Learning Support Assistants in the ACT will have access to a new training program to help them support students with disabilities and learning challenges.
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00:00Welcome to Evelyn Scott School. We're really excited today to be announcing our first learning
00:14support assistant program here in the ACT. It's the first of its kind in Australia and
00:19it supports learning support assistants to be able to learn and create a career out of
00:24providing support to young people in our schools. We've released an inclusion strategy which
00:29means that we want to make sure that all of our staff, not just teachers and school
00:33leaders but including learning support assistants, have what they need to be able to support
00:37students who might have a disability or learn differently in our ACT public schools.
00:47Providing the universal learning for LSAs is a really good resource because it means
00:53that we can work with other people that are working in similar roles in other schools.
00:58We can consolidate our learning and we can learn tips and tricks to help all of our diverse
01:04learners wherever they need to be. Just like students are individuals, the needs of those
01:09individuals change. So we may have students with disabilities that might need specialist
01:15training for their medical or personal care. We may have students with trauma backgrounds
01:21that need trauma-informed practices and we can also help students with low literacy,
01:27low numeracy or any other needs that they do have in their classes.