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National Youth Disability Summit – What young people said – Inclusive education

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“A culture cannot be changed only by educating staff. Schools would be much more inclusive if my fellow classmates knew what disability is, and that it’s not a bad thing, or something to make fun of.”

In discussions on inclusive education, young people with disability talked about the need for more flexible, student led approaches to education. They talked about access to inclusive education as a human right, and the need to normalise disability in classrooms for non-disabled students, to reflect the reality of disabled people, and reduce discrimination in other areas of society.

A plane flying over a Canberra skyline next to an orange speech bubble with text reading: "What young people said".

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