Early Years Reponses Collected Data
This program and tailored it to run specifically in Prep rooms and Childcare Centres and won the Premier’s Award for Disability Action Week. The Program uses a mix of music, games and activities to discover and explore the themes of disability and diversity. All activities are run and developed with a specific focus on early childhood.
This program is designed to allow young students to experience and explore a wide range of disabilities. Instead of just talking about issues like hearing impairment and vision loss, and expecting children to understand and empathise, children can participate in activities that simulate what it is like to live with these disabilities. For example, children will experience physical disabilities through the use of a wheelchair to negotiate an obstacle course in their Centre.
After these disabilities are experienced and explored in the simulated form, the students then have small group discussions with the teachers who facilitate questioning and exploration on a personal level for the students.
Some very interesting responses were communicated by the children creating posters of what they remembered from the actual program. These are analysed to capture student responses through art.
Posters Collected After the Session
