Melbourne International School (MIS) caters for a range of children with special needs. It is for students from 3 years of age through to 18 years.

Using the Visual and Performing Arts Programme to meet the individual learning needs of our students. This child-centred approach is where our teachers use the power of concrete experiences mediated through dance, drama, music and visual arts as a way to immerse our students in a deeply engaging learning environment. This approach enables us to achieve literacy, numeracy and living skill goals to further facilitate each student’s development more readily. The individual needs of our students informed the construction of the programme and this curriculum model.

To ensure the successful implementation of the Visual and Performing Art Programme in the classroom, we have a teacher and a teacher’s assistant who work closely together to address the daily needs of students. This team-based approach to learning underpins our approach to providing many services for our students.

MIS also supports its students with a range of services delivered by our therapy team. This includes specially qualified members of staff such as an Art Therapist, Music Therapist, Occupational Therapist and Speech and Language Therapist with access to a Physiotherapist and Drama Therapist when needed. These staff members closely work and plan alongside our teaching staff to deliver services in line with what is known as an integrated services delivery model. This we believe is a very powerful way to address the highly individualised needs of our students. In such a model highly experienced and dedicated professionals plan the appropriate strategies to support each student according to their needs. There is an exceptional level of commitment and passion displayed by our members of staff in continually seeking to improve the quality of our services available to our students.