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All students have the right to participate in education....
All students have the right to enrol in school....
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...
A wide range of health and learning conditions meet the legal definition of ‘disability’. ...
Disability discrimination means people are treated worse than others because they have a disability....
Hayley is now a healthy Year 8 girl, but for many years she was in and out of hospital with long periods of treatments that interfered with her ability to participate in learning. As a ...
Adjustments are made for each individual student....
Under the Disability Standards for Education 2005, education providers must consult with the student or their parent, guardian, carer or other associate before making a reasonable adjustment. Other peo...
On rare occasions, schools are not required to make adjustments....
Adjustments are designed to enable a student to learn on the same basis as others. However, ‘the same’ is not always ‘fair’. Reasonable adjustments support students with disability to access education like other stude...