Useful resources
- Abilities Based Learning and Education Support (ABLES)(opens in a new window) - an assessment and reporting suite that lets teachers assess how ready a student with disabilities and additional needs is to learn. It provides guidance on teaching students based on their individual learning needs and tracks student progress and achievements over time.
- NAPLAN accessibility(opens in a new window) - information and resources about adjustments to support accessibility for students with disability and additional needs.
- NAPLAN: cognitive adjustments(opens in a new window) - videos of students, families and schools sharing their experiences of using accessibility adjustments for NAPLAN online.
- Diagnostic assessment tools in English(opens in a new window) - enable teachers to monitor student progress, gain information about students’ learning strengths and challenges, and plan and monitor interventions.
- Yellow Ladybugs - Access the Yellow Ladybugs Supporting Autistic Girls at school website for support to address common challenges girls face at school
- Fine and gross motor strategies – All Play Learn provides evidence based strategies to support fine and gross motor skill in students of all abilities
- All Play Learn provides advice and guidance for teachers to understand and support student behaviour in primary school and secondary school
- Art of Learning - student voice video that highlights the different ways autistic students learn the strengths their autism brings to their learning, and some of the strategies in the classroom that work for them and help them learn.
- Transition from home to early childhood education and care settings(opens in a new window) - guidance to help educators plan and support children with transition.
- Transition from primary to secondary school guide for teachers(opens in a new window) - guidance to help teachers plan and support students with transition.
- Timeline and checklist of steps to create a transition plan(opens in a new window)
- Schools Mental Health Menu provides schools with opportunities to purchase evidence-based programs and initiatives across the three tiers of intervention. This includes initiatives that:
- promote student mental health and wellbeing
- enable schools to intervene early to support students
- provide targeted and more individualised support for students who need it.
- Lunchtime clubs help build student engagement, social skills and inclusion for all students. They support students who may struggle with lack of structure in the school playground. Advice on how you might set up lunch time clubs at your school is available here.
- Supporting student anxiety - This resource helps students and teachers reflect on early signs of feeling anxious, triggers and contributors to anxiety, and strategies that may help
- Positive Partnerships - Wellbeing and Resilience resource looks at how f autism may have direct impacts on the individual’s ability to develop and maintain positive wellbeing and resilience.
- Disability-friendly schools offer advice, videos, guidance and other resources to help all members of the school community to prevent and respond to bullying of students with disabilities.
- Schools Mental Health Menu provides schools with opportunities to purchase evidence-based programs and initiatives across the three tiers of intervention. This includes initiatives that:
- Disability Inclusion Funding and Support overview policy guidance and advice regarding disability inclusion
- Individual Education Plans (IEPs) policy guidance and resources to support development of high quality IEPs
- Student Support Groups policy advice to support understanding and delivery of Student Support Groups
- Find information and resources on Student Voice(opens in a new window) to give students the opportunity to communicate their ideas and opinions and influence change. These resources have been co-designed by young people with disability and the Youth Disability Advocacy Service. They include a video, communication cards, social scripts and information about how to include student voice in the Disability Inclusion Profile.
The Victorian Curriculum is designed on a continuum of learning and is presented in a scope and sequence chart to help teachers plan programs to meet the diverse learning needs of students. The learning areas referred to below are also reflected in the ABLES assessment and reporting tool.
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