Inclusion Support Queensland has developed this calendar for 2020 to support you on your inclusion journey.
This poster supports educators to critically reflect on thier practice as individuals and together as a team.
This poster explores what inclusion may look and feel like for children, families and educators.
This resource is a visual 'snapshot' of inclusion to encourage educators to reflect on inclusive practice.
This resource supports educators to reflect on how their words and actions may be interpreted by others.
This resource supports educators to reflect on how they can work with children and families to provide appropriate opportunities to meet each child’s need for sleep, rest, and relaxation.
This guide aims to assist practitioners to promote children’s resilience and raise community awareness about it more broadly.
Information sheets including: creating inclusive early childhood education and care services, the principles of inclusion, the legislation, leading and implementing change and working with families and service providers.
A position statement that aims to create a vision of high quality inclusive practices in early childhood education and care.
The National Workforce Centre for Child Mental Health has been established the Emerging Minds website to assist professionals and organisations who work with children and/or parents/families to have the skills to identify assess and support children at risk of mental health conditions. Access free training, practice guides, webinars, tools, information and news.
This resource describes what visuals are, briefly explores a range of visual support options and provides some tips to assist with implementing a communication system.
The Working Together Agreement has been developed to support educators to work collaboratively with early childhood intervention practitioners and families to promote early childhood inclusion for young children with developmental delay and/or disability. This free package includes sample letters, checklists, the agreement itself and shared practice standards and guidelines.
Raising Children website explores up-to-date, evidence-based, scientifically validated information about raising children and caring for yourself. This particular link focuses on speech and language delays.
A visual tool to assist educators to reflect on their inclusion journey.
Building Belonging is a comprehensive toolkit of early education resources which includes an ebook, song with actions, educator guide, posters and lesson plans. It is focussed on encouraging respect for cultural diversity and tackling racial prejudice in early childhood settings.
This statement from Early Childhood Australia explains inclusion. It outlines why inclusion is important, and it sets out what is required from everyone involved in the delivery of Early Childhood Education and Care to ensure inclusion of every child.
Aspect Early Intervention Program has produced a series of fact sheets to help educators and parents support children with Autism.
This paper explores some of the characteristics of traditional Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural practices that contribute to effective family functioning, and how these practices can have positive effects on children and communities.
This Inclusion Toolkit for Educators has been written with leading inclusive education experts to assist educators working in school settings to welcome and support learners of all abilities in their classrooms and schools.
Sue Larkey has an array of tip sheets for supporting children with Autism Spectrum Disorder.
This free library provides a newsletter, and access to journal articles, books and other resources for services across Queensland.
GoZen! creates online social and emotional learning programs loved by kids ages 5-15, parents, professionals, and schools. Our mission is to reach 1 million kids with skills to transform stress, anxiety, worry, anger, perfectionism, negativity, and social worry into POWER in the year 2020!
A wonderful guide for understanding the importance of ceremony, Welcome to Country and how to be a welcoming country for the newly arrived.
Motor Active Online is an exercise program delivered online (through Zoom meetings and video sharing), designed for children 4 -17 years of age who have difficulty moving and playing in a coordinated manner, or who would like to increase their levels of physical activity. Motor Active Online provides a fun, unique, non-threatening and inclusive environment for children.
All of us struggle at times to be the patient, calm and positive parents we want to be. This recording will cover how to manage anger and frustration, feelings of isolation or anxiety, managing conflict and looking after your relationship with your partner/s and children.
MyTime is for parents and carers of children with a disability, developmental delay or chronic medical condition. It’s a place for you to unwind and talk about your experiences. It’s a world away from appointments and therapy.
PlayConnect is a free, safe and supported playgroup program for children on the Autism Spectrum, or with developmental delays or behavioural concerns, and thier families. We provide over 40 groups across the country for children aged 0 to 5 years.
This resource supports understanding the typical developmental pathways of children and the typical indicators of trauma at differing ages and stages.
Use the Narragunnawali suite of early learning, primary and secondary curriculum resources to promote reconciliation and to strengthen children and students’ knowledge and understanding of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories, cultures and contributions.
This short animated video explains how and why intergenerational trauma impacts many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
Reconciliation Australia is an independent, not-for-profit organisation. Our vision is for a just, equitable and reconciled Australia. Our purpose is to inspire and enable all Australians to contribute to the reconciliation of the nation.
A resource to help you deliver a quality early learning program for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children. Foundations for Success provides additional guidance to the Early Years Learning Framework and is packed with information, inspiration and good practice advice.
This map attempts to represent the language, social or nation groups of Aboriginal Australia. It shows only the general locations of larger groupings of people which may include clans, dialects or individual languages in a group. It used published resources from 1988-1994 and is not intended to be exact, nor the boundaries fixed.
SNAICC ihas a range of wonderful resources to support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children remain connected to their communities, Country and culture. They have also collated a range of resources to support eductors, families and communities throughout Covid.
As part of State Library’s Indigenous Languages Project, this resource map aims to raise awareness of the diversity of Queensland’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages.
The Care for Kids' Ears campaign has been designed and produced by the Australian Government to increase awareness of ear disease and hearing loss in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.
Aboriginal Studies Press (ASP) is the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies' (AIATSIS) publishing arm and Australia's leading publisher of Australian Indigenous studies. They publish scholarly works, children’s books, biographies, research papers and monographs across a broad range of topics.
Journey into the fascinating world of Australia’s Aboriginal culture with this unique collection of 33 authentic, unaltered Australian Dreamtime indigenous stories, each story brought to you by an Aboriginal storyteller custodian.
Discover a whole world of online learning about Australia’s living landscapes, history and amazing people. All resources matched to the Australian National Curriculum or just use our site to learn more about this amazing Country .
The learning resources available to all students through the NAIDOC website are invaluable for teachers and students.
These cards can be used by individuals and groups as prompts to explore the strengths of First Nations peoples' ways of being, knowing and doing. They invite people to be curious, to learn, to break down and reconstruct current thinking and practice and weave in new ways of working.
This cultural connections booklet has been created to help you and your team engage in some of the key topics surrounding ‘respect of diversity’ and ‘cultural competency’ in the early child hood education and care sector.
The Koori Curriculum is an Aboriginal Early Childhood consultancy that supports early childhood educators to grow their cultural confidence and capacity. We work with educators across all different service types assisting them to embed Aboriginal perspectives in their curriculum and form meaningful relationships with their local Aboriginal community.
The National Centre for Australian Children’s Literature (NCACL) has produced a free database for educators to discover children’s books by and about Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples. The database allows educators to explore a range of children’s books and related teaching resources, helping them get the most out of their current book collection, and identify new books to add to their teaching assets.
The Programs Directory continues to be a searchable database of mental health and wellbeing programs offered by a wide range of providers to schools and early learning services.