Inclusion of students with disability in mainstream schools – can you help with the research?

Children With Disability Australia (CDA) would like to inform members of valuable research being undertaken about the inclusion of students with disability in mainstream schools. The research is being undertaken by Include (an organisation which provides teaching and support to ensure that people can be included even when they have very significant impairments) and Edith Cowan University.

About 10 years ago families and schools across Australia were surveyed, asking them to rate how well their state was doing on physical, social and curricular inclusion of children with disability. This survey is a repeat of that research to see what progress has occurred over the last 10 years. More information about the research can be obtained by contacting the researcher This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Online survey here. Children With Disability Australia here.

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Secret agent training in Australia & New Zealand

Training in this social skills program for children with social and emotional challenges such as high-functioning autism (Asperger type) aged between 8 and 12 will be offered in five countries. Autism expert and creator of the breakthrough Secret Agent Society (SAS) program Dr Renae Beaumont and clinical psychologist Kathleen Davey will deliver practitioner training in Sydney, Auckland and Melbourne.

The two-day course is aimed at psychologists, counsellors, speech pathologists, occupational therapists, teachers, school support staff and other professionals who work with children on the autism spectrum.

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Julia Farr Youth Conference. Do you want to be involved?

Julia Farr Youth has been granted funding under the Department for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs National Disability Conference Initiative 2013-14. They will use the funding to host a conference for young people living with disability here in Adelaide. More information will be made available shortly and we invite any interested parties to contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. in the interim for information.

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Seeing with your ears. New device offers alternative to blind people

A device that trains the brain to turn sounds into images could be used as an alternative to invasive treatment for blindness and partially-sighted people researchers at the University of Bath have found. The vOICe sensory substitution device is a revolutionary tool that helps blind people to use sounds to build an image in their minds of the things around them.

Contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. for more information.