KAO Sahak Vatey is a teacher at the Australian Centre for Education. She received her B.Ed in TEFL from the Institute of Foreign Languages. She was a presenter at the 20th and 21st CamTESOL Conference on the topics of speaking performance and group learning in ESL classrooms. Her commentary and policy brief examine internship opportunities for secondary students and community-based respite care for caregivers of children with intellectual disabilities respectively.