students with special needs
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Encompasses a wide variety of situations Physical/behavioural/intellectual disability Indigenous Gender/sexuality Race/culture/language/religion Gifted & talented Substance dependency Experiencing trauma Excluded. Students with Special Needs. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Students with Special Needs
Encompasses a wide variety of situations• Physical/behavioural/intellectual disability• Indigenous• Gender/sexuality• Race/culture/language/religion• Gifted & talented• Substance dependency• Experiencing trauma• Excluded
Students with Disabilities
Disability is defined in Australian legislation as
“a disorder or malfunction that results in the person
learning differently from a person without the disorder or
malfunction”.
(Disability Discrimination Act, 1992).
In spite of this…
In spite of this…
Christy Brown (CP)
Author/Poet/Painter
In spite of this…
Christy Brown (CP)
Author/Poet/Painter Helen Keller (deafblind)Author/Activist/LecturerAlbert Einstein (Asperger’s)
Theoretical Physicist
In spite of this…
Christy Brown (CP)
Author/Poet/Painter Helen Keller (deafblind)Author/Activist/LecturerAlbert Einstein (Asperger’s)
Theoretical Physicist
John Nash (Schizophrenia)MathematicianRubin Carter (Speech
difference) - Boxer
In spite of this…
Christy Brown (CP)
Author/Poet/Painter Helen Keller (deafblind)Author/Activist/LecturerAlbert Einstein (Asperger’s)
Theoretical Physicist
John Nash (Schizophrenia)MathematicianRubin Carter (Speech
difference) - Boxer
Frida Kahlo (polio)Painter
Evelyn Glennie (deaf)
Xylophonist/piper
In spite of this…
Christy Brown (CP)
Author/Poet/Painter Helen Keller (deafblind)Author/Activist/LecturerAlbert Einstein (Asperger’s)
Theoretical Physicist
John Nash (Schizophrenia)MathematicianRubin Carter (Speech
difference) - Boxer
Frida Kahlo (polio)Painter
Evelyn Glennie (deaf)
Xylophonist/piper
Temple Grandin (Autism)Animal scientist/professor
John Merrick
(Neurofibromotosis)
In spite of this…
Christy Brown (CP)
Author/Poet/Painter Helen Keller (deafblind)Author/Activist/LecturerAlbert Einstein (Asperger’s)
Theoretical Physicist
John Nash (Schizophrenia)MathematicianRubin Carter (Speech
difference) - Boxer
Frida Kahlo (polio)Painter
Evelyn Glennie (deaf)
Xylophonist/piper
Temple Grandin (Autism)Animal scientist/professor
John Merrick
(Neurofibromotosis Zhou Zhou (Down Syndrome)Conductor
Gurrumul Yunupingu (Blind)Musician
In spite of this…
Christy Brown (CP)
Author/Poet/Painter Helen Keller (deafblind)Author/Activist/LecturerAlbert Einstein (Asperger’s)
Theoretical Physicist
John Nash (Schizophrenia)MathematicianRubin Carter (Speech
difference) - Boxer
Frida Kahlo (polio)Painter
Evelyn Glennie (deaf)
Xylophonist/piper
Temple Grandin (Autism)Animal scientist/professor
John Merrick
(Neurofibromotosis Zhou Zhou (Down Syndrome)Conductor
Gurrumul Yunupingu (Blind)Musician
Monica McGhie (Total Amelia) - Artist
How did these adolescents learn?
• Desire to learn• Faith and interest of teachers/families• Love and support• Positive and negative reinforcement• Adaptations/compensation in learning
style/multiple intelligences
What can WE learn from them?
• Never judge or write-off a student based on a disability
• If you don’t feel you can be a positive influence – try at least to not be a negative influence
• Model acceptance and faith• Question: If you can envisage a child whom
you cannot teach – should you be teaching?
Disability Discrimination Act (1992)
It is unlawful for an educational authority or educational provider to discriminate against a student on the ground of the student’s disability. This includes • denying or limiting the student’s access to any benefit
provided by the educational authority• by developing curricula or training courses having a
content that will either exclude the person from participation, or subject the person to any other detriment
Disability Standards for Education (2005)
Education providers have an obligation to ensure that students with disabilities are able to participate in education and training on the same basis as students without disabilities by:
• making reasonable adjustments where necessary• taking reasonable steps to ensure that the course or
program is designed to enable participation in the learning experiences
• ensuring staff are proficient in interacting with students in ways which do not discriminate against people with disabilities
• having strategies and programs to prevent harassment and victimisation of persons with a disability
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