Successfully including students with complex learning profiles

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.

In-person registrations close Friday, 15th November at 11:55pm; Online registrations close Monday, 18th November at 11:55pm.