Keelonith Primary School is a brand-new, future-focussed, inclusive school in Victoria, Australia that is due to open in 2021. The school is described as a ‘supported inclusion school’, meaning that it welcomes and caters for all students within the local community, including students from diverse backgrounds such as different abilities,

On Monday 19th October 2020, I (Leanne) was invited to be part of an ABC radio interview to discuss the education of students with disability in South Australia. In particular, the discussion centred on the education of a five-year-old boy named Nate, who has several disabilities. Nate is starting school

Author: Jessica White Publisher: UWA Publishing Year: 2019 Themes: deafness, sign language, speech, presume competence, disability, family and resilience ‘Hearing Maud’ is a brilliant hybrid work of personal memoir and biography by Jessica White. It is told through the lens of deaf studies. It recounts the author’s experience of deafness at

Author: Samantha Wheeler Publisher: University of Queensland Press Year: 2018 Themes: Presume competence, Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC), disability, siblings, family and resilience The key theme of this book is to presume competence in people with disabilities because everyone has a voice, regardless of whether they can communicate in traditional

Within education, there is the continual search for ‘best practice’, a ubiquitous term  that has been applied to a range of approaches from evidence-based practices through to untested commercial programs that form the basis of a profit-making business model. Within the latter category, some programs are based on misconceptions about

Teacher assistants, also referred to as School Service Offices (SSOs) in South Australia and School Learning Support Officer (SLSO) in NSW, are invaluable in supporting students with disability to access education. The employment of assistants is a response to the Disability Discrimination Act (1992) and the Disability Standards of Education