Keeping the Student at the Centre: a Support Planning Approach that Works

Person-centred planning is a process that facilitates inclusion of individuals with disabilities into natural environments and communities which in turn helps to connect them with mainstream society and fosters a greater move towards inclusion and realisation of life goals.

In this approach, individuals are given more input into the services and support they receive, they are able to build confidence and strength, and have opportunities to take a more proactive role in the control of their lives.

In this VDEI On-Demand Presentation Dr Nancy Salem-Hartshorne discusses person-centred planning and how it can be used to supplement and enrich evaluations and assessments.  

Person-centred planning can motivate people to optimise their strengths rather than being defined by their weaknesses or disabilities. The student-centred support team focuses on the  individuals with disabilities and their needs by putting them in charge of defining the direction for their lives, not on the systems that are set up to serve them.

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Please note – Victorian Department of Educationstaff can access this professional learning offering free of charge. Enter your @education.vic.gov.au email address during the registration process to ensure the registration fee is waivered.

Participants will learn:

• what person-centred planning means
• how person-centred planing can supplement and enrich evaluations
• the best strategies to use in person-centred planning 

Nancy Salem-Hartshorne, PhD is Professor of Psychology at Delta College, Michigan. She lectures on multi-sensory impairments such as deafblindness following a personcentred planning approach.

Professor Salem-Hartshorne focuses on cognitive development, evaluation and assessment as well as strategies and procedures that facilitate inclusion of individuals with disabilities into natural environments and communities.

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This On-Demand presentation  is  delivered in spoken English with captioning

Participants who successfully complete this On-Demand Presentation will receive a certificate noting 2 hours of professional learning.