The Back to Back Theatre film internship program for people with intellectual disability: A summative evaluation.

Background: Internships may be a successful pathway for increasing employment rates among people with intellectual disability. This paper presents a summative evaluation of a brief film internship program for people with intellectual disability.

Method: At the commencement and conclusion of the internship, semi-structured interviews were conducted with eight interns and 10 mentors.

Self-advocacy with retailers by people with complex communication needs.

Purpose: The researchers aimed to discover what might prevent people with complex communication needs CCNs) from making complaints if they experienced social exclusion in the retail environment.

Method: Qualitative research methods were used to gather data from two groups of participants: adults with CCN and retail customer service staff. Seven adults who used speech-generating devices SGDs) and who shopped independently were interviewed about their perceptions of retail customer service communication.

How Do People With Intellectual Disability Engage With and Understand Gambling? A Qualitative Study of Adults in Victoria, Australia.

This study aimed to understand the factors that may influence how and why people with intellectual disability may engage in gambling. Nineteen people with intellectual disability were recruited from a disability advocacy organization and participated in face to face, semi-structured qualitative interviews. Open ended questions were used to explore participants' gambling participation, recall of, and attitudes toward, different gambling products, understanding of gambling harm, and awareness of responsible gambling messages.

Weighing up the risks and benefits of community gambling venues as recreational spaces for people with lifelong disability.

Background: Community gambling venues (pubs and clubs) are commonly associated with leisure and recreational options in Australian communities. While these venues offer a range of activities and facilities, including social opportunities, sporting facilities, live entertainment, they also contain gambling products that are known to cause significant harm to individuals, their families and communities. Although researchers have explored how adults and children engage with these venues, there is limited understanding about the potential risks and benefits of these venues for people with lifelong disability.

Communication access in the retail environment for people with complex communication needs.

Purpose: To identify what facilitates retail communication access for people with complex communication needs, and the impact of communication in this context on social inclusion.

Materials And Method: Seven adults with lifelong or acquired complex communication needs who used augmentative and alternative communication devices (AAC) and nine retailers participated in interviews to determine factors that contributed to communication access and inclusion. Interview data were analysed using the grounded theory method within an ecological model of social inclusion.