Disability Inclusion at Concord School

Disability Inclusion has started at Concord School this year. Disability Inclusion is all about supporting your child’s needs. Concord School staff are skilled in understanding how to accommodate for your child’s individual needs, and this reform will strengthen these skills and provide further knowledge to staff. Over time, this model will replace the Program for Disabilities (PSD) application process.

Included in this new process is the Disability Inclusion Profile (DIP) meeting. It has been an exciting few weeks as several DIP meetings have already taken place, and several more are scheduled over the coming weeks. Having the student present for part of their meeting and hearing about their aspirations and goals has been the highlight of the meetings.

The DIP process is not required for every student every year, as students will only have a few DIP meetings in their school life. If your child is required to have a DIP meeting, we will contact you, talk through the process with you and invite you and your child to attend the meeting with us.  An independent facilitator will run the meeting and help to complete the profile. The meeting will run for about 90 minutes. 

At the meeting, the group will:

• talk about the strengths and goals of the student
• talk about the adjustments in place to help them learn at school
• talk about the level of adjustment that is required for each school related activity

Following the meeting, the school and the parents/carers will receive a profile report.

Please click here to go to the Department of Education website and watch a short video about Disability Inclusion.

Easy English resources about both the Disability Inclusion Profile (PDF) and the profile meeting itself (PDF) are available.

If you have any questions about Disability Inclusion, please feel free to contact me at Rachael.Macmillan@education.vic.gov.au

Rachael Macmillan

Disability Inclusion Leader