Living with Disability Research Centre Online Seminar

The Observing Practice Quality Tool (OPQ)

Our final online seminar for 2024 will feature a co-presentation by our director Professor Christine Bigby and Research Fellow Dr Lincoln Humphreys about the Observing Practice Quality Tool (OPQ).

This is a new tool for non-researchers that has been developed to assess the quality of support services received by people with intellectual disabilities.

The OPQ is grounded in several years of academic research conducted by our staff, and will is available as a mobile app.

This session provides the rationale for development of the OPQ and an introduction to its use and the training website.

Introducing the OPQ – A new tool to assess the quality of support for people with intellectual disabilities.

Professor Christine Bigby, Director, Living with Disability Research Centre and Dr Lincoln Humphreys, Research Fellow, Living with Disability Research Centre

The Observing Practice Quality (OPQ) tool is designed for auditors, frontline supervisors, frontline managers, practice coaches and service quality managers.

The OPQ translates complex research measures into a simple tool for non-researchers interested in monitoring the quality of staff support for people with intellectual disabilities and providing feedback to staff or organisations to improve their practice.

The tool has been developed into an app to provide an easy way to observe support and evaluate its quality. The OPQ app is free to download and use. Use of the OPQ requires some training, which is available through a new online training resource.

The OPQ has been a few years in the making and is now ready for use.