Awareness enterprise Epilepsy Smart Schools is calling for mandatory epilepsy training for teachers and schools to avoid 'adverse educational outcomes', which they say can include early school leaving, unemployment, and poverty in adulthood for children with the disorder. Schools are ...

There has always been respectful debate on whether a child with special needs should attend a mainstream school, a unit within a mainstream school or a school dedicated to special education. We are fortunate in Australia that families have options ...

Schools across Australia have installed mini-supermarkets on their grounds in order to help students with disabilities gain life skills.  The project launched in 2017 and has been implemented at 12 schools so far, and is set to expand to 25 ...

As a society we place a lot of trust in teachers, and the idea of socialising a child hinges on the trust that a teacher – and by extension school leadership – can provide. As you can imagine, these issues ...