CHCEDS051 - Facilitate learning for students with disabilities

For Melbourne campuses

Assessment tasks will be designed to reinforce & extend knowledge and skill competence within set & controlled parameters in accordance with each unit’s learning outcomes & performance criteria requirements, including the setting of work based practical application tasks designed to provide evidence of competence outcomes, within periodic and scheduled timelines.

Students will be expected to demonstrate the following required skills:
• undertake a process of reflection on working with students with disabilities and discuss that reflection on one occasion with an educational professional
• demonstrate inclusive practices in three different student interactions
• contribute to, and implement, support strategies for one student with a disability using collaborative approaches at each stage of the process.

Students will also be expected to demonstrate the following knowledge:
• legal and ethical requirements for working with students with disabilities and how they impact individual work practice:
• access and equity
• anti-discrimination
• consent, in terms of an awareness and understanding of its meaning and strategies used to determine ability to consent
• confidentiality and privacy
• child protection
• duty of care
• safety and risk
• organisational policies and procedures for working with students with a disability
• potential impacts of own values, attitudes and experiences on perspectives about disability
• barriers and challenges for students with a disability
• inclusive practice:
• what it is and what it is not
• how to develop and consistently use it
• types of disability, the language used to describe them and their potential impacts on learning:
• acquired brain injury
• autism spectrum disorder
• cognitive disability
• developmental delay
• intellectual disability
• neurological impairment
• physical disability
• sensory disability
• speech-language disability
• principles of holistic and individual-centred care
• support strategies for different types of disability
• individual behaviour plans:
• what they are
• how they are developed
• how they are implemented and monitored
• ways to discuss the implications of an identified disability.