DISABILITY SERVICES STANDARDS
(DISABILITY SERVICES COMMISSION)

Disability Services Standards (1-9) define what the West Australian Government expects services to achieve when assisting people with disabilities and their families. It describes how the principles and objectives of the Disability Services Act (1993) should be put into practice in disability services. They represent a framework that assists people with disabilities, their families/ carers and service providers to collaborate in the development and maintenance of high quality services.

Link to DSC Standards
http://www.disability.wa.gov.au/DSC:STANDARD

EDAC has been able to contribute significantly to facilitate the application of the Standards for service providers and their CaLD clients.

RESOURCES AVAILABLE FROM EDAC

* Pictorial CaLD Perspectives

This resource was developed by Dolly Bhargava, Speech Pathologist (Augmentative Communication Specialist) and Harry Pickett, EDAC Consultant Psychologist. The images are copyright of Innovative Communication Programming (Dolly Bhargava and Ylana Bloom) picture software program ‘Softpics with Fantasticpics’ (www.innovativeprogramming.net.au) and the images were modified to reflect ethnic diversity and disabilities.

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Various issues relating to the Disability Services Standards are aired over the 6EBA broadcasts on Tuesdays 11.30 am to 12 noon from time to time.
Recent recordings of programs are available through this website:          
www.edac.org.au

Archived programs are available on CD from EDAC. All recordings from Jul 2006 onwards.

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