Table 3.

Discussion papers

First Author (year)	Disability/ impairment	Design	Level of Evidence	Population	Setting	Aims	Key Findings	Conclusions/recommendations	Category
de Plevitz, L. (2006)	General Disability	Discussion paper; policy analysis	VII	Antidiscrimination law versus criteria for Indigenous students sent to special schooling	Australia	To argue that criteria developed for the allocation to special schooling may constitute indirect racial discrimination against Indigenous students	Education authorities could be liable despite unintentional effects; need for class allocation assessment by Indigenous educators.	National standards could be developed against which the reasons for placing students in special classes could be tested for their reliance on embedded cultural expectations and assumptions; need for the collection of national data on special schooling.	A
Gilroy, J. (2010)	General Disability	Policy analysis	VI	Policy documents published 1985- 2010	Australia	To analyze how New South Wales government-administered disability services positions and represents Aboriginal people with disability	Aboriginal people with disability were specialized field within the mainstream service system - 'cultural difference', 'remoteness' and 'vulnerability', but never a political group	The concept Aboriginal people with disability is a 'label' that conceptualizes what is not a normal person with a disability.	A
Cornish, D. (2011)	Hearing	Discussion paper	VII	Aboriginal children	Australia	To discuss link between hearing disability in Aboriginal children, language acquisition, and school performance	Reference to 2010 federal Senate inquiry into Indigenous ear health	Need to improve classroom acoustics in existing schools; police, courts and prisons provide more support for the hearing impaired	Q
Howard, D. (1992)	Hearing	Discussion paper/Tool	VII	Aboriginal children	Australia	To describe a hearing assessment feasible for school use.	Identification of Aboriginal children's hearing loss is important because of the major educational and social consequences of conductive hearing loss.	Aboriginal children's hearing loss is often not identified, in part because of 'masking' due to cultural differences. Simple speech reception game is effective in identifying children with hearing loss (for use by parents and teachers).	R, S
Henderson, I. (1993)	Hearing	observation; personal communication	VI	Aboriginal communities	North QLD & WA Aboriginal communities	To explore mismatch between remote Aboriginal concepts of disability and urban non-Aboriginal institutions	Remote area Aboriginal people have unique concepts of disability, hearing loss and otitis media	Consideration of variations in conceptualizations of disability is necessary in developing solutions	R