Holistic autism course most valuable

Rebecca Vukovic

By Rebecca Vukovic
Published June 6, 2016

Emma Dunlop has done her fair share of postgraduate study, but she believes studying for her Graduate Diploma of Teaching Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder is the most valuable course she’s completed to date.

A teacher at Hume Valley School in Victoria, Dunlop teaches a class of eight to 11-year-olds with mild intellectual disabilities ...

This story appeared in the June 2016 edition of Australian Teacher Magazine.

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