ASID welcomes the Prime Minister's announcement that the government shares the Productivity Commission's vision for a National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). Such a scheme is essential to address what has been found nationally to be a disability support system that is underfunded, unfair, fragmented, and inefficient, and which fails to provide .........
Roger Stancliffe is Associate Professor, Disability Studies, at the University of Sydney’s faculty of Health Sciences. On June 7th, at the American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (AAIDD) 135th Annual Meeting in St Paul Minnesota, 33-year ASID member and past Editor of the Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability (2003-08) Roger Stancliffe, was honoured as the recipient of the AAIDD Research Award. AAIDD President, Professor Michael Wehmeyer presented the award, with a citation that read:
Research Award.
Presented to Roger J. Stancliffe PhD FAAIDD.
In recognition of your Exceptional Accomplishments.
In the 40-year history of the AAIDD Research Award, Roger is the first person from the southern hemisphere to be so recognised. Past recipients of this prestigious award include Sir Michael Rutter (UK), Jack Tizard (UK), Donald Baer (USA), David Braddock (USA), Ann and Alan Clark (UK), Lionel Penrose (UK) and Robert Edgerton (USA).
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