tips for teachers - disability awareness training
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Tips for teachers -Tips for teachers -Disability awareness trainingDisability awareness training
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Round table introductions / Nicola Pegum
Facilitator, Program Manager, Equity, Sydney Institute
/ Peter Tong – Guest student presenter
/ Tina BinepalTeacher Consultant, Disabilities - Intellectual
/ Maree Marsh Teacher Consultant, Disabilities – Physical
/ Chris SladeTeacher Consultant, Disabilities - Deaf and Hearing Impairment
/ Rhonda DebneyTeacher Consultant, Disabilities – Psychiatric
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Today's session/ Disability Legislation, Policy, enrolments & Privacy issues
/ What is Reasonable Adjustment?
/ Role of Teacher Consultants & Individual Disability units
/ What does Deaf/Hearing Impaired mean?
/ Issues and Tips for Deaf/Hearing Impaired?
/ Students with intellectual disability & tips
/ Students with a physical disability & tips
/ A students perspective
/ Students with a psychiatric disability & tips
/ Useful Links, Wikis, Have your say! - Q&A
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All about Disability legislation & policy/ Disability Discrimination Act (1992)
http://www.comlaw.gov.au/comlaw/management.nsf/lookupindexpagesbyid/IP200401406?OpenDocument
/ Disability Standards for Education (2005)/ http://www.ag.gov.au/www/agd/agd.nsf/page/humanrightsandanti-
discrimination_disabilitystandardsforeducation
/ NSW Disability Services Act (1993)http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/nsw/consol_act/dsa1993213/
/ NSW Privacy Lawshttp://www.lawlink.nsw.gov.au/lawlink/privacynsw/ll_pnsw.nsf/pages/PNSW_nswprivacy_laws
/ Students with Disabilities Policy - TAFE NSW https://www.det.nsw.edu.au/policies/student_serv/equity/tafe_disab/PD20050194.shtml
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Disability enrolments at Sydney Institute
Table 1Table 2
Did you know
/ In 2009, we had 6,248 students enrolled with disability
/ Almost 1 in 10 students enrolled at SI have a disability
/ Think about for your own classroom/training /room
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Privacy and disclosure of disabilityChoosing Your Path - Disclosure: it’s a personal
decision http://pubsites.uws.edu.au/ndco/disclosure
/ options & pathways people with disabilities use in disclosing
their disability in post secondary education & employment
/ articulates role and responsibilities of employers & educators in
relation to disclosure.
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/ providing students with disabilities with appropriate assistance so they can participate on the same basis as students who do not have a disability.
/ The legislation requires all TAFE NSW Institutes provide RA
What is Reasonable Adjustment?
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Examples of Reasonable adjustment
RA is negotiated and individualised to meet the specific needs of the student.
For example;
/ Extra breaks/ time/scribe/ during an assessment
/ Providing a student with an adjustable desk /chair in class
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/ Vision Impairment
/ Deaf/Hearing Impaired
/ Intellectual
/ Psychiatric
/ Physical
/ Neurological
Individual Disability units
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Assesses for:
/ reasonable adjustment assessment
/support services: E.g. Note takers, interpreters,
support teachers
/1:on:1 tutorial support
/separate rooms & extra time for exams
/liaise with classroom teachers
Role of Teacher Consultants
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Pre-lingual deafness: Deafness acquired before language acquired / mild moderate severe profound
The Deaf community/ Distinct, culture, identity social group
Hearing Impaired:/ Due to Illness, accident, ageing.
What does Deaf/Hearing Impaired mean?
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Obvious issues student may experience:
/ not be able to hear the teacher/trainer AT ALL
/ may miss a lot of what the teacher says
/ misses bits and pieces of what the teacher says
/ can’t communicate with the teacher
/ can’t communicate with fellow students
/ misses explanations, instructions, late changes, anecdotes,
corrections homework info.
Issues for Deaf/Hearing Impaired?
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/ communicate directly as possible. (i.e. F2f and slow down)
/ modify your language: become familiar with the appropriate language level for the student
/ check for understanding regularly, encourage & reinforce
/ use whiteboard frequently to record verbal teaching content
/ be inclusive (i.e. direct questions to the student. Ask them how their weekend was?)
/ use plenty of white space
Tips for teacher/trainers
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Students with an ID are diverse in their abilities
May experience difficulties with:
/ Grasping abstract concepts
/ Understanding complex terms
/ Problem solving
/ Recalling information
/ Reading and writing
/ Transferring skills from one situation to another
/ Communication
Students with an intellectual disability
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/ breaking a task down into smaller chunks
/ practical hands on experience
/ frequent repetition and review
/ specific and immediate feedback
/ consistency and routine
/ Guided practice
/ Shorter periods of learning interspersed with breaks
/ Use of visuals/colour/pictures
Inclusive teaching for students with ID
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Students with a physical disability/ Disability can be obvious or not so obvious
/ Student may also have other disabilities
/ Reasonable adjustment is negotiated and informed by
Medical Report
/ Reasonable adjustments examples include:
tutorial support, a note taker, reduced program, adaptive
technology.
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/ LEARNCAST – A range of Disability Brochures http://lrr.cli.det.nsw.edu.au/web/view/learncast/resources/9136.htm
/ HELP! Responding to students with Mental Health and Learning Difficulties is a video resource produced by the Centre for learning Innovation
http://lrr.cli.det.nsw.edu.au/web/view/learncast/resources/9136.htm
/ Responding to Students with Aspergers :/ http://lrr.cli.det.nsw.edu.au/web/view/learncast/resources/9136.htm
Useful Links
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Sydney Institute – Disability Wiki links/ RANDWICK: http://randwick.sydneyinstitute.wikispaces.net/Disabilities+Unit
/ EORA: http://eora.sydneyinstitute.wikispaces.net/Disability+Unit
/ PETERSHAM: http://petershamstaff.sydneyinstitute.wikispaces.net/Physical+Disability
/ ST GEORGE (HEARING AND PHYSICAL ONLY) http://stgdisabilities.sydneyinstitute.wikispaces.net/
/ LOFTUS/GYMEA/ http://sutherlandlearnersupport.sydneyinstitute.wikispaces.net/Disability+Support/ http://sutherlandlearnersupport.sydneyinstitute.wikispaces.net/Adaptive+Technology
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THE PANEL / Tina Binepal, Chris Slade, Maree Marsh, Rhonda Debney and
Peter Tong (Student Representative)
Have your say! - Q&A