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The financial cost to a family with a handicapped child, whether living at home or away, is often very considerable. The Living with Handicap report of 1970 found the need for financial help...

This paper suggests The New Zealand Curriculum Exemplars for Learners with Special Education Needs and the accompanying booklet, Narrative Assessment: A Guide for Teachers, can potentially transform...


Assumptions about disability play a key role in how disabled students are treated at school. Using a case study as a focus, Bernadette Macartney argues that every child has the right to be viewed...

Otahuhu College wanted to know how its teachers were coping with the inclusion of students with disabilities in their classrooms, and more specifically, how teachers interacted with such students....

Supportive friendships and relationships at school contribute to children’s quality of life as well as their learning. There are some concerns that students with disabilities may be isolated, lonely...

Social interactions are very much an individual matter, but what factors in a school setting also influence students with disabilities in developing social relationships?

Questions and responses that provide a starting point for professionals who are beginning to grapple with the meaning of inclusive school programmes. Reprinted from Phi Delta Kappan, October, 1996,...

Support circles for inclusion students help everyone in the classroom.

Placing handicapped students in the regular classroom is the beginning of an opportunity to influence handicapped students' lives deeply by promoting constructive relationships between them and their...

What is fairness?
NZCER concentrated on
(a) access (pre-school to continuing education);
(b) content and teaching style;
(c) allocation of educational resources;
(d) outcomes, e.g.,...
