Wider support materials

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...

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.