How Assess to Lift Supports Learners

Assess to Lift is committed to providing learning support to every student that enrols into a course with us.

We want for every student’s learning journey to be outstanding in every respect. This is why we assess every student’s individual learning needs and put arrangements in place to support each and every student that enrols into a course with us.

The term reasonable adjustment refers to adjustments made in training and assessment to enable students with disabilities or other needs to participate fully and succeed on the same basis as another student.

Reasonable adjustments can be made in response to a student’s:

       ·   Language, literacy, numeracy or digital skill levels

      ·   Disability or health condition

      ·   Cultural background

       ·   Indigenous background (Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people)

     ·     Other circumstances that would otherwise prevent a student from succeeding on the same basis as another student

Yes. Every Nationally Recognised Training Program has benchmarks that must be achieved for a student to be deemed competent. If a student lacks the ability to meet these benchmarks, Assess to Lift cannot allow for the student to proceed with their enrolment.

Most reasonable adjustments are made free of charge.

If a reasonable adjustment is requested that comes at significant administration or resource costs, these costs will be passed on to the student/person requesting the adjustments. In the rare instances where this occurs, the student/person requesting the adjustments will be notified of these costs ahead of the enrolment being finalised.

In most cases, a student can complete the enrolment application form which will trigger for appropriate reasonable adjustments to be made on their behalf. This is why we ask that students disclose a disability or any other circumstance that would otherwise prevent them from participating on the same level as another student. The information will be kept confidential and will be used to support the individual student in their learning journey with us.

Students with specific needs can however contact us before booking, provide comments in their enrolment application form, or can talk to their course facilitators and administration staff so that reasonable adjustments can be made.

We are happy to assist students before they commence a course with us by:

        ·  Offering advice on course suitability

        ·  Facilitating meets and greets with the team before a student commits to a course

        · Assisting students with low digital skills to complete the enrolment application form

       ·  Giving students access to paper and electronic versions of learning materials

        · Assisting High Risk Work Licence course students to manage their digital licence application

        ·  Creating or locating Unique Student Identifier (USI) numbers on students' behalf

We are committed to supporting students through their training phase which may include:

    ·     Modifying learning materials by offering large print copies, copies printed on colour paper, image rich versions, audio versions and/or video versions

·  Allowing students to attend theory sessions ahead of their scheduled course, organising additional training days (conditions apply), organising one-on-one mentoring sessions, undertaking maths mentoring sessions, modifying training hours, and/or postponing an assessment at a student's/trainer's request

        ·   Organising meets and greets, allowing a student with a disability to bring a support person or organising additional RTO support staff

       ·   Allowing and encouraging students to stand up, move around, talk and engage with other people and their learning environment (where safe to do so)

      ·   Allowing students to undertake theory based learning activities in outdoor garden areas or in our outdoor classroom

        ·   Modifying practical activities to suit students with a physical disability or injury

Some examples of how students can be supported when undertaking their assessment include:

        ·   Postponement of assessment

        ·   Verbally assessing theory components for forklift licence courses

      ·   Verbally assessing relevant aspects of theory components in white card courses

Some examples of how students can be supported after undertaking their assessment include:

       ·   Assisting students to process their High-Risk Work Licence application

       ·   Alerting jobseekers to potential job opportunities that we are made aware of