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Under the Disability Discrimination Act 1992 (DDA) and the Disability Standards for Education 2005 (the Standards), Australian students with disability must be able to access and participate in education on the same b...

The Disability Discrimination Act 1992 (DDA) defines disability broadly as:

For a student to be included in the NCCD, the school must have documented (physical or digital) evidence of adjustments provided to meet ongoing, long-term specific needs associated with disability that have a functio...

The NCCD counts all school students where:...

The NCCD model describes how to undertake the NCCD. The model provides a systematic process that enables schools across Australia to count, in a consistent manner, the number of students with disability receiving adju...

The NCCD model relies on the professional judgement of teachers and administrators to determine which students to include in the NCCD....

Under the Disability Discrimination Act 1992 and the Disability Standards for Education 2005, schools have an obligation to ensure that students with disability are able to access and participate in school on the same...

The methods for recording and submitting data differ from jurisdiction to jurisdiction and, in some cases, from school to school, depending on the local systems in place and the varying requirements in each jurisdicti...

Determine the broad category of disability for each student from one of four categories:...

In deciding whether identified students are to be included in the NCCD, teachers and school teams use their professional judgement, based on evidence, to determine the level of adjustment each student is currently bei...