In its Framework for Improving Student Outcomes 2.0, Victoria’s public education system emphasises that learning and wellbeing are inherently linked and sit at the core of the school improvement cycle. The following insights and tips, in Becoming a Champion for Neurodivergent Students, reflect the voices of neurodivergent government school students and recent school leavers, including Disability Inclusion ambassadors, complemented by the perspectives of neurodivergent government school teachers and parents/carers.
They have been designed to assist school teaching teams with the culture change opportunity offered through the Disability Inclusion Reform and directly assist government schools to activate the learning and wellbeing pillars of the Autism Education Strategy. These tips are predominantly geared toward secondary school, but many will be relevant to combined, primary, and specialist schools as well.