Category: Journal
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The Bummunicator Blues Comes Alive in Mexico
Ten years ago I wrote a song about my bum … er, about a speculative assistive technology device called the Bummunicator. At the 2023 ISAAC conference in Mexico, Robyn (a music therapist from Sydney) asked if I had written any songs. I had forgotten about it but I had written a song about the Bummunicator.…
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ISAAC Conference 2023 Reference Material
I am presenting at the ISAAC Conference 2023 in Cancun, Mexico. Here are the handouts and reference lists for my presentations. Please note: the text in the handouts has been formatted to try to make the text-to-speech engine sound more natural, so there may be some strange spelling and peculiar grammar. Monday morning – Can…
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‘On my worst day …’ How the NDIS fosters a deficit mindset and why that should change
‘On my worst day …’ How the NDIS fosters a deficit mindset and why that should change Getty Kate Anderson, RMIT University and Darryl Sellwood, Flinders University The National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) was designed to empower and support people with disability. But ten years into the scheme, many participants are finding their encounters with the…
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Ready for the half of 2023
This morning I wasn’t up as early as yesterday writing, clearing my head. I can see the next four to five months are going to be fairly busy with my university jobs, organising a NDIS review, getting new accommodation and arranging traveling to Mexico in July this year to attend the ISAAC conference. It is…
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Woke up at 3:40, mind racing!
I woke up at 3:10am this morning from a dream, I was trying to teach someone how lift me in a particular way which was from childhood. The method is having someone lift you by them put their arms come under yours then their hands go over your wrist to grab them. It’s an effective…