work in early 2014.
Jodie and Hebah
Tuesday, August 13, 2013 at 11:38PM Click here for a copy of Volume 4 Issue 2 of the CHW School-Link Newsletter.
Highlights include:
Health Economics for Mental Health and Intellectual Disability by Associate Professor David Dossetor
Getting Students Ready for School by Michelle Hayter-Falconer and Nicole Ison
An Interview with Professor Les White by Hebah Saleh
The Medicine Cabinet: Quetiapine – a weak antipsychotic that is a great anxiolytic and excellent for acute agitation by Judith Longworth and Kenneth Nunn.
The National Roundtable on the Mental Health of People with Intellectual Disability: A Summary by Associate Professor David Dossetor
Conference Reviews, Reviews, Upcoming Training
Tuesday, August 13, 2013 at 11:24PM WHO: This forum is for parents & carers of young people aged 14 – 18 years who have a chronic health condition & who, because of a disability, will have difficulty managing their own care as adults. Registration essential.
WHEN: 18th October 2013, 9.15am - 2.30pm
WHERE: The Kids Research Building The Children’s Hospital at Westmead. Cnr Hawkesbury Rd and Hainsworth St, Westmead