Warringa Park School Success Story

Warringa Park School Empowering Learning in the Classroom using HP DesignJet Z6 series printer

Classrooms across Australia are changing. Teachers are welcoming more students with diverse learning needs than ever before, each requiring clear, predictable and accessible ways to understand their world.

According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, in 2022, 12.1 per cent of children and young people aged nought to 24 had disability, up from 8.3 per cent in 2018.

This has had a profound effect on learning and teaching in classrooms, with 6.6 percent of these children and young people having a learning and understanding disability, up from 4.2 per cent in 2018, and 3.6 per cent a sensory and speech disability, up from 2.6 per cent in 2018.

For schools, this shift means moving beyond traditional teaching approaches and embracing tools that make learning more visual, more structured and more inclusive for every student.

As demand increases for inclusive learning environments for these children and young people, classrooms have had to adapt.

Visual supports in the classroom can help students on the autism spectrum. Abstract concepts, such as time, can be represented in concrete images to make it easier for children to transition between tasks, and enable them to know what’s going to happen next.

These kinds of learning supports also give other students with disability the ability to express themselves without speaking, which can increase independence and spontaneous social interaction.