PIMDA: Profound Intellectual & Multiple Disability Australia

Welcome to PIMDA. PIMDA stands for profound intellectual and multiple disabilities Australia. PIMDA is Sheridan Forster's weblog about issues to do with people with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities (PIMD) in Australia. The purpose of PIMDA is to increase awareness of people with PIMD and the issues pertaining to this population. The other purpose of PIMDA is to build a network of interested people who can then work together to improve the lives of people with PIMD.

Thursday, September 25, 2014

BIts and bobs

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It's been awhile since I've written, but it doesn't mean I've not been busy. I've been focusing my attentions elsewhere...
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Thursday, October 24, 2013

Do you know what they see?

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I suspect that a huge number of the adults with PIMD that I meet have undiagnosed cortical vision impairment. The compromised understanding ...
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Saturday, October 12, 2013

Pimda conversations reaching the UK

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I few of the PIMDA articles were recently reproduced in PMLD-LINK magazine. http://www.pmldlink.org.uk This is a great UK magazine that focu...
Friday, August 2, 2013

Intensive Interaction Down Under conference next year

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For people interested in Interaction with people with PIMD, check out the 2014 Intensive Interaction conference  http://www.ammp.com.au/iid3...
Friday, July 26, 2013

Bigger is better bias: or the knee jerk reaction

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Picture this, I tell someone I like folk music. Their response, instead of saying "really", or "what type?"  or somethin...
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Monday, July 22, 2013

Approaching Best Practice for adults with PIMD in day services

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I had the pleasure of spending a day at WALCA in Bexley, NSW, last week. There were many things about the service that make me suggest they ...
Thursday, June 27, 2013

Raising Our Sights: Practice Guides

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The Practice Guides for Raising Our Sights are out. Check them out on the Mencap website. http://www.mencap.org.uk/all-about-learning-disabi...
Monday, June 24, 2013

Dr Jan van Dijk coming to Melbourne

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http://enews.threeware.com.au/subscribers/view_online/0_3647/1668566/M1J8E5wsqFDz9veWAh28JIS9ounouey8 I am a huge fan of Van Dijk's work...
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Tuesday, June 11, 2013

Children’s commissioner: Rules on touching ‘wrong’ - Scotland - Scotsman.com

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This was front page of the Sunday Scotsman newspaper. Very interesting article calling to reexamine the touch aversive environment of childr...
Saturday, June 1, 2013

Raising Our Sights UK ... next steps

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I was really excited to hear that the UK PMLD Network and Mencap have produced how to guides and films in follow up to Jim Mansell's Rai...
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Sheridan
I am a person interested in the lives of people with PIMD. I wear multiple hats including researcher, therapist, advocate, and friend. I strongly believe that in order to continue to improve the lives of adults with PIMD we need to acknowledge the specfic issues related to this group of people. The first step in this is acknowledging that there are a group of people who have PIMD, and although they are all individuals there are some issues that they share in common. I hope this weblog enables discussion of what some of these issues are.
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