Enrolment Guidelines

Admission to Forrest Parade School is governed by the Department of Education’s Students with Disabilities Policy (2016). To be eligible for enrollment, students must satisfy the verification requirements as detailed below.

Criteria for Entry – Early years (preschool to year 3)

  1. Global Developmental Delay confirmed through comprehensive assessment by a paediatrician, and/or psychologist:
  • deficits in intellectual functions (at or below 2nd percentile) confirmed by both clinical assessment and individualised, standardised intelligence testing, or
  • other evidence of failure to meet developmental milestones in several areas of intellectual functioning when individual’s disabilities prevent standardised assessment, or
  • deficits in adaptive functioning that result in failure to meet developmental milestones, below 2nd percentile across majority of functioning, and
  • adaptive functioning deficits indicate significant impairment in several domains – communication, social participation, early learning and development.
  1. Requiring extensive adjustments that are highly individualised, comprehensive and ongoing to allow access to, and participation in the curriculum.

By age 8, sufficient valid and reliable assessment evidence must be compiled to confirm diagnosis, identify education needs and program development options.

Criteria for Entry Preschool to year 12

  1. Evidence of complex needs accompanying a diagnosed disability:
  • deficits in general adaptive functioning (standard score at or below 2nd percentile) that result in failure to meet developmental and socio-cultural standards for personal independence and social responsibility. Those deficits limit functioning in a wide range of activities of daily life.
  1. Extensive adjustments that are highly individualised, comprehensive and ongoing to allow access to and participation in the curriculum are required.
  2. Long documented history of adjustments and support with analysis of progress, and

History of advice and support from multidisciplinary professionals over an extended period of time (i.e. counsellor, therapists, psychologist, psychiatrist, Student Support Advisors).

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