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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

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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

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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).

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In spite of this…

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In spite of this…

Christy Brown (CP)

Author/Poet/Painter

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In spite of this…

Christy Brown (CP)

Author/Poet/Painter Helen Keller (deafblind)Author/Activist/LecturerAlbert Einstein (Asperger’s)

Theoretical Physicist

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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

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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

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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)

Page 9: Students with Special Needs

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

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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

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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

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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?

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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

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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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