https://www.lowvisionary.nz/?p=111 Sun, 06 Feb 2011 22:25:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 https://www.lowvisionary.nz/?p=111&cpage=1#comment-1472 Jane Wed, 18 Mar 2009 02:20:00 +0000 http://www.lowvisionary.nz/?p=111#comment-1472 Hi Robyn
Just stumbled on your site. What a lot of marvellous information you have here.
Working as a teacher aide in special education for 13 years I know all about how kids diagnosed with a disability miss out.
One thing that concerns me at the moment is that I have been told that students ORRS funded and diagnosed with an intellectual disability (this includes autistic students) are not eligible for reader writer help in assessments and exams,
even if they have teacher aide help in the subject assessed and have a good chance of passing with someone reading or writing a bit for them. The most unfair part of it to me, is that if the intellectual disability is fairly minimal but diagnosed and another student appears to have a similar or more severe intellectual disability but it’s not diagnosed then they still can apply for reader writer help.
As a teacher aide we also get told each year that the hours have dropped because our hourly rate increment makes the student’s funding not go as far. This doesn’t seem fair for the students or us that they get less teacher aide time as we get more qualified and experienced. Our union, the NZEI has been asking for years to have our wages centrally funded like teachers or a fund just for our salaries given to schools.
This isn’t going to happen under National though is it?

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