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Inclusive education report released

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Children with Disability Australia has today launched a major issues paper exploring the need for inclusive education in Australian schools. The paper identifies an entrenched culture of low expectation when it comes to educating students with disabilities.

The Inclusion in Education: towards equality for students with disability paper is a literature review of over 170 pieces of research. The report identifies that the greatest barrier to children with disability being included at school is discriminatory attitudes.

The report states:


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Student campaigns for real time captions at school

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Earlier this month high school senior Delanie Harrington delivered a petition of 1,900 signatures to the Poway Unified School District Board of Education in San Diego California asking for real time captioning in the classroom.

Real time captions provide equal access to education by offering a rolling transcript of a teacher’s voice. They are created by a professional captioner working in a remote location, who coverts an audio feed into text. While the school district makes American Sign Language interpreters available, as Harrington does not use sign language she requires captions.


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Captions improve learning: study

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A case study conducted at San Francisco State University has found that student test scores and levels of comprehension improve when captions are turned on in university classrooms.

While captions are normally associated with providing access to videos for people who are Deaf or hearing impaired, there is growing evidence that they have literacy and learning benefits for everyone.


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Universal Design for Learning boosts student inclusion

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Inclusion in the classroom for all students is greatly enhanced when educators consider and use the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework in their planning and teaching.

UDL is an approach to education which aims to give all students equal opportunity to learn. Under UDL principles, teachers use methods that allow them to reach curriculum goals while meeting the needs of students with diverse needs and learning styles.


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