Learning and achieving
Students with disability have the right to learn and to demonstrate their achievement on the same basis as students without disability. Schools adjust learning activities and assessment tasks all the time to meet the ...
Participating
Students with disability have the right to participate in all school activities, inside and outside the classroom, on the same basis as students without disability. Activities should be planned or adjusted so that stu...
Enrolling
Students with disability have the right to enrol in school on the same basis as students without disability. This means they have a right to information about how the enrolment process works and support in navigating ...
On the same basis
All students have choices and opportunities at school. The Disability Standards for Education 2005 (the Standards) state that students with disability have the right to be treated on the same basis as students without...
Harassment and victimisation
The Disability Standards for Education 2005 (the Standards) set out how education providers can work with students and their parents, guardians and carers to ensure that students with disability do not experience disc...
Curriculum and support services
A personalised approach to learning and support takes into account all of the students’ individual needs and all of the adjustments they need to access and participate in their education. This planning might include w...
Participation
All students have the right to participate in education....
Enrolment
All students have the right to enrol in school....
Discrimination
Disability discrimination means people are treated worse than others because they have a disability....
Who do the rights apply to?
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 ...