2018-05-06
The complainant’s son has an acquired brain injury, intellectual disability, autism, Opposition & Defiance Disorder and other impairments and attended the respondent public high school. The complainant alleged the school did not appropriately support her son, failed to develop or implement a behaviour support plan, refused her request for a teacher’s aide and suspended her son on several occasions without warning for behaviour associated with his disability. The complainant removed her son from the school before lodging the complaint with the Commission.
On being advised of the complaint, the School agreed to participate in conciliation to try to resolve the complaint.
The complaint was resolved. The school advised that, in response to the complaint, staff involved in some of the alleged events attended training on supporting students with disability and the school made improvements to procedures to ensure timely discussion of problems with parents. The school also undertook to improve processes for transitioning students with disability from primary to high school and to facilitate communication between parents of students with disability and teachers.
Year
Discrimination type
Disability Discrimination Act
Grounds
Disability
Unlawful to contravene Disability Standards
Areas
Education
Policy change/change in practice
Training
Amount