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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. Students with Special Needs.

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Students with Special Needs

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  1. 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

  2. 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). Students with Disabilities

  3. In spite of this…

  4. In spite of this… Christy Brown (CP) Author/Poet/Painter

  5. In spite of this… Christy Brown (CP) Author/Poet/Painter Helen Keller (deafblind) Author/Activist/Lecturer Albert Einstein (Asperger’s) Theoretical Physicist

  6. In spite of this… Christy Brown (CP) Author/Poet/Painter Helen Keller (deafblind) Author/Activist/Lecturer Albert Einstein (Asperger’s) Theoretical Physicist Rubin Carter (Speech difference)- Boxer John Nash (Schizophrenia) Mathematician

  7. In spite of this… Frida Kahlo (polio) Painter Christy Brown (CP) Author/Poet/Painter Helen Keller (deafblind) Author/Activist/Lecturer Albert Einstein (Asperger’s) Theoretical Physicist Rubin Carter (Speech difference)- Boxer Evelyn Glennie (deaf) Xylophonist/piper John Nash (Schizophrenia) Mathematician

  8. In spite of this… Frida Kahlo (polio) Painter Christy Brown (CP) Author/Poet/Painter Helen Keller (deafblind) Author/Activist/Lecturer Albert Einstein (Asperger’s) Theoretical Physicist Temple Grandin (Autism) Animal scientist/professor John Merrick (Neurofibromotosis) Rubin Carter (Speech difference)- Boxer Evelyn Glennie (deaf) Xylophonist/piper John Nash (Schizophrenia) Mathematician

  9. In spite of this… GurrumulYunupingu (Blind) Musician Frida Kahlo (polio) Painter Christy Brown (CP) Author/Poet/Painter Helen Keller (deafblind) Author/Activist/Lecturer Albert Einstein (Asperger’s) Theoretical Physicist Temple Grandin (Autism) Animal scientist/professor John Merrick (Neurofibromotosis Rubin Carter (Speech difference)- Boxer Zhou Zhou (Down Syndrome) Conductor Evelyn Glennie (deaf) Xylophonist/piper John Nash (Schizophrenia) Mathematician

  10. In spite of this… GurrumulYunupingu (Blind) Musician Frida Kahlo (polio) Painter Christy Brown (CP) Author/Poet/Painter Helen Keller (deafblind) Author/Activist/Lecturer Albert Einstein (Asperger’s) Theoretical Physicist Monica McGhie (Total Amelia) - Artist Temple Grandin (Autism) Animal scientist/professor John Merrick (Neurofibromotosis Rubin Carter (Speech difference)- Boxer Zhou Zhou (Down Syndrome) Conductor Evelyn Glennie (deaf) Xylophonist/piper John Nash (Schizophrenia) Mathematician

  11. 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

  12. 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?

  13. 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 Discrimination Act (1992)

  14. 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 Disability Standards for Education (2005)

  15. Activity!

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