Concurrent Session:

Towards a Great Life: How SRV has helped me get there

This presentation is a celebration of the quality life Rodney is living, despite his experience of social devaluation and the impacts of his disability. His success is partly due to a focus on valued roles, positive imagery associations, competency development and positive mindsets. Rodney Mills is from Brisbane, Australia. This presentation will showcase the good things in Rod’s life, illustrating how SRV tenets – a positive image and real valued roles – have been pivotal to this. Rodney and his team (family members and workers) continually seek to identify ways to strengthen existing valued roles, and explore new values roles for Rodney who has Autism and a severe communication impairment.

Presenters

Rodney Mills

Rodney Mills is a consultant and presenter. He regularly presents to various groups and co-presents on issues of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and its impact on him. He is featured in a documentary, Run Rodney Run. Rod’s work shifts mindsets about the capacity of people who are socially devalued and labelled as incompetent, and highlights Rodney’s successes. Rodney is an active disability leader and an inspiration to people with disabilities, families, community members and service providers.