You are sitting in the center lunch room with the other staff.  Someone reading a newspaper reads the following article 'Deaf lesbian couple decide to have deaf child' (read the article here: https://jme.bmj.com/content/28/5/283 opens in new window). As work colleagues, the lunch room is relaxed and a conversation about the article happens around you. In this conversation, the conflicting, and complex rights and needs of the child are interrogated from personal and professional standpoints and perspectives.

Your colleagues turn to you and ask for your opinion.

As you are currently completing professional development concerning the rights and needs of children in early learning, you consider this article from the perspective of the rights of the child.  You reflect how important some 'children may require or benefit from additional supports or adaptations to participate fully and be included in early years services'. You reflect on how this article is about the rights and needs of individuals and groups in our society and how these rights inform your everyday responsibilities as an educator, and your relationships with children, their parents and caregivers, staff, and the communities where the early learning center is located in.  In this community, you know there are:

• children with disability or developmental delay
• children experiencing physical, medical or mental health conditions
• Aboriginal children
• Torres Strait Islander children
• children from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds
• refugees
• gender-diverse or gender-fluid children, and children from lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or intersex (LGBTI) families
• children with complex social, emotional or behavioural needs
• children who are gifted
• children experiencing social, economic or geographic disadvantage
• children at risk of abuse, neglect or family violence
• children in institutional settings, including residential care, refuges, hospitals or migration detention.

 

ASSESSMENT STRUCTURE

You're assessment should follow this structure. 

1. Response to article 
2. Example of everyday practice 

Answer rating: 100% (QA)

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