Student Disability Report
Update: 28/11/14
It was recently revealed that the Pricewaterhouse Coopers has completed a survey of schools for the nation’s education ministers. The report was commissioned to determine the support provided to special needs students. The findings paint a dramatically different picture to conventional opinion.
The research found almost double the number of children with disabilities than was previously estimated. This is more than three times higher than the number of students currently receiving funding.
The nation’s ministers have, however, decided to keep the report under wraps for at least another year.
SAASSO has written to South Australia’s education minister, Jennifer Rankine, asking that she release the report to our state’s parents and education community – who we believe have the right to know the true situation with our special needs children.
We look forward to Minister Rankine’s reply and hopefully release of the report.
The number of students with special needs in South Australian schools has been rising for years, and recently, the well publicised discussion surrounding the Gonski Review of school funding has brought special needs education into the limelight. The review showed that 7.1% of SA students have a disability, yet the funding currently committed to those students is well below that committed by other states.
While by no means exhausting, below are some resources relevant to special needs education in South Australia.
School PostTerm 3, 2015 Interview with MLC Dignity for Disability’s Kelly Vincent |
School PostTerm 3, 2015 Parliamentary Inquiry into Special Needs Education in SA. |
“Every student with a disability has the right to gain the necessary knowledges, skills and attributes to achieve to their highest level of learning…. “
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