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Special Education

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  Reform funding on need

  August 16, 2022

  The proportion of students with higher needs in NSW public schools has grown significantly. In 2002, one in 25 students had a disability; now one in five students in metropolitan schools and more than one in three in remote schools are receiving an adjustment to their support due to disability.

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  National Disability Insurance Scheme in schools: put simply

  May 19, 2022

  The National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) provides support to eligible people with intellectual, physical, sensory, cognitive and psychosocial disabilities. Early intervention supports can also be provided for eligible people with disability or children with developmental delays.

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  Teaching students with disability in mainstream classes

  March 24, 2022

  Federation has long advocated for students with disability, calling on successive governments to provide the necessary resources so all students can realise their full potential.

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  Important permanent staffing win for support units

  February 14, 2022

  Improvements to the executive staffing of support units with seven or more classes will start in term 2; a significant gain for members, students and their families.

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  Registered Nurse Must Be Maintained At Special Education School In St Ives

  October 22, 2021

  The NSW Teachers Federation demands the retention of a Registered Nurse (RN) position at Sir Eric Woodward School for Special Purposes at St Ives.

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  Teachers rise to the challenge

  August 24, 2021

  There is no question that adjusting to remote learning during the current COVID-19 lockdown is affecting all teachers, students and school communities, however, the situation for teachers in schools for specific purposes (SSP) and support units is particularly complex.

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  Inspiring others to find their inner ‘powers’

  May 30, 2021

  It would be wonderful to see schools recognising and implementing strategies to support teachers with multiple sclerosis (MS), so they can stay as valued members of the workforce, said North Curl Curl Public School teacher Maxine Gourley.

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  Disability: secret report exposes new wave

  December 03, 2020

  A confidential NSW government report has shed light on a critical and burgeoning challenge for public education as the number of students with disabilities is predicted to grow by 50 per cent in the decade to 2027.