Inclusive Pedagogical Practice for Children with Additional Healthcare Needs

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Introduction
The basic human right towards the foundation of equal society is inclusion in the
domain of education (Cook, Klein & Chen, 2015). According to the reports published by
Richter et al. (2017), inclusive education can be defined as a concept where the children with
special needs are given education in mainstream schools. The United Nation Educational,
Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) first introduced this approach in the year
1996. UNESCO highlighted that inclusive schools are effective in addressing indifferent
attitudes nurtured by the healthy children and individuals towards the children with additional
needs (Australian Research Alliance for Child and Youth [ARACY], 2012). This inclusive
practice helps to promote equitable education to all irrespective of mental or physical
disability which is the main concept of this assignment. The following assignment will
highlight inclusive pedagogical practice set-up with 30 different children under the age group
of 0 to 5 years. All these 30 children are with additional healthcare needs like challenging
behaviour, communication difficulties, Autism, Down’s syndrome, and Cerebral Palsy.
Among these children 3 are from culturally and linguistically diverse communities and
another 3 are suffering from chronic health issues. The assignment will initiate with funding
and national quality standards in Australia for inclusive pedagogical practice. After
discussing the issue, the assignment will highlight the organisational and professional support
helpful in setting up diverse set-up and special skills required by an educator in order to
successfully adapt under this diverse set-up. The succinct discussion of all these points will
help to analyse the importance of inclusion and how this inclusive practice can be applied on
diverse settings.

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Part 1
Current Funding
According to the New South Wales (NSW) Department of Education (2018), the
disability and inclusive program helps to generate support finding and to help children with
special needs in community to take part in early childhood education program like any other
health children. The overview of the inclusive program is provided below
Program
components
Brief Description Key dates
Introduction of
strong equity
funding
$6,600 per year funding for children with
special needs and disability and are
registered under community pre-school for
600 hours per hour
Collection of data on
28th of February to 27th
of March 2018 and
payment on April
2018
Additional fund
raising for
children who
demands high
need support in
order to cope with
their disability
This mainly includes emergency funding for
the children with special needs and demands
high end support in order to indulge into
educational practice.
Application is
accessed in order to
align with the overall
payment schedule
during the tenure of
April 2018
Minor capital
funding
This funding helps to support specialised
organisational requirement like resources and
tools in order to support children with special
needs
This concept is in
developmental stage
and will be applied on
2019

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Table: Overview of the funding program in NSW government
(Source: NSW Department of Education, 2018)
The principal funding is used to recruit teachers and educational officers for
implementing personalised learning and support for the children with disability or special
needs in their class rooms. The funding is also given in order to provide assistance to the
classroom teachers. This assistance will be given through the application of professional
learning and to liaise with the parents, family of carers and other employees of the schools.
Integration funding support of NW is provided to deliver additional support to the students
with moderate to high level of support requirement. This additional support is helpful to easy
adaptation of the children with special needs or physical disability under NSW public school
set-up (NSW Department of Education, 2018).
The government of Australia also has National Disability Insurance Scheme for the
children with special needs. A child is a participant under NDIS scheme of section 28 of the
NDIS Act published on 2013. However, as per the provision, the documentation of the
evidence, highlighting child's disability is not required. NDIS mainly covers the medication
and health-related expenses. Inclusion Support Programme (ISP) also list under the current
funding for early childhood care for the children with special needs and any form of physical
disability. ISP mainly promotes tailored interventions (Australian Government Department of
Education and Training, 2017).
National Quality Standards for Inclusive Education
There are 7 distinct standards under Australian Children’s Education and Care Quality
Authority (2017). The 1st domain is educational program and practice and it is directed