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Welcome to Healthy Start.
Parents with learning difficulties can parent well, but it is important that they receive the right support and education matched to their learning needs.
Healthy Start is a national capacity building strategy which aims to improve health and wellbeing outcomes for children whose parents have learning difficulties.
Healthy Start does this by working with practitioners, managers, researchers, and policy makers to access and exchange knowledge, information, resources and expertise about how best to support parents with learning difficulties and their children.
Healthy Start supports individuals and organisations to:
- Access best-practice information, summaries of latest research, and evidence-based programs. Download free information or contact the team to discuss tailored support for your organisation.
- Exchange knowledge with other professionals by sharing ideas and resources at supported events, workshops, or via the online Practice Network.
- Build the capacity of your existing networks, services, or programs by working on local initiatives, meet with Healthy Start champions across Australia, and get involved in leadership development activities.
Healthy Start at the upcoming IASSID Event
Founded in 1964, the International Association for the Scientific Study of Intellectual Disabilities (IASSID) is the first and only world-wide group dedicated to the scientific study of intellectual disability.
It is very exciting to announce that the upcomming July 2012 IASSID World Congress will showcase 32 papers on parents with learning difficulties. Presenters include Mikaela Starke, Gabrielle Hindmarsh, Susan Collings, Prof. Gwennyth Lwellyn, Hanna Björg Sigurjónsdóttir, Dr. Margaret Spencer and Dr. Catherine Wade.
Click to find out more about the 2012 IASSID World Congress.
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