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These resources are here to help you understand the basics of disability rights in the Australian education system. They include examples and stories that you can learn from and use in your own life. They were co-designed by young people with disability, their families and caregivers.

CYDA has developed these resources with the Australian Government. Links on this page lead to the website for the Australian Department of Education.

A list of all the published resources, including accessible and community language versions, can be found here.

Getting Started: Disability and education

Learn how to support your child with disability in the Australian education system.

This is a resource for parents and caregivers, including culturally and linguistically diverse parents and caregivers, of students with disability.

Find the PDF here

Find the Easy Read version here

Find the Auslan version here

PDF Cover of a document called "Getting Started: Disability and Education" featuring a simple illustration of a blond woman with her hands on the shoulders of a boy using crutches and a man with blue hair standing next to a small black girl with pigtails and a prosthetic leg. Their is a pile of books next to the girl. The illustration sits over blue and yellow shapes and blobs.

Fact sheet: Disability Discrimination Act

Learn about the Disability Discrimination Act in Australia and how it protects the human rights of people with disability.

This resource is for students with disability and their parents and caregivers. 

Find the PDF here

Find the Word version here

A PDF cover of an Australian Government fact sheet about the Disability Discrimination Act 1992. The Australian Government logo featuring a kangaroo and an emu holding up a shield over a wattle tree sits at the top of the page.

Explaining the Disability Standards for Education 2005

Learn about your rights in education and some of the main ideas in the legislation. 

This resource is for students with disability and their parents and caregivers. 

Find the PDF here

Find the summary factsheet here

Find the Easy Read version here

Find the Auslan version here

PDF Cover of a document called "Explaining the Disability Standards for Education" featuring a simple illustration of a teacher talking to four students, one wearing an hijab and one using a wheelchair, over green blue and purple shapes and blobs.

A day at school

Learn about your rights at school and reasonable adjustments.

This resource is for students with disability.

Watch the video here

Watch the video with Auslan here

Still from an animated video with the play button in the middle. A boy and a girl in school uniforms meeting outside a fenced schoolyard. The girl has shoulder length curly pigtails, glasses and brown skin. She has a guide dog in it's harness. The boy has short red hair and fair skin. He is wearing a backpack and using crutches.

Be a disability ally

This video helps students without disability learn how to be inclusive and gives you tips on how to be an all to students with disability.

This resource is for students with and without disability.

Watch the video here

Watch the video with Auslan here

Still from an animated video with the play button in the middle. A boy in a school uniform moving along a pathway using a power wheelchair in front of a fenced yard. The boy has short black hair and brown skin.

Respect at school

Learn about respect and how you should be treated at school as a student with disability.  

This resource is for students with disability and their parents and caregivers. 

Find the PDF here

Find the Easy Read version here

Find the Auslan version here

PDF Cover of a document called "Respect at School" featuring a simple illustration of four teens walking together with their arms around each other's shoulders, over green, blue and purple shapes and blobs.

Our stories: Personal stories of young people with disability in the education system

Learn from, and connect with, the experiences of other students with disability. 

This resource is for students with disability. 

Find the PDF here

Find the Auslan version here

PDF Cover of a document called "Our Stories: Personal experiences of young people with disability in the education system" featuring a simple illustration of three young people, one using a wheelchair, one with a prosthetic leg and one with a cane, over red, blue and purple shapes and blobs.

Milestones and transitions

Learn how you can support your child through times of change and transition in their education. 

This resource is or parents and caregivers. 

Find the PDF here

Find the Easy Read version here

Find the Auslan version here

PDF Cover of a document called "Milestones and transitions" featuring a simple illustration of parents walking with their child over green blue and purple shapes and blobs.

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