1. Creating Access for People with Complex Communication Needs

2. Educating school staff to educate their students

3. Project: Communication Rights Australia
Disability Discrimination Legal Service
RMIT

4. How do most of us communicate?
Where do we learn to communicate?

5. What happens if we can't speak or hear?

6. What are our chances of getting an education if we can't communicate?

7. What are your chances of getting employment if you don't have an education?

8. What are your chances of having any type of social personal relationship if you can't communicate?

9. How many people are we talking about?
People might be:
Deaf
Autistic
Severe Cerebral Palsy
Psychosocial Disability-Selective Mutism
Severe Language Disorders
Stroke
………..

10. What can be done?

13. Teaching Teachers Website/Application Resources Disability Information
Capacity
Obligations
Human Rights
Disability Discrimination Act
Equal Opportunity Act
Right to Augmentative and Alternative Communication UNCRPD

14. Challenges No time No money Poor Attitudes Engagement of experts
Staff training
Poor Attitudes
Capacity
Inclusion

15. Will we succeed ?

16. Contact details: Website: www.communitylaw.org.au
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