Silent Voices: Women With Disabilities and Family and Domestic Violence

By Judith Cockram, PhD


Acknowledgements

The author gratefully acknowledges the contributions of the participants in the project. These include community organisations who took the time to complete the questionnaire as well as those individuals who participated in interviews.

Special thanks go to the women who shared their stories about their experiences with family and domestic violence in the hope that they would help other women in similar circumstances.

The project team is indebted to the members of the Reference Group, Chelsea McKinney, Lois Gatley, Nerida Gundry, Fauziah Varusay, Linda Kazazi and Ruth Whiteside for sharing their knowledge, insight and expertise with us. Laurel Cummins capably provided research assistance for the project.

Lotterywest provided a grant to facilitate this research under the Lotterywest Grants for Social Research program.

The conclusions are those of the author and not necessarily People with Disabilities (WA) Inc., the Ethnic Disability and Advocacy Centre or Edith Cowan University.


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