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Education survey finds 12pc of children with a disability kept from class by school ‘gate keep

Norman Hermant
ABC Online
Monday 28th October, 2019
Felix's mother Chloe Letica believed some of her son's behaviours might have been avoided if he was offered more support. She is now home-schooling him. "It is infuriating," she said. "He has
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This advocate redesigned the Disability Royal Commission website so people with disability can actually use it

Sam Langford
SBS News
Saturday 2nd November, 2019
“There were a lot of bureaucratic words, a lot of information about things like ‘letters patent’, which is legal jargonese which people don’t necessarily understand, or need to know. What they
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Disabled children restrained at schools

Aine Fox
7 News
Monday 28th October, 2019
More than a fifth of disabled young people have been subjected to some form of restraint at school in the past year, new research shows.
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The students with disabilities excluded from our schools

Melissa Raine
SMH
Sunday 4th August, 2019
For many families of children with disabilities, their first encounter with a Victorian state school is marked by “gatekeeping". They might be encouraged to enrol their child elsewhere or told a
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Dismantling the barriers that hold back disabled students

Rod Clune
The NewDaily
Friday 21st June, 2019
Many tertiary institutions employ own disability liaison officers. Other DLOs are employed regionally and shared across campuses, especially in the TAFE sector.
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Four things students with vision impairment want you (their teachers and friends) to know

Melissa Cain and Melissa Fanshawe
The Conversation
Wednesday 12th June, 2019
Schools are set up for students who can see. But around 3,000 school-aged children in Australia have a vision impairment – 300 of these have a severe vision impairment or
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Studying in Australia as a Disabled Student

Study in Australia

This online guide will help you define what specific needs you will submit to the disability support service running at your university and will help them effectively meet your disability-related…

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What you need to know if your child with a disability is starting school soon

David Roy, David Armstrong
The Conversation
Wednesday 16th January, 2019
A new school year can be daunting for any parent, prompting many questions: will my child settle in, make friends and progress academically? If your child has a disability these
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Supporting You – Supporting Students

Australian Disability Clearinghouse on Education and Training (ADCET)
Wednesday 1st January, 2014
This clearing house facilitate successful outcomes and improved educational experience for students with disability by  providing information, advice and resources to disability practitioners, academics, teachers and students on inclusive practices within
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Concerns raised after girl with autism placed in cardboard ‘box’ enclosure in classroom

Ellen Coulter
Wednesday 26th September, 2018
Ms Desmond said the school needed to be held to account for inappropriate decisions, but the buck stopped with Education Minister Jeremy Rockliff. "Parents are fighting day after day, year after
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Disabled teens suffering the mental health effects of bullying

Tania King & Anne Kavanagh
The Conversation
Friday 10th August, 2018
If we could stop the high levels of bullying that adolescents with a disability experience, we could make a big difference to their health, learning and wellbeing. So school anti-bullying programs
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Schools try out a ‘can do’ approach to funding for disabled students

Henrietta Cook
TheAge
Friday 3rd August, 2018
For decades, desperate families wanting to secure disability funding from their state school have had to go through the confronting process of describing exactly what their children can't do. But that’s set
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