The Inclusion Library
Welcome to the Inclusion Library — a growing collection of free, practical resources created to support families, teachers, and students with disabilities as they navigate primary and high school.
Each guide is simple, supportive, and grounded in real experience, designed to make inclusion feel possible — not overwhelming.
Here, you’ll find tools that build confidence, connection, and a genuine sense of belonging.
Where support builds confidence, and confidence builds belonging.
How to Use the 10-Point Checklist in 15 Minutes
Take a breath. You can do this. Let’s walk through it together.
This short guide walks you through how to use the 10-Point High School Transition Checklist in under 15 minutes — helping you move from “I don’t know where to start” to simple, confident action.
It breaks the process down into small, manageable steps so you can support your child without feeling overwhelmed.
The full Checklist is still available exclusively to newsletter subscribers — and it’s the perfect companion to this guide.
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Beyond The School Gate
Because belonging grows in the moments between home and school.
Beyond The School Gate is a gentle guide designed to help families think about life outside of school — the friendships, interests, routines, and small moments that help children feel connected and confident in their world.
For many students with disabilities, school can take up so much energy that the social and emotional side of life gets pushed aside. But what happens after school matters just as much as what happens inside the classroom.
This guide helps families:
- explore activities that nurture confidence and independence
- find social opportunities that feel safe, fun, and genuinely inclusive
- understand why after-school routines can reduce overwhelm
- strengthen connection through shared experiences
- build a sense of belonging beyond academics
It’s a practical, heart-led resource that encourages children to discover who they are outside of expectations — and reminds families that inclusion doesn’t end at 3 p.m.
The Familiar Faces Plan
Because every child deserves someone who feels safe on day one.
The Familiar Faces Plan is a gentle, practical guide designed to help students with disabilities start high school with confidence by making sure they know at least one friendly, familiar person before they walk through the gates.
For so many children with disabilities, the hardest part of transitioning to high school isn’t the workload — it’s the fear of walking into a completely new environment where nothing and no one feels safe yet.
A familiar face can change everything.
This guide helps families and teachers:
- identify who a child already knows — and who they feel safe with
- find links between schools, classes, playgrounds, and communities
- build connection early through meet-ups, introductions, and shared activities
- reduce first-day anxiety by creating predictable social anchors
- strengthen belonging by making sure students don’t have to navigate alone
The Familiar Faces Plan gives families the tools to prepare early, build confidence gently, and make high school feel less overwhelming — and far more welcoming.
Because no child should have to walk into high school feeling invisible, alone, or unsure who they can turn to.
Strengths in Focus
Because every child deserves to see what’s strong about them - not just what’s hard
Strengths in Focus is a supportive, reflective guide that helps students with disabilities recognise their strengths, understand who they are, and feel proud of what they bring to school — long before high school begins.
Many children with disabilities spend so much of their early schooling hearing about what they can’t do.
Not because anyone wants to discourage them, but because their identity often becomes wrapped up in supports, challenges, reports, and adjustments.
This guide gently shifts the focus back to what truly matters:
who they are, what they’re good at, what they enjoy, and what helps them thrive.
Inside, families and students will:
- explore strengths across learning, social skills, interests, routines, and daily life
- celebrate the qualities that make each child unique and capable
- complete a strengths worksheet together to share with their new high school
- start meaningful conversations using “I think you’re good at…” prompts
- identify strengths the child wants to grow — and small strategies to get there
Strengths in Focus is more than a worksheet — it’s a moment for families to pause, breathe, and see their child clearly.
It helps students enter high school feeling valued, capable, and understood — not defined by what they struggle with, but empowered by what they can do.
Because when students see their strengths, everything else becomes possible.