The successful development of peer support will allow for necessary forms of queries to be handled by peers who have succeeded in the same or similar circumstances.
Direct Employment gives confidence and control to people with disabilities over their own lives, which is based on logic and social coherence. In order to make sure that this kind of model is flexible enough to allow change, even if complete change does not take place, the aim is to build flexibility into disability supports to bring the disabled closer to societal inclusion.
The empowerment of people with disabilities is the goal that helps the drive for success in providing a lasting improvement into the way disability supports are given: it changes the way in which trust is given for the provision of this. Direct Employment will hopefully cut the costs and "mess" in the provision of disability supports and build up solutions for the problems within.
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Direct Employment's flexible approach to disability support may help sway and bring about mutually beneficial partnerships that are created by the working relationship between direct support workers and people with disabilities. This is noted by the term "synergy theory," which is said to help people with disabilities to become people with different abilities.
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Peter Gibilisco was diagnosed with the progressive neurological condition called Friedreich's Ataxia, at age 14. The disability has made his life painful and challenging. He rocks the boat substantially in the formation of needed attributes to succeed in life. For example, he successfully completed a PhD at the University of Melbourne, this was achieved late into the disability's progression. However, he still performs research with the university, as an honorary fellow. Please read about his new book The Politics of Disability.
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