Personal Narrative: My Experience With Coburg Special Development School

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I am undertaking my early inclusion practicum with Coburg Special Development School for a period of 10 days. Coburg Special Development School is a dynamic special development school situated in the Northern Western Region of Melbourne, and caters for families from the northern and western suburbs, from a range of socio-economic and ethnic background. Students attending the school generally reside within the school designated transport area. The school currently caters for 60 students age 5 to 18 years old with a primary diagnosis of developmental delay or intellectual disability. The school employs 30 experienced staff working directly with children and families, which includes the speech and occupational therapists to support the students …show more content…

It integrates a student’s developmental needs across the major developmental domains. In Coburg Special Development School, some students have never been diagnosed by professionals, thus the school employed the speech and occupational therapists to support the students and classroom teachers on daily basis. The onside speech and occupational therapists who work collaboratively with classroom teachers, and share the responsibilities of evaluating, planning and implementing services to students. As all members of the team teach, learn and work together to accomplish a common set of intervention goals for the students and their families. The families are able to access the supports they needed through the school …show more content…

Teachers in Coburg SDS believed that students need guidance and structure and all student can and should improve how well they do at school with support, they show genuine care for the student, aware and empathetic to their thoughts and feels. Teachers initiate and sustain positive interactions by directing positive attention towards the students and providing encouragement and emotional support as well as recognizing and being sensitive to students strengths, needs. In responding to inappropriate behaviors, the school adopted the problem-solving approach, which including prediction informed by analysis of the challenging behaviors, consistency to ensure and build staff consensus to implement behavior management practice in the same manner, and assessment to monitor the outcomes that may be used in decision