ARC MIA - Leveling the playing field: Starting with the School Playground, (Lead USyd), DP140101792

Funding or Partner Organisation: Australian Catholic University (Australian Catholic University Limited Partnership Fund)
Macquarie University
University of New South Wales
Australian Research Council (ARC Discovery Projects)

Start year: 2014

Summary: This project aims to demonstrate the effectiveness of simple, cost-effective programs for changing the way parents and teachers view manageable risk-taking for children with disabilities and increasing the level of responsibility that children take for their own actions. The well-being of all children with disabilities is at risk and the gap continues to widen. New programs, such as the National Disability Insurance Scheme, will place increasing demands on young people with disabilities. Innovative approaches are desperately. Such programming must begin early, by including children in an age-appropriate ways and simultaneously addressing the issues of adults who have the most significant influence: parents and teachers.

Keywords: children with disabilities, risk taking, cost-effectiveness

FOR Codes: Health Economics, Allied Health Therapies (excl. Mental Health Services), Health economics

Acknowledgement of Country

UTS acknowledges the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, the Boorooberongal people of the Dharug Nation, the Bidiagal people and the Gamaygal people, upon whose ancestral lands our university stands. We would also like to pay respect to the Elders both past and present, acknowledging them as the traditional custodians of knowledge for these lands.