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A wide range of health and learning conditions meet the legal definition of ‘disability’. ...

The Disability Discrimination Act 1992 (DDA) and the Disability Standards for Education 2005 (the Standards) are Australian laws that protect the rights of students with disability. These laws aim to eliminate discrim...

The Disability Discrimination Act 1992 (DDA) provides protection against discrimination based on disability. The DDA seeks to eliminate, as far as possible, disc...

This document provides information to schools and school principals from the Australian Government Department of Education about the NCCD. ...

A partnership approach aims to give students with disability the best chance to achieve their potential....

The information collected as part of the NCCD will not explicitly identify individual students. In any event, at all stages of the NCCD data collection and reporting, the privacy of both students and their families is...

Cooper is a 12-year-old Aboriginal boy with multiple diagnosed disabilities who attends a regional secondary school. He has limited access to disability and allied health services in the community. ...

Evelyn is in Year 7 at a metropolitan secondary school. Evelyn moved from a small country town at the start of Year 7, as there was no local secondary school. ...

Isla is in Year 10 at a large metropolitan secondary school. She has been diagnosed with mild spina bifida and dyslexia, with a functional impact on her ability to physically handwrite. ...

Jane is a 6-year-old girl with a diagnosis of cerebral palsy, a lifelong condition that affects movement and posture and is typically caused by damage to the brain before birth....