Criteria to access the Ongoing Resourcing Scheme (ORS)

ORS Very high needs students require:

• complete tailoring of teaching and learning programmes in order to provide access to the New Zealand Curriculum, or
• special assistance to engage in all face-to-face communications, or 
• specialist one-to-one intervention at least weekly, and/or specialist monitoring at least once a month together with daily special education support provided by others (for mobility, positioning or personal care; or for needs as a result of a severe disorder of both language use and appropriate social communication).

ORS High needs students require:

• significant tailoring of teaching and learning programmes in order to provide access to the New Zealand Curriculum, or
• specialist teacher contact time of at least half a day per week, or
• specialist one-to-one intervention on average of once a month, and/or specialist monitoring on average of once per school term together with daily special education support provided by others (for mobility, positioning or personal care; or for needs as a result of a severe disorder of both language use and appropriate social communication).

Alternatively, ORS High needs students may have combined moderate needs. This means that they need significant tailoring of most teaching and learning programmes and two other needs that require specialist intervention. Specialist intervention may be by a teacher or other professional and needs to be to help with a moderate hearing impairment, a moderate vision impairment, a moderate physical impairment, or a moderate disorder of both language use and appropriate social communication.