By Maree Ireland
My name is Maree Ireland and I work at field – furthering inclusive learning and development.
We are trying to set up an information page on our website around people with disabilities experiences and stories (good or bad) of setting up their own self directed approaches, whether they, be self directed planning or funding or self-directed employment. We are interested in seeing if there’s a change in the relationship with your workers. We want to do this to show people what is really happening with self directed approaches and maybe encourage more people to want to try it.
We are keen to get people’s stories and are willing to go and meet people and record their stories either by taking notes or videoing them as they tell their stories.
We were wondering if you might know any people from your trials of self-directed approaches who may be interested in telling their experiences. Alternatively, could you pass this information to people who may be interested in being involved with this.
If people are interested, can they please contact me on maree.ireland@field.org.au.
- Maree
What do you mean by “self-directed”?
How else would a caregiver be able to understand what is needed unless the disabled voiced their needs -
It’s never a one-sided relationship where a caregiver tells the disabled what to do…