FREE COMMUNITY EVENT, LUNCH PROVIDED!

It is so often said that ‘Knowledge is Power’ and ‘You don’t know what you don’t know’.

So… what if, together, we can do something about that?

Thanks to an NSW Government Grant from the Department of Communities and Justice and the Disability Advocacy Futures Program, Action for People With Disability is proud and excited to present a series of 8 community education and advocacy workshops for the disability community in Northern Sydney.

They would love you to join their team and the panel of expert presenters they have brought together, so that you can learn specialised information to support you to know and uphold your rights, and to be your own self-advocate.

Knowledge truly can bring power.

So let’s learn together.

WORKSHOP 5: Monday June 17th 2024

Informed & Empowered: Disability and Education

Join a host of speakers with a wealth of experience, representing many parts of the Education experience in NSW, including:

• The right to education
• Defining ‘disability’ in an Education system context
• Applying for funding for disability and learning support in schools
• Different education models and settings such as public and private SSP (Schools for Specific Purposes), Mainstream schools with and without disability support units, and SLSO (School Learning Support Officers)
• Defining Reasonable Adjustment in an education context to facilitate access to learning and assessment opportunities
• Enrolment and accessing specialised support options
• Support options at school related to behaviours of concern
• Post-school transition planning
• Indirect Discrimination: when a student’s needs are not met by their education setting: hearing a lived experience perspective
• Education support options at TAFE: hearing a lived experience perspective
• Education support options at University: hearing a lived experience perspective

Speakers include:

• Carmel Hillier: Learning Support Instructional Leader, Year 2-6 Teacher, Dee Why Public School
• Josh Wilson: 2023 TAFE Graduate
• Michael Rahme: Disability Advocate and University Graduate
• Peta Barry: Disability Advocate
• Vanessa Dillon and Jacqui Anderson: St Edmund’s College Wahroonga
• Arianne McCrombie, Matt Tonkin, Jen Knowles: Fisher Road School
• Betty Harris: President, Board of Action for People with Disability

This workshop will include multiple sessions of focused information, separated by catered breaks.