The Tosinvest Sanita SpA Group has announced the availability of a Writer’s Award associated with the 14th World Congress of the IASSID to be held in Halifax, Canada in 2012.

One of our most exciting innovations for Individual members (ie full and student members) is electronic access to ASID's internationally renowned Journal of Intellectual and Developmental Disability. All you need to do is go to the Login above and register using your Membership number as your User name. An email will be forwarded to you advising when access to this resources has been enabled.

ASID has published a code of ethics to inform the education and training of direct support professionals. The code was co-launched in November 2007 during the Australasian-wide conference at Fremantle and the annual ASID DSW Conference at Melbourne. 

Twelve (12) ethical principles have been identified and a series of supporting guidelines developed. The guidelines are designed to inform the professional conduct of individual direct support professionals, for use as part of agency-based induction and in-service training and to inform curriculum content for TAFE, polytechnic, RTO and university courses.

We are pleased to offer members of ASID a 40% discount off the personal subscription rate of IASSID's Journal of Policy and Practice in Intellectual Disability (JPPID). This new member benefit allows you to see all that JPPID has to offer for 40% less!

ASID has secured a trial of 2 electronic databases for Members Only, providing on-line access to some of the latest scientific publications in our field.

If you have not already registered, Members please Register using your membership number as your User Name at the Login button (on the top right of the webpage). You will receive an email when your registration to be processed, then re-login. The databases will be found on the RESEARCH tab.

(1) Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection

Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection is a comprehensive database covering information concerning topics in emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational & experimental methods. This is the world's largest full text psychology database offering full text coverage for nearly 560 journals.

(2) Education Research Complete

Education Research Complete is the definitive online resource for education research. Topics covered include all levels of education from early childhood to higher education, and all educational specialties, such as multilingual education, health education, and testing. Education Research Complete provides indexing and abstracts for more than 2,100 journals, as well as full text for more than 1,200 journals, and includes full text for nearly 500 books and monographs.