When young people with disability are empowered to participate and achieve within their community, they experience more positive quality of life, wellbeing, and longer-term achievements. This project put “nothing about us, without us” into action, by bringing young people with disability together to co-create a digital toolkit that promotes their self-determination in community programs.

Young people with disability described barriers and enablers to self-determination in community programs, and identified resources that could enable them to achieve their goals and aspirations, understand and embrace their identity as a person with disability, feel they belong and are a valued contributor, and overcome obstacles.

This project was funded through Scope Australia’s Jennifer Fitzgerald Research Grant. The project builds on our earlier work, funded through internal Faculty funding, which examined the self-determination of students with disability in education settings.

Led by researchers with disability in collaboration with experts in disability inclusion, psychology and education, and co-created with young people with disability, we are collectively proud to share the digital toolkit, and research outcomes, on this project page.

Investigators