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Boon, Helen Joanna; Pagliano, Paul; Brown, Lawrence; Tsey, Komla – Journal of Policy and Practice in Intellectual Disabilities, 2012
Recent weather-related disasters (i.e., floods, fires) impacting Australia may potentially increase in frequency and severity as a result of predicted climate variability. The dearth of literature pertaining to school emergency response planning for vulnerable students with disabilities (including those with intellectual disabilities) when such…
Descriptors: Natural Disasters, Emergency Programs, Guidelines, Foreign Countries
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Boon, Helen J.; Brown, Lawrence H.; Tsey, Komla; Speare, Richard; Pagliano, Paul; Usher, Kim; Clark, Brenton – International Journal of Special Education, 2011
Human systems have to adapt to climate change and the natural disasters predicted to increase in frequency as a result. These disasters have both direct and indirect health effects. Certain groups, the poor, the elderly, children and those with disabilities are set to be more seriously impacted by disasters because of their greater inherent…
Descriptors: Evidence, Inclusion, Natural Disasters, Disabilities