Educational Needs Profile

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Educational Needs Profile

• For Learners with Disabilities
• Jeanette McMullan

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Educational Needs ProfilePart 1

• Educational Needs Profile Defined
• Background Information

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Describing the degree of need

• The Educational Needs Profile is a method used by
  school communities to measure the degree of
  adjustments, curriculum accommodations and
  provisions and/or supports that a learner with
  disabilities needs to .

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Influences

• World Health Organisation (WHO)
• DDA - Disability Standards for Education (Draft
  2004)
• Current SA practice, trials and research

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WHO Influence

• Disability - an umbrella term for impairments,
  activity limitations, participation restrictions,
  disease and/or health conditions
• WHO developed the ICF a tool for describing and
  costing the impact of disability on participation
  in life activities
• WHO wanted to develop common terminology to
  describe the needs of a person with a
  disability to enhance functional capacity and
  improve performance

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WHO Key principles

• Diagnosis/labels do not predict service needs or
  provide information for planning and management
• Disease and health conditions are placed on an
  equal footing
• A persons capacity is increased and performance
  maximised when barriers are removed and
  interventions or treatment provided

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Influence of Disability Standards for Education

• A learners needs are described by the degree
  of adjustments required to maximise opportunities
  and outcomes
• The Standards gives rights to learners with
  disabilities to
• Specialised services needed for participation in
  educational activities
• Reasonable adjustments to achieve intended
  learning outcomes

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Influence of Disability Standards for Education
(DDA)

• The Standards cover the areas of
• Enrolment
• Participation
• Curriculum Development, accreditation and
  delivery
• Student Support Services
• Elimination of harassment and victimisation
• www.dest.gov.au - education/publications

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DECS Trials and Research

• Builds on and reforms current practice RCADIHV
  plus district allocations
• Previous trials conducted by A. Murray across a
  range of school sites
• Term 2 research project examined the allocation
  of additional support by districts to schools

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Educational Needs Profile Part 2

• The Construct of the profile
• Whats happening
• Where to next

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Main Principles underpinning ENP

• To move from descriptions of disability to
  descriptions of need
• To move towards a more congruent system of
  identifying need and for providing support to a
  targeted group
• To place the process of identifying needs and the
  provision of support as a partnership between the
  school, parents and services

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Questions for Determining educational need

• What is a persons level of functioning
  cognitive, social, physical ?
• What interventions maximise participation?
• What are the intended outcomes of the
  intervention?
• Can we assess and measure improvements?

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Construct ENP

• School Community Adjustments and Considerations
• This information provides the site with a context
  for considering the needs of a a learner with
  disabilities
• Curriculum Provisions and Specialised Support
  Programs
• There are two parts
• Intended outcome of the Targeted Support Program
• What the learner requires i.e., indicators of the
  degree of curriculum accommodations

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The ENP Areas of Need

• Provisions of Curriculum Support
• Expands on the current model and has 9 provisions
  that describe the intended program outcome and
  learning requirements
• Specialised Support Programs
• Four levels in each of the following
• Health and Personal Care
• Physical Access
• Social Competencies
• Maximising Safety
• Communication

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Educational Needs Profile

• Handout Overview page
• O/H Overview
• O/H - examples

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Ongoing Research and profiling

• Research - Term 4 - I LoS
• All new learners where I LoS is being considered
• All learners who have long term very high needs