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The SWANs research was conducted as a partnership between the Victorian Department of Education and Training and a team of researchers at the University of Melbourne. That partnership was extended to include Victorian, and later South Australian and West Australian, policy leaders, schools, and teachers who took a close interest in every aspect of the design and validation of assessment materials, reporting formats, links to curriculum materials, and support advice. This chapter describes the process of the design of an integrated program of support for teachers of students with additional needs, and the way that program was checked and negotiated with teachers and school leaders at critical stages in the research. The examples given in the chapter describe the design of an assessment of functional communication skills for students with additional learning needs.
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Woods, K., Griffin, P. (2020). Functional Communication Competence for Students with Additional Needs. In: Griffin, P., Woods, K. (eds) Understanding Students with Additional Needs as Learners. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-56596-1_3
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