Special Education Services
Southport State High School embraces inclusive education on many levels. The School recognises that every individual is unique and has the fundamental right to be valued treated with respect and to reach their full potential in a setting that consistently delivers a high quality education to support outcomes for all.
The School environment encourages acceptance of individual differences and learning styles, enabling all students to belong within a community that validates and values their individuality; not erases their differences.
Southport State High School demonstrates its commitment to inclusive education through:
- Valuing all students and staff equally
- A collaborative and united staff approach to problem solving
- Learner rather than content focused teaching/planning
- Celebrating difference in dignified ways
- Commitment to the improvement of strategies, programs and use of available resources
- Increasing the participation of students in, and reducing their exclusion from, the culture, curricula and communities
- Restructuring the cultures, policies and practices in school so that they respond to the diversity of students
- Reducing barriers to learning and participation for all students
- Viewing the difference between students as resources to support learning, rather than problems to be overcome
- Improving schools for staff as well as for students.
- Emphasising the role of schools in building community and developing values, as well as increasing achievement.
- Fostering mutually sustaining relationships between schools and communities.
- Recognising that inclusion in education is one aspect of inclusion in society
Education Queensland requires that all schools produce inclusive policies, create inclusive cultures and evolve inclusive practices.
In line with this inclusive agenda it is mandated that the appropriate adjustments are made to allow students with verified special education needs to be given the opportunity to reach their potential whilst participating in the full range of programs and services offered by the School. There will be validation to ensure that this is occurring.
Students attending an SEU (Special Education Unit)
The SEU at Southport SHS caters for the needs of students with a diverse range of needs ... (read more)
Integration
The integration of students with disabilities into regular classes is encouraged and supported by the SEU, Administration, Education Queensland and the broader community.
What is intellectual impairment?
People with an intellectual impairment learn and develop intellectually ... (read more)
What is autistic spectrum disorder? Autism is a life-long, developmental disability that affects the individual’s understanding and interpretation of the world around them ... (read more)
A vision impairment can be present at birth, occur at any time from disease or accident or be part of a medical condition or syndrome ... (read more)
What is a hearing impairment?
Hearing impaired refers to people with a hearing loss of disorder of the ear (such as Tinnitus or Menieres) who communicate predominantly orally ... (read more)
What is a physical impairment?
There is a wide range of physical impairments. It is important to realise that physical impairment goes beyond ... (read more)
What is speech-language impairment?
In order for a student to be identified in the Department of Education, Training and the Arts disability category of Speech-Language Impairment ... (read more)
What is vision impairment? |
