supports mainstream health services to build their capacity to address the health needs of adults with intellectual and associated developmental disabilities.
Centre for Developmental Disability Health (CDDH) staff are a multidisciplinary team who work across a range of education, clinical, research and advocacy activities to improve the health of people with intellectual and associated developmental disabilities.
Centre for Developmental Disability Health (CDDH) provides education and training to health and disability practitioners to enable the development of positive attitudes and a sound knowledge base in relation to the health issues of people with developmental disabilities.
Established to improve health outcomes for people with developmental disabilities. We believe that the health, and therefore the lives, of people with disabilities can be enhanced by supporting those who provide healthcare to develop positive attitudes towards people with disabilities, and a sound knowledge base in relation to the health issues of people with developmental disabilities.
Centre for Developmental Disability Health (CDDH) supports medical and other health professionals to provide healthcare to their patients with intellectual and associated developmental disabilities. Experienced General Practitioners provide detailed assessments and reviews of people referred to CDDH by their own General Practitioners.
Service Innovation
Centre for Developmental Disability Health (CDDH) contributes to building a better understanding of health and healthcare needs of people with intellectual disability through CDDH projects and collaborative partnerships with other organisations and researchers.
Centre for Developmental Disability Health (CDDH) contributes to the development of policy and practice in relation to the healthcare of adults with intellectual and associated developmental disabilities through a range of activities including dialogue with policy makers, comment on discussion papers and submissions to commissions and enquiries.
Centre for Developmental Disability Health
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