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Creating an Inclusive Society for Children with a Disability

Creating an Inclusive Society for Children with a Disability

If you’re willing to listen to my nine-year-old daughter, Maia, you are rewarded with cheeky grins, a massive hug and an invitation to play. She’s confident, kind, loving and sociable.

Maia also has a moderate intellectual disability, autism, skeletal dysplasia and a SWAN (Syndrome Without A Name). She’s non-verbal and likely only to climb to the mental capacity of a 10 year old (being told at the assessment that “10 year olds can still be quite smart” was not comforting), but through speech therapy she has an increasing array of words those close to her understand, a considerable Auslan (Australian Sign Language) vocabulary and she brings it together with PECS (Picture Exchange Communication System).