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Overview of responses to the first Education and learning Issues paper

Disability Royal Commission
Tuesday 8th September, 2020

Responses to the issues paper about education and learning for people with disability have been received from individuals including people with disability, family members of people with disability, advocates, organisations…

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‘One of the most difficult times we’ve ever experienced’: Students with disability struggle during pandemic

Luke Michael
Pro Bono News
Monday 27th July, 2020
or Ronelle – who has two children with disability who attend mainstream schools in rural Victoria – the move to remote learning has highlighted the inequality in Australia’s school system.
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Advocates divided over the return of students with disability to the classroom

Luke Michael
Pro Bono News
Wednesday 15th July, 2020
Disability advocates are concerned by the Victorian government’s plan to allow students with disability to return to school, with fears this will put vulnerable children in greater danger of contracting
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Violence, abuse, neglect’: three Melbourne special schools in probe

Adam Carey
The Age
Saturday 20th June, 2020
Three special schools in Melbourne will be investigated over a series of allegations of “violence, abuse and serious neglect” of students with disabilities over the past 10 years. Victoria’s Department
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‘I’m at breaking point’: Young disabled and carers in virus crisis

Carolyn Webb
The Age
Wednesday 27th May, 2020
Mary Sayers, CYDA's chief executive, said that ‘‘all responses to a crisis such as COVID-19 must be designed to avoid creating further educational and social disconnection and inequality’’.
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Parents exhausting NDIS funding to pay for support workers for homeschooling assistance

Nas Campanella
AM
Wednesday 6th May, 2020
Many children have been learning at home during the pandemic. But for parents with children living with a disability the transition has been tough. Some families say they're exhausting their
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Parents of children with disabilities are struggling to teach their children during COVID-19

Norman Hermant, Nas Campanella and Lucy Kent
ABC Online
Wednesday 6th May, 2020
Homeschooling is difficult enough for most families, but parents of students with disabilities say they urgently need more support to help educate their kids. Fiona Sharkie, CEO of Victorian peak
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We all contributed to the bullying of Quaden Bayles

Stephanie Gotlib
Probono Australia
Tuesday 3rd March, 2020
Nine-year-old Quaden Bayles gained global fame in a viral video after he was bullied at school for his dwarfism. Disability advocate Stephanie Gotlib writes it is the attitudes and actions
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Aussie parents ‘uncomfortable’ with students with intellectual disability in their child’s school

Luke Michael
Pro Bono News
Monday 10th February, 2020
Endeavour Foundation CEO Andrew Donne said it was shocking that so many people were uncomfortable having their children share a class with a student with an intellectual disability.
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Students with disabilities need inclusive buildings. We can learn from what’s already working

Scott Alterator
The Conversation
Tuesday 3rd December, 2019
Part of this spend must go towards improving school facilities, especially for students with a disability. In 2017, around 18.8% of school students in Australia were provided with adjustments at
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Exclusive education: Parents can equip themselves to combat ‘gatekeeping’

Kate De Bruin
The Sector
Thursday 28th November, 2019
When Gibb was ready to start school, his mum, Caitlin, took him on a school tour. She had picked this school because of its “small village feel”, thinking they would
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Rushed disability royal commission yet to hear from a victim or person with a disability

Nas Campanella and Norman Hermant
ABC News
Saturday 9th November, 2019
"When you say you're going to have a royal commission that's going to have disabled people at the heart of it and then you don't have a single disabled person
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