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Ensure the Special Education Grant (SEG) can provide for the assistance that is needed for the actual number of special needs children in each school
Fund special needs units attached to schools to ensure they remain a viable choice for parents of children with special needs
Ensure that all children who have been identified as having a special learning need, have an IEP in partnership with the child, their whanau/family, teachers, and special education professionals
Ensure that blind children, as appropriate, are provided with Braille, low vision, and orientation and mobility instruction, and that deaf children are taught, as appropriate, sign language and other communication skills and techniques

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 Fund schools to meet needs of high and complex needs students with a range of options including intensive counseling

Improve special education services by increasing Ongoing and Reviewable Resourcing Schemes (ORRS) funding for pupils with the highest special education needs, expanding special education schools, and encouraging satellite special education schools

Review the Ongoing Reviewable Resource scheme funding with a view to ensuring that more funding is made available to directly meet the needs of the child as documented through the Individual Education Plan process
Review the student/teacher ratio for Blind and Vision Impaired students from 1:35 towards 1:15
Ensure resources are available to all students with disabilities on an equitable basis
Ensure that the objectives of the New Zealand Sign Language legislation are fully carried out

We support full funding of the educational needs of children with intellectual disabilities

Promote an increase of funding for early identification of children with special needs and disabilities with targeted systematic, intensive and high quality interventions
Include mandatory course content on teaching children and adults with disabilities in all teacher education
Increase funding for Specialist Vision Teachers so that the internationally accepted ratio for teachers to pupil (1:12) is realised. Currently in NZ the ration is 1:37 which is totally unacceptable
Increase funding to the Ongoing Reviewable Resourcing Scheme (ORRS). Currently 1% of students receive some ORRS funding even though we know that one in five New Zealander's have some sort of disability