Useful resources
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- Equipment Boost for - guides to support schools to identify, purchase and implement inclusive equipment and assistive technology that will best meet the needs of their students.
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- Abilities Based Learning and Education Support - an assessment and reporting suite that lets teachers assess how ready a student with disabilities and additional needs is to learn. It provides guidance on teaching students based on their individual learning needs and tracks student progress and achievements over time.
- NAPLAN - information and resources about adjustments to support accessibility for students with disability and additional needs.
- NAPLAN: cognitive - videos of students, families and schools sharing their experiences of using accessibility adjustments for NAPLAN online.
- Diagnostic assessment tools in - enable teachers to monitor student progress, gain information about students’ learning strengths and challenges, and plan and monitor interventions.
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- Yellow - Access the Yellow Ladybugs Supporting Autistic Girls at school website for support to address common challenges girls face at school
- Fine and gross motor – All Play Learn provides evidence based strategies to support fine and gross motor skill in students of all abilities
- All Play provides advice and guidance for teachers to understand and support student behviour in primary and secondary
- Art of - student voice video that highlights the different ways autistic students learn the strengths their autism brings to their learning, and some of the strategies in the classroom that work for them and help them learn.
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- Transition from home to early childhood education and care - guidance to help educators plan and support children with transition.
- Transition from primary to secondary school guide for - guidance to help teachers plan and support students with transition.
- Timeline and checklist of steps to create a transition
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- Schools Mental Health provides schools with opportunities to purchase evidence-based programs and initiatives across the three tiers of intervention. This includes initiatives that:
- promote student mental health and wellbeing
- enable schools to intervene early to support students
- provide targeted and more individualised support for students who need it.
- Lunchtime help build student engagement, social skills and inclusion for all students. They support students who may struggle with lack of structure in the school playground. Advice on how you might set up lunch time clubs at your school is available here.
- Supporting student - This resource helps students and teachers reflect on early signs of feeling anxious, triggers and contributors to anxiety, and strategies that may help
- Positive Partnerships - Wellbeing and resource looks at how f autism may have direct impacts on the individual’s ability to develop and maintain positive wellbeing and resilience.
- Disability-friendly offer advice, videos, guidance and other resources to help all members of the school community to prevent and respond to bullying of students with disabilities.
- Schools Mental Health provides schools with opportunities to purchase evidence-based programs and initiatives across the three tiers of intervention. This includes initiatives that:
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- Disability Inclusion Funding and Support policy guidance and advice regarding disability inclusion
- Individual Education Plans policy guidance and resources to support development of high quality IEPs
- Student Support policy advice to support understanding and delivery of Student Support Groups
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The Victorian Curriculum is designed on a continuum of learning and is presented in a scope and sequence chart to help teachers plan programs to meet the diverse learning needs of students. The learning areas referred to below are also reflected in the ABLES assessment and reporting tool.
Reviewed 15 May 2023