Key information
- Educational Adjustment Model and how it can help your child
- Learning Plans
- Links to further information
The Educational Adjustments Disability Funding Model provides resources to schools to help them provide needs-based support for students with disability to make sure they can access, participate and engage in learning.
Educational Adjustments for your Child
The Educational Adjustment Disability Funding Model is based on providing resources to school to support student need.
In this model, we don’t talk about what students can’t do, we talk about the educational adjustments they need to help them learn.
We focus on the use of positive language and inclusive practice to support students and their learning needs.
Funding is given to the school to make the educational adjustments students need. It is given based on what the school has been doing to support the student in the last 12 months.
The educational adjustments made for students need to be written in the student’s Learning Plan.
The student’s learning plan is developed in conversation with the student and family. A learning plan sets the goals the student will be working on each year and the progress a student makes.
A Learning Plan tells us about the educational adjustments that are being made for each student with a disability to meet their goals. The Educational Adjustments funding model uses this information to direct resources to schools.
Educational adjustments may be made in these four areas:
- Teaching and Learning
- Access
- Communication
- Health and Personal Safety/Care.
Your school will talk with you about the adjustments being made for your child working in partnership with you.
If your child is older or able to make their needs known, they will also be able to talk about the adjustments that will help them learn.
Here is some more information about the Educational Adjustments disability funding model:
If you are concerned about or not happy with the level of support and adjustments for your child, please speak to your child’s classroom teacher or Support Teacher in the first instance. It is a good idea to talk about your concerns, and about your child’s Learning Plan if they have one already.
School staff will be able to tell you about the educational adjustments that they are making to support your child. You can also share information about the educational adjustments that you, and your child, believe would help them to access, engage and participate on the same basis as their peers.
If you would like to discuss your concerns further, please speak to your child’s school Principal or another member of the school leadership team. If you still have concerns, please refer to the Department’s Grievance Guidelines.
More information
The Australian Government worked with Children and Young People with Disability Australia to co-design information resources to help students with disability and their caregivers understand their rights under the Disability Standards for Education 2005.
Information resources are available to help you understand:
- your rights as a student with disability, or the rights of a child with disability.
- how to work with education providers to make sure you can learn and participate on the same basis as students without disability.
The content of these resources was created by students with disability and their caregivers, based on consultation with a range of disability organisations and education authorities across Australia. These resources were funded by the Australian Government Information resources for students with disability and their caregivers – Department of Education, Australian Government
To ask the Department for Education, Children and Young People for more information about the Educational Adjustments Funding Model email: disabilityprograms@decyp.tas.gov.au.