1. Support Learning for Students with Disabilities
CHCEDS016 & CHCEDS0018

2. What is Disability?
Permanent loss of function – either physical, intellectual neurological or sensory
Factors
Environmental – nutrition, cultural motor vehicle
Genetic – chromosomal, heredity
Physical – prematurity, ageing, toxicity ageing
Present at birth, acquired at birth, acquired at any other time
Brainstorm – definition of disability

3. Disability/Special Needs
Disability: A way of understanding one or more things about how your child’s body or mind works, which is different to most other people. Your child’s disability might mean that they sometimes need extra help to be well, move around, hear, see, learn, communicate or feel comfortable. Special Needs: One or more differences between your child and most other children, which affects what they need so they can be well, move around, hear, see, learn, communicate or feel comfortable. Special needs can include disability, chronic illness and mental health issues.
Brainstorm special/additional needs

4. Some Statistics
13% living in households where there is a carer of someone with a disability/aged (2,557,000)
There are 474,000 carers
71% female
yrs of age
(2013 report)

5. Issues Confronting those with Disability and their Carers
Grief and loss
Family and carer issues
Retuning to work
Routine
Parental Relationship
Siblings
Social Isolation
Lack of information about options (language/cultural issues)
Lack of information about procedures
Inconsistency
Information/Education about rights
cost

6. Issues Confronting those with Disability and their Carers
Unsatisfactory co-ordination between services
Insufficient funding
Disability unrecognised or undiagnosed
Lack of trained support staff
Lack of equipment, technological aids and other devices
Access to buildings
Discrimination
Social isolation, teasing, or harassment

7. Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD)
On 13 December 2006 at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) and its Optional Protocol was adopted and opened for signature on 30 March There were 82 signatories to the convention on that day, including Australia

8. Rights of People with Disabilities
The right to respect and dignity
The same fundamental rights as the rest of the society
The right to reach their individual potential
The right to make their own decisions
The right to services specific to their disability
The right to complain about the services or lack there of

9. Legislation Disability Discrimination Act 1992
Disability Standards for Education 2005
Modifying educational premise
Modifying or providing equipment
Changing assessment procedures
Changing the course of delivery

10. Inclusive Education

11. Equity Vs Equal Opportunity
Inclusive Practises
Equity Vs Equal Opportunity
Equity – participation and achievement to an equal level
Equal Opportunity – every one having an equal start

12. Inclusive Practices There is a holistic view of child development
Educators should develop a sense of community
Collaboration
Heterogenous grouping
Range of individual support and services
Engagement and active learning
Reflective teaching
Multiple ways of teaching

13. Inclusive Practices Personal Beliefs
All people have the right to freedom, justice and equity
All people have access to an decent standard of housing, health care, education and safety
EVERYONE should be seen & valued as a whole person
All humans are created equally
Free speech
Everyone has the right to feel safe and accepted
Brainstorm personal beliefs re people with disability

14. Inclusive Practices Everyone should be accepted for who they are
Everyone’s difference should be celebrated
People with disabilities should be treated with same dignity and respect as any other person
Everyone has the ability to make a contribution to society
Everyone has the right to have their needs addressed adequately and appropriately

15. Inclusive Practices Use appropriate language
AVOID USING TERMS SUCH AS:
abnormal, defective, defected, invalid
Invalid, Afflicted with, stricken with, victim of, suffers from
Deaf and dumb, deaf mute, deaf mute, blind as a bat, cripple
Describing someone as an epileptic, arthritic, Down’s

16. Inclusive Practices Avoid using insulting language
Pidgeon holing people (sterio-typing)
Use the correct terminology

17. Child First Principle
ALWAYS Refer to the Child First and the disability second by:
Act a positive role model
Value every student as a valuable member of the school community
Support the privacy of every student
Support the right of every student to have their physical needs met.
Model and support the use of augmentative communication and technology
Support student learning in regular classrooms
Support children to build friendships
Support students to have a voice in school matters

18. Marginalised Students
Those students that have additional needs e.g.
Child at risk of abuse and neglect
Children exposed to domestic violence
Children who experience serious illness or death in the family
Children who experience racism and prejudice
Children who experience homelessness
Children who live in poverty
Children who experience divorce
Children who are living with someone who has a substance abuse problem
Children who speak languages other than English
Young people who identify as homosexual

19. Identifying Students with Additional Needs
Student may have a disability that has been identified from birth or soon after
Student acquires a disability as a result of illness or accident
Parents express concern and seek support from the school and other professionals
The teacher identifies concerns after a period of close observation

20. Benefits of Inclusive Education
Students with disabilities should be removed from mainstream classrooms because they are putting a strain on teachers and schools. Discuss