School Life is More than Academics: The Power of Extracurricular Participation
Community Resource Unit Ltd. (CRU)
Tips for Parents. Friendships: Building a Good Life
Peal Centre
This fact sheet describes what parents can do to lay the foundation for friendship for their child with disability, drawing on 6 key elements of friendship development.
Building Friendships Through the School Years
Community Resource Unit Ltd. (CRU)
"Always assume that while we cannot manufacture or “force” friendships, we can steadily invest in opportunities and strategies that make friendship more likely.
Sometimes the investments will bear fruit quickly and other times, we will only see the results over the longer term… but if we want a life rich in relationships, we need to act with intention and focus towards a vision of a life which includes deep and rewarding relationships."
Classroom Enviroment Checklist
The MEHRIT Centre
Harness the Possibilities
Resourcing Inclusive Communities (RIC)
Building Belonging in the School Community: Finding Roles that Help Students Participate and Contribute
Community Resource Unit Ltd.
The Self-Reg Framework - A Handbook for Educators
North Star Paths: Kate Horstmann
Image Source: The Therapist Parent.
The Language of Us and Them
Mayer Levin
“All kids want to do well because they want love, belonging and understanding. It is up to us to restory our student’s challenging behaviour in order to help them succeed, feel loved, and feel understood. Certainly, it’s what we'd want someone to do for us.”
(From ‘Behaving to Belonging : The inclusive art of supporting students who challenge us’ by Julie Causton and Kate Macleod)
Image Source: North Star Path
Schoolwide Zones Cheat Sheet
The Zones of Regulation
One common tool for students to learn to regulate their own behaviour is the Zones of Regulation, but sometimes school may not follow all of the recommendations, for example, being in the red zone should not be associated with shaming or punishment. 
Positive Behaviour for Learning: Misconceptions, Myths and Missed Opportunities
Dr Shiralee Poed
In this lecture, Dr Shiralee Poed addresses some of the implementation challenges alongside potential solutions for anyone working in a school implementing PBL, or considering its application in their school. The video can be viewed on the QUT website via this link, or by click on the image below.
Emotional well-being is something that is often undervalued in people with disability by the wider community. However, to be human is to feel, and while expression of emotional need will always be limited by a person’s communication skills, the emotion is no less real for the person.
Children with disability, especially those with limited effective ways of communicating, need those in the school community around them to be intentional in looking for signs/communications of emotional need, and to ensure emotional needs are recognised and met.
Most important for emotional well-being for every human being, is a sense of belonging. Ensuring that students with disability are feeling the same sense of belonging, feeling connected, valued and respected as contributing members in and out of the classroom as much as their non-disabled peers, is a crucial first step to ensuring their emotional well-being.
This project is proudly supported by the Queensland Government through the Department of Education.
The Department of Education website outlines its commitment to Inclusive education through its inclusive education policy.
