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What do I Think is Important for my Child at School?

The following has been taken from One of the Kids: Educating Children With and Without Disabilities Together in the Same Classes and Schools. See below for more details about the book.

Making up your own list of “Things I Want From a School” might help you in making choices or going to meetings.

Look through the list below and think about how important each of these things is to you. They are not in any particular order.

• Making friends
• Being actively involved with other children in the class
• Being helped to play with other children in the playground
• Having other children encouraged to be involved with him/her
• Being safe in the playground and before and after school
• Keeping up with other children academically
• Having work which is based on the class work but might be changed to meet his/her needs or abilities
• Having necessary support: human, technological or organisational to allow him/her to participate as actively as possible
• Having a teacher who cares about his/her well being and progress
• Being treated with and spoken about with respect
• Being welcomed as a valued member of the school
• Being seen as a child, not a “problem”
• Having staff at the school who have high expectations of him/her
• Having staff at the school who want him/her to succeed there
• Being given time to respond
• Being given time and/or assistance for eating
• Getting help with personal hygiene/going to the toilet etc
• Being encouraged to develop his/her abilities
• Having his/her strengths and interests recognised and used as much as possible
• Add your own

Source:
Stroeve, W. 1998. One of the Kids. Page 69. Disability Council of NSW.
Available at www.discoun.nsw.gov.au/publications

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