Wider support materials

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...

Schools provide a variety of general support services to all their students. It may be necessary to make adjustments to ensure that students with disability can access these services. When students have special needs,...

Federal law states that students with disability have the right to be consulted before the education provider makes adjustments to enable them to participate in education on the same basis as students without disabili...

It is okay for students and parents to ask for a meeting.

Collect all relevant information....

Prepare by writing and rehearsing

A record of a meeting is a summary of the main points discussed, including what decisions and actions were agreed at the meeting, when they will occur, who will carry them out, and when they will be reviewed....

In successful meetings, people achieve what they set out to do or make progress towards an agreed goal. Even when a participant did not get exactly what they expected, a meeting can be successful if...

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