It’s everyone’s right to die with dignity. We all deserve support to make choices about the end of our life. Help us improve palliative care for people with intellectual disability.
We have released the 2021 Annual Report which provides information on the department's research activities, PhD projects, funding, personnel, publications and much more.
People with intellectual disability (PwID) make amazing contributions to their family, friends, their community and our planet. Please help us recruit PwID to our photovoice contribution project, so we can better understand this contribution.
Today, December 3 is the International Day of People with Disability. I am Tahli Hind, and I am a project administrator at 3DN. As a person with a disability, I am proud to celebrate this day.
UNSW 3DN's Dr Samuel Arnold and Julianne Higgins have won a 2021 Autism CRC Award for Achievement in Autism Spectrum Research for their project investigating autistic burnout and its risk factors.
The module aims to further disability professionals’ understanding of how to support people with intellectual disability at different stages of their journey through the criminal justice system.
3DN is privileged to have led the development of five new e-learning resources for the Mental Health Supports in Specialist Schools initiative of the Victorian Department of Education and Training.
3DN’s Australian first research published in the Medical Journal of Australia found that people with intellectual disability are up to 4.5 times more likely to be hospitalised for conditions that could have been adequately managed in primary care
3DN, with support from the NSW Ministry of Health, have developed a series of new easy read resources providing information about accessing and navigating mental health services available within NSW.
A historical study by 3DN found people with intellectual disability have & continue to face systemic issues to access #mental healthcare. This research calls for improved policy, governance, services, workforce capacity & research.
A recent study at 3DN, UNSW Sydney with support from the Dementia Australia Research Foundation looked at the health needs and service use of people living with less common types of dementia in NSW.
