ADCET - Australian Disability Clearinghouse on Education and Training

Nominations are now open for the 2025 Accessibility in Action Awards. These awards recognise individuals and teams that have made a significant contribution to advancing accessibility. ADCET is proud to continue The Trevor Allan Award for Excellence in Disability Inclusion and Accessibility. Nominations close: Monday 5 May 2025

Registrations are now open for the upcoming one and a half day Universal Design for Learning (UDL) Symposium 2025, featuring keynote speaker Dr Seán Bracken, a Principal Lecturer at the University of Worcester, UK and leading expert in UDL.

Students undertaking placements during their university degrees often face financial stress and other forms of exclusion, such as ableism, racism, discrimination, and transphobia. Amani Bell, alongside student co-researchers, co-developed solutions to the interconnected challenges of placement poverty and placement exclusion. In this presentation, Amani will focus on the issues and solutions related to ensuring placement inclusion for students with disability. When: Wednesday 30 April 2025

In this interactive webinar, Dr Bret Stephenson will present key findings from his 2024 ACSES Equity Fellowship research project, Centring Equity in Data and AI Governance: Informing Policy to Empower Practice. The research explores institutional policies and practices used in collecting and disclosing students’ personal, and often highly sensitive, data. This webinar highlights the challenges and good practices identified by participants, offering insights to guide ethical and equitable data governance. When: Wednesday 7 May 2025

ADCET welcomes A/Prof Sheelagh Daniels-Mayes for her presentation on BlakAbility, an emerging Indigenous led framework that centres a cultural understanding of disability. Indigenous people with disability frequently encounter both racism and disability-related discrimination. This webinar will discuss how higher education contributes to this disparity as well as discuss potential pathways for transformational change. When: Wednesday 21 May 2025

The ILOTA (Inclusive Learning Opportunities Through AI) podcast series explores the exciting convergence of UDL, AI and accessibility and examines ways in which emerging technologies can be utilised to enhance learning opportunities. In Episode 12, titled Neurodiverse Student Perspectives on Using AI, we are joined by Tiana Blazevic to explore AI and how it can support Neurodiverse students to enhance their learning and studies.

Researchers at the University of Tasmania are examining how disability practitioners can best support students with disability at Australian universities to succeed in their studies. In a 15-minute survey, you can tell us about your experience as a practitioner/disability support staff member in an Australian university, your workload, and share your ideas about what is needed in a qualification for disability practitioners!

Tiana Blazevic presented an informative webinar on the use of specific artificial intelligence study tools that may assist students with ADHD. Additionally, Tiana discussed recent research on the use of AI for students with different learning modalities before showcasing some of the ways that students at all program levels can use AI tools in their academic practice.

In this webinar, presented by Dr Juuso Nieminen, he argued that, as important as it is to ensure access to assessment, it is also crucial to pay attention to how assessment regulates students’ social participation as fully accepted members of higher education.