In the flood of current educational reforms, do we risk leaving behind students with special needs, asks Robert Conway.

Educational reform is going on apace in Australia at present. We have major building projects, computers in schools, the new curriculum, NAPLAN and My School. It has created lots of excitement and fanfare - but what about students with special educational needs? Have we forgotten them in the process or are they seen as an impediment to the process and hence not addressed? With the passing of the Disability Standards for Education in 2005, one would have assumed that students with special needs would have been considered in the current planning and implementation of content within both...