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Advisory Centre for Education (ACE)
An independent charity offering free, independent advice to families
on the range of problems children can experience at school.
ACE Centre Advisory Trust
This link gives access to 2 separate
sites:
The Oxford ACE Centre is an independent
charity which provides a focus for the use of technology with the
communication and educational needs of young people with physical
and communication difficulties.
The ACE Centre North is a sister charity to the Oxford ACE Centre.
It provides assistive technology and augmentative communication
services, including assessments and training, to assist individuals
with physical and/or communication difficulties in the North of
England.
Braille for maths
Teaching math to visually impaired children
Contact a Family Every day over sixty children in the UK are born or diagnosed
with a serious disability and the vast majority of them are cared
for at home. Contact a Family (CaF) is the only UK charity
providing support and advice to parents whatever the medical
condition of their child.
Chatback Trust
CHATBACK was set up in 1986 by the present Director, Tom Holloway,
to provide an electronic mail (email) facility for up to 100 schools
in the UK and abroad. Most are special schools, all cater for
children who have some mental or physical difficulty with
communicating. Disabled Living Foundation
Provides free, impartial advice about all types of equipment for
disabled people.
Disability Resources on the Internet
Disability Resources Monthly is an American organisation. Their
website has links to "thousands of the best disability resources on
the Internet". Worth a look. Dyslexia
Action
Formerly known as the Dyslexia Institute this national charity is
the UK's leading provider of services and support for people with
dyslexia and literacy difficulties. They specialise in assessment,
tuition and teacher training. ERIC - Educational Resources Information Centre
Claims to be the world's largest digital library of educational
literature.
Inclusion
Part of the former National Grid for Learning. Inclusion is a free,
searchable catalogue of on-line resources that support teaching
professionals, parents and carers in meeting individual learning
needs.
NASEN
National Association for Special Educational Needs.
Next Generation
Specialist supplier of books and resources that help overcome the
difficulties posed by conditions included within the Specific
Learning Difficulties Profile such as Dyspraxia, Dyscalculia,
Dyslexia, Attention Deficits, etc.
SENteachers.co.uk
This site is dedicated to those
working as Special Educational Needs (SEN) teachers and those who
may seek to recruit and employ them such as; recruitment agencies,
special schools, primary & secondary schools, pupil referral units,
community homes, hospital schools or youth custody centres. Special
Educational Needs Coordinators (SENCo’s) may also find this site of
interest. There is also an online forum where those looking for
jobs, staff, advice & support, as well as wanting to exchange ideas
and resources with those in similar positions, can do so freely
anytime.
TFH
TFH is a company selling a variety of items to serve the needs of
children and adults with special needs. They specialise in "special
needs toys".
Click the link on the left hand panel to "Special Needs and
Inclusion". The
CALL Centre
Communication Aids for Language and Learning, Edinburgh
University. In this website you will find information, guidance and
resources on how Information and Communication Technology (ICT) can
make a major impact on the education of children and people with
disabilities or special educational and communication needs.
CENMAC
The Centre for Micro Assisted Communication. CENMAC provides support
and advice on using Information Technology to improve the
communication and learning of children and young people with
physical disabilities. Closing the Gap
Computer Technology in Special Education and Rehabilitation Crick Computing
Software for literacy and access & communication. Dyslexia.com
Dyslexia.Com is a site which aims to help people with dyslexia make the most of their
abilities by using technology. There is advice on the choice and use of a wide range of
software and hardware as well as other more general advice.
Inclusive Technology
Supplier of educational software and hardware to support all sorts
of inclusion in schools. Lots of their stuff can be purchased with
ELCs. REM (Rickitt Educational Media)
Education software RESOURCE
Education
Software and hardware, primarily for schools. SEMERC
Granada learning and SEMERC software, hardware and info for special needs in education. Sight and Sound
Computer solutions for the visually impaired. TextHELP! Web Site
The home of the Read&Write toolbar designed to help improve reading
and writing skills both for children and adults. Topologika
Software for education - quite a few useful titles for SEN. Widgit
Well established company specialising software solutions for special
needs. Xavier Specialists in computer based
teaching aids for English language, early learning and dyslexia.
Asperger's
Syndrome Resources
Useful source of information about AS. Autism
Independent UK
Formerly the Autism Society. This UK charity provides support advice
and training for people with autism and those who work with them. Dyslexia TV
This site aims to provide materials that educate, motivate and
inspire those with dyslexia. Amongst other things there are links to
biographies of more than 100 prominent dyslexics of the past and
present. British
Dyslexia Association
The BDA is the national organisation for dyslexia in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Dyspraxia Foundation
Dyspraxia Foundation, which aims to help and inform parents of
dyspraxic children - also useful for teachers. Educational
Kinesiology and Brain Gym
Educational Kinesiology teaches specific movements of the body that can improve mind
function. It uses techniques such as repatterning, which is the integration of the left
and right hemispheres of the brain through specific movements; stress release techniques;
and balancing the energy/meridian system of the body. Kurzweil
Educational Systems
Kurzweil produce highly regarded reading, writing, and learning
software for students with dyslexia, attention
deficit disorder, or other learning difficulties,
including physical impairments or language learning
needs (also see entry under
Visual & Auditory
Impairment) LD Resources
Etext on line (books on line)
The LD Resources web site has
been providing online information for people with learning disabilities and
people who work with people with learning disabilities since 1995. Makaton
The Makaton Vocabulary Development Project uses symbols and sign
language for children and others who cannot use speech. National Autistic Society site
Lots of information about Autistic
Spectrum Disorders. There is help and advice for people with ASD,
teachers, family members, employers and journalists. Spellaroo Presented with fun cartoons, Spellaroo is a motivatingway to help Key Stage 3 pupils with their spelling. Particularly appropriate forSpecial Needs pupils, Spellaroo asks pupils to pick out
the incorrectlyspelled word from a sentence,
encouraging pupils to self-check their own work. Words Worldwide
and KeySpell
Words Worldwide Ltd (W3) is a specialist
company, primarily providing assistance to people with reading and
writing difficulties (e.g. those with dyslexia and visual
impairment). They can also help those with physical problems who
find it difficult to use a conventional keyboard or mouse.
Blind
Links
A collection of weblinks of value to those with
visual impairment and those working with them. College of
Optometrists in Vision Development
Non-profit making association. Their website has
lots of interesting and useful information about the
role of vision in learning and the difficulties that
children may encounter when they have visual
problems. Deafsign
This is a superb resource devoted to deafness and British Sign
Language (BSL). There is a wealth of information of interest to anyone who has any
interaction with deaf people (ie all of us), forums, games, a variety of interactive
finger spelling translators (eg. you can type in a phrase and see the sequence of finger
spelling or set the keyboard to show the hand sign for the letter you type). Of course,
BSL is much more than simply spelling words and there is information on the site about a
BSL teaching pack, which includes a book and CDRom. Kurzweil
Educational Systems
Kurzweil produce highly regarded
text
to speech software for those with visual impairment. National Library
for the Blind
Gateway site for library and information services
for visually impaired people. NLB is in the process
of merging with RNIB (see below); the merger should
be complete by April 2007. New York Institute
for Special Education
This Long established school for blind and visually
impaired pupils in New York has some very useful
section on its website, such as the Blindness
Resource Centre. RNIB
The UK's Royal National Institute for the Blind. Sight
& Sound Technology
A company specialising in solutions for the visually
impaired and for those with reading difficulties.
School
Psychology Resources Online - Sandra Steingart,Ph.D.
An excellent links site for researching information about psychology in education. There
is a large section dealing with specific disorders and lots of links to other useful
relevant sites. Sandra Steingart is an Ed.Psych. in Baltimore.
Ethnic Minority Achievement
EMAonline
Newsletter and resources for teachers, developed by
Birmingham, Leeds and Manchester Local Authorities,
supported by DfES.
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