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    Negotiated Education Plan

    By Lauren Djakovac

    What is it? The Process


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    The Negotiated Education Plan (NEP) is a plan used in DECS Pathologist. Students who go to school from preschool do not
    schools, which sets out the educational needs, background necessarily have to be reassessed by Guidance or Speech
    information, strengths, and learning goals of a student with a Services.
    disability. An NEP is an overview of the child’s progress in their
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    because students with learning difficulties require additional with Disability Policy’ is made by the Guidance Officer and/or
    support in order to participate and succeed at school. Speech Pathologist.
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    and meet with the Guidance Officer to discuss the results.
    Why is it used?
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    The purpose of the NEP is to enable teachers, parents and support
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    officers to determine the need and learning priorities of the
    caregivers, support services and agencies or preschool as
    student, and jointly develop appropriate curriculum based on
    appropriate.
    the South Australian Curriculum Standards and Accountability
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    information sharing - taking into consideration the needs of the and the NEP is established.
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    If a child is identified as having a disability, a District Disability


    Who is it for? Coordinator will work with the school to decide the appropriate
    level of support needed for the student – this determines the
    An NEP is developed and implemented if a student has a disability amount of funding a school will receive to support the strategies
    described by the ‘2007 DECS Eligibility Criteria’ (Intellectual, and goals of the NEP.
    Global Developmental Delay, Speech and/or Language, Vision,
    Hearing, Physical, Autistic Disorder / Asperger Disorder), and is If not verified with a disability
    compulsory for students identified as eligible for support under
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    maintained of all students with disabilities as verified by guidance internal school support.
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    levels of support. the learning needs of the student.
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    The database is used to report to schools, lists of students with
    disabilities prior to the enrolment census conducted each school
    term. The information contained in the reports can be used by
    schools for checking and updating disabilities information.
    According to DECS, there are currently approximately 14,000
    students on this database and the majority should have a NEP. “...to enable teachers, parents and
    A child is identified as having a disability through a range of support officers to determine the
    assessments. These assessments can be made at any age, and
    are generally conducted by a DECS Education Psychologist or need and learning priorities of the
    Guidance Officer when either the school or parent raises a concern
    regarding the child’s abilities. student...”

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    Who is involved and responsible?
    “...assessments can be made
    The development of the NEP is the responsibility of the school.
    This is done in conjunction with the child’s parents or caregivers,
    at any age, and are generally
    the classroom teacher, staff members who work closely with the
    child and any service providers who may come to the school to
    conducted by a DECS Education
    support the child. Psychologist or Guidance Officer
    The NEP is part of school recording and reporting and meetings when either the school or parent
    are held regularly to discuss and update a child’s NEP.
    raises a concern regarding the
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    special equipment, transport arrangements, curriculum
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    / topics the student has been doing in class, how they are coping,
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    social, emotional and behavioural issues.
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    progress. This overview of the child’s progress ultimately helps
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    Depending on the student’s academic level, in many situations,
    - Referral forms
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    their normal class among the other students and class teacher, - Management plans
    completing the same work as the rest of the class. - Forms to access services
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    disabilities.
    What does the NEP include?
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    An NEP should identify:
    A student with a disability may not require an NEP throughout
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    their whole time at school. After examining the student’s progress,
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     the school or parents can request the child to be re-assessed to
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