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Classroom adjustments: Tourette syndrome
In this episode, we talk about common adjustments teachers make in the classroom to support students with Tourette syndrome. A neurological disorder, Tourette’s causes motor and vocal tics, which are involuntary movem...
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Classroom adjustments: Muscular dystrophy
In this episode, we talk about adjustments teachers make in the classroom to support students with muscular dystrophy, or MD. A genetic neuromuscular disorder, MD causes progressive muscular degeneration. For some stu...
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Classroom adjustments: Down syndrome
In this episode, we talk about common adjustments teachers make in the classroom to support students with Down syndrome. A genetic chromosome disorder, Down syndrome results in some level of intellectual disability ra...
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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...
What's fair?
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...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
Getting support
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,...
That's not fair!
Students with disability have a right to fair treatment....