Successfully including students with complex learning profiles

  • Successfully including students with complex learning profiles

Promotional banner for the ‘Successfully including students with complex learning profiles - research forum' on 21st November 2024. The banner features the QUT Centre for Inclusive Education logo on the left. It includes images of diverse students engaged in classroom activities. From left to right: a boy raising his hand in class, three girls with their arms around each other smiling together, and a boy with Down Syndrome in a regular classroom smiling at the camera.

Students with complex learning profiles have a combination of impairments affecting behaviour, cognition, communication, emotional regulation, mobility, and/or sensory processing. Students in this group are the exceptions cited by critics of inclusion who cannot fathom how these students can be successfully educated alongside their same-age peers in inclusive classrooms. Indeed, the needs of students with complex learning profiles was one rationale for the split decision on phasing out or retaining a segregated education system in the final report of the Disability Royal Commission. In this Forum, students, parents, teachers and researchers will share stories of successful inclusion in early childhood, primary and secondary schooling. Strategies and practices that support students with complex learning profiles to be genuinely included, at all stages of learning, will be discussed.

 

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Welcome to QUT Centre for Inclusive Education

Professor Linda Graham, C4IE

Linda Graham's presentation

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Including Will

Will and Ainsley Robertson

Will and Ains Robertson's presentation

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

School Perspective: How are we doing it?

Irene Mauga and Claire, Wynnum State High School

Irene Mauga and Claire Georgiev's presentation

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Aspirations and how opportunities build capacity

Dr Lara Maia-Pike, C4IE

Lara Maia-Pike's presentation

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What can successful inclusion achieve?

Interview with Chancellor Ann Sherry AO, QUT

Ann Sherry's interview

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Including Julius

Julius Panetta and Catia Malaquias OAM

Catia Malaquias' presentation

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

School Perspective: How are we doing it?

Kate Reid, Program Coordinator of Inclusion, Bob Hawke College, Perth

Kate Reid's presentation

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Making the academic curriculum accessible to students with complex learning profiles

Loren Swancutt, C4IE

Loren Swancutt's presentation

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Including Isaac

Dr Carly Lassig

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Providing specialist supports in inclusive ways

Professor Beth Saggers, C4IE

Beth Saggers' presentation

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Successful inclusion is possible: What does Australia need to do so that every student is included?

Rosemary Kayess, Australian Human Rights Disability Discrimination Commissioner

Rosemary Kayess' presentation.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Doing it! Before, now, and in the future

Panel

Professor Suzanne Carrington (Chair), Catia Malaquias OAM, Irene Mauga, Kate Reid, and Bailey Stephens

Panel presentation

Details:

Location: E550 Education Precinct, Kelvin Grove Campus, QUT Brisbane [link to map]
Start Date: 21/11/2024 [add to calendar]
Start Time: 8:55am
End Time: 3pm
Organiser: The Centre for Inclusive Education
Enquiries: contact.c4ie@qut.edu.au